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Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$262k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
16
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$6.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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
FY2025still arriving13$222k31%
FY202416$169k50%
FY202311$203k36%
FY202214$111k57%
FY202110$254k50%
FY202011$88k45%
FY20199$165k33%
FY20187$65k43%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$702kPhilanthropy$511kEducation$281kHealth$160kArts & Culture$81kRecreation & Sports$45kHuman Services$29kInternational$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
MI
NY
SD
IN
PA
CA
CO
KY
AZ
TN
NC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($709k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation: $81,658 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCarnegie Institute: $68,875 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetExtra Mile Education Foundation: $38,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLehigh University: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin Road Academy Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRoundup River Ranch: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetArnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation Inc: $14,299 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shalom Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCamp Catanese Foundation: $7,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Friendship Circle of Pittsburgh Inc: $5,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Sixth Street Playground Assoc: $5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPeople Loving Nashville: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMorton Plant Mease Health Care Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMerakey Foundation: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetReading Is Fundamental Pittsburgh: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAlpha Chi Omega Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUpper St Clair Volunteer Fire Dept: $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDuquesne Club Charitable Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetUnited Way of Kentucky Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMario Lemieux Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVeterinary Care Foundation Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $289 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLight of Life Ministries Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLoyalhanna Watershed Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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 27.

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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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Rossin Foundation · Upmc Group · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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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How do I get to Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans 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.

About Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation

How much does Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation give?
Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $261,914 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (38%), Philanthropy (28%), Education (15%).
Who are Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hungarian Catholic Mission ($337k), Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Foundation ($82k), Carnegie Institute ($69k).
Does Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pittsburgh Foundation, Rossin Foundation, Upmc Group.
Where is Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation based?
Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation is based in PA.

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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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