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.

Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation

Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$262k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$40k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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

02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $6k
$10k–50k8 grants · $256k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION	$40,000
SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL OF MINES AND TECHNOLOGY	$40,000
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$40,000
CARNEGIE MUSEUMS OF PITTSBURGH	$37,000
HUNGARIAN CATHOLIC MISSION	$30,000
UPMC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$29,530
FRANKLIN ROAD ACADEMY	$25,000
ARNOLD & WINNIE PALMER FOUNDATION	$14,299
THE NOAH ANGELICI HOPE FOUNDATION	$3,000
ALPHA CHI OMEGA FOUNDATION INC	$1,000
MORTON PLANT MEASE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION	$1,000
VETERINARY CARE FOUNDATION	$500
UPPER ST CLAIR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT	$500
WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA	$85

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 19 repeat orgs$159k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%

+9%

Still filing today

63%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

CI
CARNEGIE INSTITUTE
5× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +28%
EM
EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +8%
LU
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
3× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +53%

Funded once

WP
WESTMINISTER PRESBTERIAN CHURCH
one grant, 2017 · $50k
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation
one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +7%
TS
THE SHALOM FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -43%

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education

Upmc Carlisle

Upmc carlisle's mission is to serve the community by providing access to outstanding patient care and to shape tomorrow's health care system through clinical and technological innovation, research and education.

Health

Upmc Pinnacle Hospitals

Upmc pinnacle hospitals mission as a charitable organization is dedicatied to maintaining and improving the health and quality of life for all persons of the central pennsylvania area.

Health

University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health

The Carle Foundation Hospital

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health

Lehigh Valley Hospital

Our mission is to heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value, supported by education and research.

Health

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Upmc Group

Healthcare, education, and research

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Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pittsburgh Foundation; the most unlike its peers is South Sixth Street Playground Assoc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

30/30

Grantees still filing

19/30

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,053,346Philanthropy$460,599Education$110,950Health$100,658Arts & Culture$69,875Human Services$20,900Recreation & Sports$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Peter N and Joan Rossin Stephans Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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