· Private foundation
Stephens Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $201k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $352k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MSU FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $70,000 |
| ALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION | $61,225 |
| SAINT MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $61,225 |
| DALLAS OPERA | $60,000 |
| DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $48,550 |
| BROADWAY DALLAS | $30,000 |
| DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA LEAGUE | $25,000 |
| MISSOULA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ATLANTA OPERA | $13,787 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LACMUS FESTIVAL | $13,787 |
| WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $10,000 |
| MERCY CHEFS | $10,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $264k 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
- TDThe Dallas Opera7× · 2019–2025 · $312k · revenue +30%
- DSDALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION7× · 2019–2025 · $239k · revenue +33%
- SFSPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC6× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $7k
- SCSENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHENone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +15%
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.
Provide financial support to the dallas opera.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.
The Dallas Winds, a Grammy-nominated wind ensemble, stands as a cultural cornerstone of Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1985, the Dallas Winds has grown into one of the worlds premier wind bands, renowned for its extraordinary artistry and…
Using Shakespeare's works as a cornerstone, Shakespeare Dallas serves the Southwest region with fun and accessible indoor and outdoor theatre, integrated school programs, and cultural enrichment for people of all ages and backgrounds.
To further the operatic art form by presenting ensemble performances of the highest quality in a varied repertoire of new as well as rarely performed and standard works, to ensure excellence of opera's future through its apprentice…
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
Dtc will engage, entertain, and inspire our diverse community by creating experiences that stimulate new ways of thinking and living and by producing plays, educational programs, and other initiatives that are of the highest quality and…
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
Klru is a leader in public media, distinguished by its energetic engagement with the community and for the quality and creativity of content. klru illuminates the wider world of knowledge; the importance of discourse; and the many…
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Broadway Dallas Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Lacmus Festival Inc. 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 48 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 29 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 The Dallas Opera ↗
- Who funds CHRIST ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DALLAS SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Midwestern State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Project Back to School ↗
- Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds Broadway Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Opera Parallle ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LACMUS FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FALLS AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR CITIZEN SERVICES OF NORTH TEXAS INC DBA THE KITCHEN ↗
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: James N McCoy Foundation · Stanley Grover Charitable Trust · Leota Steed Foundation · Donnell Foundation · Bryant Edwards Foundation Inc · Perkins-Prothro Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 Stephens Family Foundation 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.
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.