· Private foundation
St Stephens Housing Corporation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTERBOARD INC | $50,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $45,000 |
| ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $45,000 |
| NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALITION | $45,000 |
| HAVEN PROJECT | $45,000 |
| HAWC | $45,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $405k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $275k · revenue +35%
NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALIT6× · 2019–2024 · $255k · revenue +118%
The Haven Project Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $210k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- SSST STEPHENS MEMORIAL EPISCOPALone grant, 2018 · $50k
- SSST STEPHENS CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $50k
- LYLYNN YOUTH STREET OUTREACH ADVOCACYone grant, 2022 · $40k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The lynn shelter association (lsa) believes every person deserves a place to call home. lsa's mission is to provide a safe environment for each individual to define and pursue their goals for independence and self-sufficiency and offers…
Safe harbour provides a continuum of housing and supportive services for homeless and nearly homeless individuals and families in our communities.
Facilitating the advancement of low and moderate income persons and other underserved residents in the south shore area of massachusetts and to assist such persons in finding and acquiring suitable housing by providing real estate…
Youth emergency services (yes) provides housing and support to youth experiencing instability, crisis, and homelessness.
Providing emergency food and shelter to homeless and displaced persons in central Maine.
Provide charitable assistance to the general public by providing affordable housing through the purchase, sale, renting and leasing of dwellings.
Mary's shelter is committed to empowering homeless youth by providing housing, education, and social service programs.
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
Mercy housing and shelter corporation provides housing assistance and supportive services to persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. mercy works to empower its clients to become independent, so they may live and work with…
Plymouth works to eliminate homelessness & address its causes by preserving, developing & operating safe, quality, supportive housing & by providing homeless adults with opportunities to stabilize & improve their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centerboard Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lysoa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 15 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALIT ↗
- Who funds The Haven Project Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER LYNN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds LYSOA INC ↗
- Who funds Lynn Home for Young Women Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization St Stephens Housing Corporation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Centerboard Inc — 23% of income from government
- Lysoa Inc — 15% of income from government
- North Shore Community Development Coalit — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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