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Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
64
Itemized grants FY2024
56
Organizations funded FY2023
30%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$908k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$140,000
Organizations funded a year
51 to 57
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$17M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
EnvironmentFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving50$898k30%
FY202356$946k30%
FY202251$765k43%
FY202157$817kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$574kArts & Culture$573kYouth Development$562kHuman Services$305kFood & Nutrition$96kHealth$93kHousing & Shelter$75kPublic Benefit$63kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 62 grantees
All grantees of Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Essex Art Center Inc$271,250427%
Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School Inc$200,00031%
Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation Inc$176,00045%
Esperanza Academy Inc$123,50041%
Immigrant City Archives$121,000322%
Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc$112,50021%
Youth Development Organization Inc$100,00023%
Discovery Museum Inc$92,50041%
Project Adventure Inc$74,70031%
Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy$72,00040%
UTEC Inc$65,25040%
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc$65,00021%
Squashbusters Inc$62,50011%
Appalachian Mountain Club$60,00020%
Essex County Habitat for Humanity Inc$53,00042%
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc$50,00010%
Lazarus House Inc$47,70040%
Hurricane Island Outward Bound School$43,75031%
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Haverhill Inc$38,00041%
Project Home Again$32,50035%
Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc$30,00041%
Bradford Christian Academy Inc$30,00030%
Project Citizenship Inc$30,00021%
Lawrence Family Development Inc$28,00020%
Bread and Roses Heritage Committee Inc$27,000472%
Berklee College of Music Inc$26,50040%
Lowell House Inc$24,00010%
The Center for Independent Documentary Inc$23,00020%
Endicott College$22,50040%
Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc$20,00010%
Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc$18,50031%
Latino STEM Alliance$15,00015%
Haverhill Historical Society$15,000114%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$13,00030%
Lafayette College$12,50040%
Harvey Girls Inc$12,00027%
Ruths House Inc$12,00013%
Greater Lowell Family YMCA$10,00010%
Commonwealth Land Trust Inc$10,00010%
Challenge Unlimited Inc$10,00011%
Dwelling House of Hope Inc$10,00016%
Merrimack Valley Dream Center Inc$10,00015%
Merrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc$8,50031%
Essex County Greenbelt Association$8,00030%
City Lights Inc$7,500123%
Lowell Transitional Living Center Inc$5,00010%
Merrimack Valley Project Inc$5,00015%
School Year Abroad Inc$4,00040%
Bread & Roses Housing Inc$2,500119%
Project Play2learn Corp$2,5001n/a
Day Dreaming Organization Inc$2,00013%
New Mexico Land Conservancy$1,25010%
Foundation Dario Inc$1,00022%
Elevated Thought Inc$1,00010%
Cloud Forest School Foundation$75030%
Bread & Roses Inc$50010%
Village Food Hub$5001n/a
Shore Country Day School$50010%
The Pike School Inc$50020%
The Trustees of Reservations$25010%
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc$25010%
St Josephs Indian School$1801n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 59 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEssex Art Center Inc: $271,250 over 4y, 27% of budgetNotre Dame Cristo Rey High School Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWindrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation Inc: $176,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetEsperanza Academy Inc: $123,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetImmigrant City Archives: $121,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetFamily Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc: $112,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetYouth Development Organization Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetDiscovery Museum Inc: $92,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetProject Adventure Inc: $74,700 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGovernor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy: $72,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUTEC Inc: $65,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMerrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSquashbusters Inc: $62,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEssex County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $53,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetGreater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLazarus House Inc: $47,700 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHurricane Island Outward Bound School: $43,750 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Greater Haverhill Inc: $38,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetProject Home Again: $32,500 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBradford Christian Academy Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetProject Citizenship Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLawrence Family Development Inc: $28,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBread and Roses Heritage Committee Inc: $27,000 over 4y, 72% of budgetBerklee College of Music Inc: $26,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLowell House Inc: $24,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Center for Independent Documentary Inc: $23,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEndicott College: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetProject Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMerrimack Repertory Theatre Inc: $18,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLatino STEM Alliance: $15,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetHaverhill Historical Society: $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLafayette College: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHarvey Girls Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetRuths House Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGreater Lowell Family YMCA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommonwealth Land Trust Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChallenge Unlimited Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDwelling House of Hope Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetMerrimack Valley Dream Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMerrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEssex County Greenbelt Association: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCity Lights Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 23% of budgetLowell Transitional Living Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMerrimack Valley Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSchool Year Abroad Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 59.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Essex County Community Foundation IncMA51.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Rogers Family Foundation · Abbot & Dorothy H Stevens Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Josephine G Russell Trust · Theodore Edson Parker Foundation · Demoulas Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation

How much does Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation give?
Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation reported 64 itemized grants totaling $908,200, out of $1,222,950 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 57 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (9%), Arts & Culture (9%), Youth Development (9%).
Who are Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Essex Art Center Inc ($271k), Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School Inc ($200k), Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation Inc ($176k).
Does Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Essex County Community Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Eastern Bank Foundation.
Where is Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation based?
Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 112 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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