How much did STEPHENS' CHRISTIAN TRUST grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 98% of STEPHENS' CHRISTIAN TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

$50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$250k+1 grant · $1.3M

$1,334,792

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants

DAVID LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY$1,334,792
NASHVILLE INNER CITY MINISTRY$100,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.0M · 12 repeat orgs$441k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +103% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.0M

$441k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%

+30%

Still filing today

42%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationReligionInternationalArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

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NASHVILLE INNER CITY MINISTRY
2× · 2018–2025 · $102k · revenue +123%
PU
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +36%
CS
CHRISTIAN SCHOLARS' FOUNDATION
2× · 2023–2024 · $9k · revenue +139%

Funded once

OV
OHIO VALLEY UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2019 · $250k
WC
WORLD CHRISTIAN BROADCASTING
one grant, 2018 · $44k · revenue +17%
TO
THE OPERATION ANDREW GROUPgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +247%

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

04Your field

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.

Christian Ministries International

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Charlotte Christian College &

To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.

Religion

Joshua Nations International

Spreading christianity worldwide.

Religion

Harvest Ministries Inc

Spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ worldwide by building churches funding Bible Colleges missionariesand other likeminded ministries

Religion

Christian Ministries Inc

To serve christian ministries and individuals in their pursuit of a christian education.

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New Covenant World Missions

The organization preaches the Gospel through Bible Schools, Medical Clinics, and Crusades.

International

Huntsville Bible College Inc

Prepare individuals to become pastors, evangelists, missionary workers, christian education teachers and and to assist the local church in carrying out its mission

Education

Christian Ministries Inc

To broadcast the good news of jesus christ to reach the lost, and teach, encourage, and unify the body of christ.

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Heritage Christian University

Heritage Christian University equips servants through undergraduate and graduate and continuing education. HCU produces effective communicators, preachers, teachers and missionaries for real world ministry with a focus on evangelism and a…

Education

New Hope Christian College

New hope christian college is an accredited church related four year and graduate degree granting institution whose primary mission is training leaders for ministry and marketplace.

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Christian Schools Inc

Education - Private Christian SchoolGrades K - 12

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Torch of Christ Ministries

Torch of Christ Ministries provides evangelism education and missional support through the dissemination of information with the primary intent of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ to all

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Graceworks Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mountain States Children's Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2/37

the rest of the field

11%

4,007/36,363

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/31

Grantees still filing

24/31

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,322,425Arts & Culture$43,500Education$28,000Human Services$24,500Religion$20,250Youth Development$5,500Employment$4,000

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of MiddleTN26.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle · Washington Foundation · Servant Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Harrison-Robbie Dearing Foundation · Ezell Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Nashville Predators Foundation · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Shumard Foundation Inc

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 organisation STEPHENS' CHRISTIAN TRUST 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: OHIO VALLEY UNIVERSITY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue held over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 550419865 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on OHIO VALLEY UNIVERSITY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Stephens' Christian Trust?

Find your warmest path to Stephens' Christian Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

STEPHENS' CHRISTIAN TRUST

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Stephens' Christian Trust?

More from the funding graph

STEPHENS' CHRISTIAN TRUST

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

31 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Stephens' Christian Trust?

More from the funding graph