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Stephens Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Stephens Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$618k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$1.7MHealth$365kArts & Culture$344kHousing & Shelter$317kYouth Development$200kCrime & Legal$32kFood & Nutrition$25kHuman Services$20k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $163k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$42,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BENNINGTON COLLEGE$250,000
YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION$105,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$50,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FDN$50,000
WESTHAB$42,000
CHRISTODORA$40,000
HARLEM ACADEMY$30,000
GRAD BAG INC$20,000
CODY DIERUF FOUNDATION$20,000
CONCORDIA COLLEGE$11,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.

area typical 8%DESTINATION COLLEGE: $30k → 9%DESTINATION COLLEGE: $30k → 9%DESTINATION COLLEGE: $30k → 9%DESTINATION COLLEGE: $10k → 9%DESTINATION COLLEGE: $5k → 9%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 14 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
5

Total granted

$2.9M
$127k

Still filing today

93%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BC
    BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
    7× · 2018–2025 · $802k · revenue +41%
  • YP
    YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $523k · revenue +89%
  • WI
    Westhab Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $317k · revenue +360%

Funded once

  • HJ
    HEALING JUSTICE
    one grant, 2024 · $32k
  • MC
    MACAULAY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • MH
    MACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art

See schedule ovision: the cooper union for the advancement of science and art is dedicated to peter cooper's radical commitment to diversity and his founding vision that fair access to an inspiring free education and forums for courageous…

Education
2
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
3
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
4
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
5
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
6
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
7
Barnard College

Barnard college aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research…

Education
8
Manhattanville University

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

Education
9
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
Marymount Manhattan College

Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).

Education
12
Cornell College

Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York; the most unlike its peers is Grad Bag 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

14 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. 14 of the 20 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $802,000 · EducationBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATIONYONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC: $523,000 · EducationYONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INCHARLEM ACADEMY: $60,000 · Education+2 more: $33,000 · EducationCONCORDIA COLLEGE: $111,000 · OtherCONCORDIA COLL…EMMAUS HOUSE INC: $64,100 · OtherEMMAUS HOUSE I…Charleston Collegiate School: $60,000 · OtherCharleston Col…HEALING JUSTICE: $32,400 · OtherHEALING JUSTIC…MACAULAY COLLEGE: $30,000 · OtherMACAULAY COLLE…MACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE: $25,000 · OtherMACAULAY HONOR…FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $25,000 · OtherFEEDING WESTCH…HARLEM HOUSE: $20,000 · OtherYSN YALE SCHOOL OF NURSING: $20,000 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $310,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBRO…CODY DIERUF FOUNDATION: $35,000 · HealthCODY DIERUF …Westhab Inc: $317,000 · Housing & ShelterWesthab IncNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $280,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK P…Christodora Inc: $200,000 · PhilanthropyDESTINATION COLLEGE: $105,000 · Human Services
Education$1,418,000Other$387,500Health$345,000Housing & Shelter$317,000Arts & Culture$280,000Philanthropy$200,000Human Services$105,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION: $802,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetYONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC: $523,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetWesthab Inc: $317,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $310,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $280,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetChristodora Inc: $200,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetCONCORDIA COLLEGE: $111,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetDESTINATION COLLEGE: $105,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCharleston Collegiate School: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCODY DIERUF FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetGRAD BAG INC: $30,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,000 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.

  • Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds YONKERS PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Westhab Inc ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds Christodora Inc ↗
  • Who funds CONCORDIA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds DESTINATION COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Charleston Collegiate School ↗
  • Who funds CODY DIERUF FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRAD BAG INC ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗

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 New York Communit…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The New York Community TrustNY13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Stephens Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephens Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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