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Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.3M
Granted FY2023
70
Grants FY2023
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0168% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2023.

Education$479kArts & Culture$409kYouth Development$246kHuman Services$209kEnvironment$97kHousing & Shelter$76kHealth$74kFood & Nutrition$47kCivil Rights$30kOther$859k
02FY2023 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 70 grants below total $945,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,334,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $389,250 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k37 grants · $106k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $465k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $375k
$8,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Essex Art Center$150,000
Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School$75,000
ECCF Greater Lawrence Summer Fund$50,000
Bellesini Academy$50,000
Youth Development Organization$50,000
Windrush Farm$35,000
Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence$35,000
Appalachian Mountain Club$30,000
Project Adventure$25,000
Esperanza Academy$25,000
United Teen Equality Center$25,000
Hurricane Island Outward Bound School$25,000
Phillips Academy PALS$20,000
Professional Ctr. For Child Devel$15,000
Bread & Roses Heritage Committee$15,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 44 repeat orgs$584k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
35

Total granted

$1.9M
$425k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+16%

Still filing today

75%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • Essex Art Center Inc
    3× · 2021–2023 · $270k · revenue +65% · 27% of their budget
  • YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +6%
  • WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $96k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • SQUASHBUSTERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $63k · revenue -47%
  • GL
    GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +36%
  • FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $43k · revenue +44%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
2
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
3
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
4
Lawrence Extended Day Program Inc

Provide after school educational programs to students of the Lawrence School in Brookline MA

Human Services
5
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
6
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
9
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
10
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture
11
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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12
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc and the most unlike its peers is Immigrant City Archives. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersEnvironmental Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Hospital SystemsAffordable Housing Developm…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Youth Development CentersAffordable Housing Construc…Community Theater CompaniesFaith-Based Homeless Servic…Charter and Independent Sch…Immigrant and Latino Integr…Animal Rescue and ShelterYmca Community CentersFood Pantries and AssistanceLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr14%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%40%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr14%16%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,299

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

03the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 96 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/57
Grantees still filing
37/57
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ECCF Greater Lawrence Summer Fund — $192,500 · OtherECCF Greater Lawrence Summer FundBellesini Academy — $101,000 · OtherBellesini AcademyPROJECT ADVENTURE INC — $49,700 · OtherGovernor's Academy GOVS PLUS — $45,000 · OtherBoys & Girls Club of Lawrence — $35,000 · OtherGREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC — $50,000 · Other+54 more — $537,130 · Other+54 moreNOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC — $200,000 · EducationNOTRE DAME CRISTO REY…Immigrant City Archives — $91,000 · EducationImmigrant City Archiv…ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC — $76,000 · EducationESPERANZA ACADEMY INCGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY — $34,500 · EducationGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADE…BRADFORD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC — $30,000 · EducationBRADFORD CHRISTIAN AC…BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $19,000 · Education+3 more — $28,000 · Education+3 moreEssex Art Center Inc — $270,000 · Arts & CultureEssex Art Center I…DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC — $77,500 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY MUSEUM I…THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $23,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR IND…Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc — $16,000 · Arts & CultureHAVERHILL HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $7,500 · Arts & CultureYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH DEVEL…UTEC Inc — $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentUTEC IncSQUASHBUSTERS INC — $62,500 · Youth DevelopmentSQUASHBUSTE…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HAVERHILL INC — $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC — $96,000 · Human ServicesWINDRUSH …FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC — $42,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY SE…LAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesLAWRENCE …RUTHS HOUSE INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesRUTHS HOU…HARVEY GIRLS INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesHARVEY GI…MERRIMACK VALLEY DREAM CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesGREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA — $10,000 · Human Services+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesAppalachian Mountain Club — $60,000 · EnvironmentHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL — $36,250 · Environment+2 more — $750 · EnvironmentLAZARUS HOUSE INC — $47,500 · Housing & ShelterCOMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterMerrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc — $8,500 · Housing & ShelterLOWELL TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $4,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,010,330Education$478,500Arts & Culture$409,000Youth Development$245,500Human Services$208,500Environment$97,000Housing & Shelter$75,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEssex Art Center Inc — $270,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetNOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC — $200,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC — $96,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetImmigrant City Archives — $91,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC — $77,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetESPERANZA ACADEMY INC — $76,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUTEC Inc — $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC — $62,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ADVENTURE INC — $49,700 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC — $47,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC — $42,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL — $36,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY — $34,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRADFORD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC — $26,500 over 3y, 72% of budgetLAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOWELL HOUSE INC — $24,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $23,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HAVERHILL INC — $18,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT HOME AGAIN — $17,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMerrimack Repertory Theatre Inc — $16,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHAVERHILL HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $15,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLATINO STEM ALLIANCE — $15,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRUTHS HOUSE INC — $12,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEY GIRLS INC — $12,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY DREAM CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCHALLENGE UNLIMITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDWELLING HOUSE OF HOPE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMerrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc — $8,500 over 3y, 0.7% 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 budgetESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO LAND CONSERVANCY — $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Essex County Communit…Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…Rogers Family Foundat…Abbot & Dorothy H Ste…We Share A Common Thr…Boston Foundation IncJosephine G Russell T…Theodore Edson Parker…Demoulas FoundationSalem Five Charitable…United Way Of Massach…
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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 96 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1.2M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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