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Stepanski Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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Stepanski Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$193kEducation$155kHousing & Shelter$75kHealth$47kFood & Nutrition$17kInternational$16kHuman Services$15kYouth Development$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$689k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
MEGHAN FORRETT HAVILAND AUTO$15,000
THE NEW PLAZA CINEMA CO NORMA LEVY$5,250
BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL$3,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$1,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$1,000
EVERYTOWN GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND$1,000
WNET CHANNEL 13$1,000
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION$750
RIVERSIDE ORCHESTRA$750
EAST HAMPTON PUBLIC LIBRARY$450
THE PENN CLUB$225
NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY$200
MARLBORO VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT$100
02The need
03

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 (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

VT
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
MD
TN
DC
FL
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$371k · 20 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
38

Total granted

$371k
$114k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+40%

Still filing today

40%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TH
    THE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $90k · revenue +102%
  • BL
    BRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +18%
  • WF
    WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $1k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • TC
    Teachers College Columbia University
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +7%
  • LB
    LUNCH BREAK (FAMILY PROMISE)
    one grant, 2023 · $16k
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +34%
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.

1
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
2
The Trustees of the New York Society Library

The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.

—
3
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.

—
7
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
8
Boston Architectural College

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

—
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
11
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Riverside Orchestra Inc. 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

29 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. 29 of the 65 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
20/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NATIONAL THEATRE: $75,085 · OtherAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NATIONAL THEATREFAMILY PROMISE OF MONMOUTH COUNTY INC: $74,500 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE OF MONMOUTH COUNTY INCSECOND STAGE THEATRE COMPANY: $30,075 · OtherSECOND STAGE THEATRE COMPANYYOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NY: $20,000 · OtherYOUNG PEOPLE'S CHORUS OF NYIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE NEW PLAZA CINEMA CO NORMA LEVY: $17,250 · OtherTHE NEW PLAZA CINEMA CO NORMA LEVYLUNCH BREAK (FAMILY PROMISE): $16,000 · OtherUKRAINIAN RELIEF FUND: $15,000 · OtherMEGHAN FORRETT HAVILAND AUTO: $15,000 · Other+32 more: $35,725 · Other+32 moreTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $89,500 · EducationTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION…Teachers College Columbia University: $50,000 · EducationTeachers College Columbia Uni…+2 more: $3,350 · EducationBRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC: $16,200 · Arts & CultureARGENTO NEW MUSIC PROJECT INC: $14,710 · Arts & CultureWNET: $3,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR HISTORIANS OF THE EARLY AMERICAN REPUBLIC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTRISHA BROWN COMPANY INC: $1,500 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $4,880 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthFIGHTING CHANCE INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $1,000 · Human ServicesPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$318,635Education$142,850Arts & Culture$42,290Health$31,000International$11,000Human Services$1,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $89,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF MONMOUTH COUNTY INC: $74,500 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRATTLEBORO LITERARY FESTIVAL INC: $16,200 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIGHTING CHANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWNET: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRISHA BROWN COMPANY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELAINE KAUFMAN CULTURAL CENTER LUCY MOSES SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND DANCE: $1,220 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society: $1,160 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE ORCHESTRA INC: $800 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY BACH ENSEMBLE LTD: $350 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAG HARBOR VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTFIELD VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC6.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Stepanski Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stepanski Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report 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.

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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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