South Carolina · Private foundation
Stephens Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $135k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $108,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $271k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Stephens Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 11 | $135k | 55% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $121k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $103k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $14k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $14k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $13k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $14k | 17% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $14k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocco's Heartland Rescue Inc | $258,000 | 3 | 91% |
| Save a Pet Inc | $24,100 | 8 | 4% |
| Foothills Humane Society Inc | $21,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Too Broke Girls Animal Rescue | $13,027 | 4 | n/a |
| Rock on Rescue Inc | $11,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Simply Grace Rescue Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lake Oconee Academy Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Museum of Arts & Sciences Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Little Beans Orphan Ark Rescue | $3,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Sfc Virginia | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($64k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Stephens Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Petco Love · Greater Good Charities · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Stephens Family Foundation
- How much does Stephens Family Foundation give?
- Stephens Family Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $134,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Stephens Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (82%), Education (8%), Philanthropy (2%).
- Who are Stephens Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rocco's Heartland Rescue Inc ($258k), Save a Pet Inc ($24k), Foothills Humane Society Inc ($21k).
- Does Stephens Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stephens Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Stephens Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Petco Love, Greater Good Charities, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund.
- Where is Stephens Family Foundation based?
- Stephens Family Foundation is based in SC.
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