· Private foundation
Stephens Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ninewise Publishing Foundation | $70,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $40,000 |
| Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design | $40,000 |
| Smith College | $21,250 |
| Smith College | $20,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters | $10,000 |
| Incourage Community | $10,000 |
| UMass Amherst Fdn | $10,000 |
| All-in-Milwaukee | $10,000 |
| Messengers of Mercy | $10,000 |
| Friends of Dartmouth Equestrian | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Messengers of Mercy | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $320k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +39%- UCUNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $320k · revenue +52%
MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $220k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- USUniversity School of Milwaukee - Scholarshipsone grant, 2023 · $140k
- MSMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $84k · revenue +32%
- CCCARLETON COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +13%
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.
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.
Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mount mary university, an urban catholic university for women sponsored by the school sisters of notre dame, provides an environment for the development of the whole person. the university encourages leadership, integrity, and a deep sense…
Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…
The mission of umass global is to provide students with an accessible inclusive, and transformative education based on excellence and flexibility, creating lasting value and relevance for a dynamic world.
Meredith college, grounded in the liberal arts and committed to professional preparation, educates and inspires students to live with integrity and provide leadership for the needs, opportunities and challenges of society.
The mission of the michigan science center is to inspire curious minds of all ages to discover, explore and appreciate science, technology, engineering and math in a creative, dynamic learning environment.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE INSTITUTE OF ART & DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds NINEWISE PUBLISHING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED PERFORMING ARTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MESSENGERS OF MERCY ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds MALAIKA EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DANCEWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
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: Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · Anon Charitable Trust · Harley-Davidson Foundation Inc · Cedar Street Charitable Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · The Werner Family Foundation · Hauske Family Foundation Inc · Bert L and Patricia S Steigleder Charitable · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stephens Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephens Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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