· Private foundation
Stephens Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $27k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCCO'S HEARTLAND RESCUE INC | $108,000 |
| SAVE A PET | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| TOO BROKE GIRLS ANIMAL RESCUE | $4,000 |
| LAKE OCONEE ACADEMY | $4,000 |
| ROCK ON RESCUE | $3,000 |
| SFC VIRGINIA | $2,500 |
| THE HOPE HIGHWAY | $1,000 |
| ROSIE RESCUE | $1,000 |
| PRECIOUS PAWS RESCUE INC | $1,000 |
| LUCKY DOG RESCUE RANCH | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 32% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- RHROCCO'S HEARTLAND RESCUE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $258k · revenue +267% · 91% of their budget
- SASAVE A PET INC8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +3%
- FHFoothills Humane Society Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $21k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- SGSIMPLY GRACE RESCUE INCone grant, 2023 · $6k
- CSCARING SOLUTIONSone grant, 2018 · $3k
- LBLittle Beans Orphan Ark Rescueone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -25%
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.
Rescue unwanted dogs and cats from high kill shelters and other dire circumstances. Provide veterinary care shelter and love until the pet is placed into an appropriate new home.
We are an animal rescue who takes dogs and cats from high kill shelters, off the streets and owner surrenders and get them vetted and adopted and we transport them out of high volume areas to the northeast.
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
To help rescue unwanted pets
we are a small animal rescue. We help the community by assisting with vet care and rehoming animals they cannot keep. We also pull dogs cats kittens and puppies from local kill shelters when they run out of space, we provide those animals…
To save homeless animals, vet them and find them loving homes
Animal Welfare and Rescue.
Rescue dogs, which includes housing, vetting, and transport.
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cat House On the Kings Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lake Oconee Academy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 73% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 47 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 ROCCO'S HEARTLAND RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE A PET INC ↗
- Who funds Foothills Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCK ON RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Oconee Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS & SCIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds Little Beans Orphan Ark Rescue ↗
- Who funds SFC VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRESBYTERIAN DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKING R RANCH RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE CAT HOUSE ON THE KINGS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEGO BAY ANIMAL HAVEN LIMITED ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG HUMANE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARRIER ISLANDS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Precious Paws Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds WOFFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LABOR OF LOVE TRANSPORT RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Rosie Rescue ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PICKENS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: 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
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.
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