· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTERBOARD INC | $50,000 |
| NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALITION | $45,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $45,000 |
| HAVEN PROJECT | $45,000 |
| ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $45,000 |
| HAWC | $45,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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 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.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 15 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization St Stephens Housing Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from St Stephens Housing Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Centerboard Inc: 23% of income from government
- Lysoa Inc: 15% of income from government
- North Shore Community Development Coalit: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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