How much did STEPHENSON FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$3.3MEducation$2.4MPhilanthropy$2.1MHealth$1.0MHuman Services$828kSocial Science$73kInternational$20kEnvironment$15kPublic Benefit$14kOther$4.6M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

ponychildren'scancerresearchaction

2020

children'saction

2021

leeland

2022

phoenix

2023

cancer researchaction

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $29k
$10k–50k15 grants · $300k
$50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$250k+2 grants · $1.3M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY$1,000,000
TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$300,000
HOROTIO ALGER ASSOCIATION$100,000
THE GRANT HAMILL FOUNDATION$100,000
NAVY SEALS$50,000
THE DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION$38,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF DALLAS$35,000
ASSISTANCE IN HEALTHCARE$25,975
DREAM CENTER$25,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$25,000
THE ATLAS SOCIETY$25,000
SCOTTISH RITE CHARITIES$21,000
BARRINGTON HISTORY MUSEUM$20,000
DEPAUW UNIVERSITY$15,000
SHERIDAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY$15,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $828k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$13M · 44 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$946k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%

+38%

Still filing today

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationSocial ScienceOther

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

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THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY
4× · 2020–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +47%
TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
3× · 2021–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +81%
GF
GATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH
3× · 2018–2023 · $614k · revenue +150%

Funded once

TP
THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORTgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +49%
TB
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATI
one grant, 2023 · $100k
AL
ATLANTIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

The Art Institute of Chicago

The Art Institute of Chicago, a not-for-profit corporation, is both a museum and an institution of higher education that exists to provide appreciation and education in visual fine arts and design.

Education

University of Chicago

The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.

Education

University of Illinois Alumni

The mission of the university of illinois alumni association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois and all of its alumni.

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Chicago Historical Society

Serve as the primary destination for learning, inspiration, and civic engagement to connect people to Chicago's history and each other.

Arts & Culture

The Illinois State Historical Society

To provide funding and support services in relation to the research and development of historical information regarding the state of illinois history.

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Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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Illinois Institute of Technology

To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.

Education

Indiana University Foundation

To maximize private philanthropic support for Indiana University

Education

Tucson Museum of Art

The tucson museum of art and historic block connects art to life through meaningful, engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity, and promote cultural understanding.

Arts & Culture

The Richard H Driehaus Foundation

Philanthropy

Acec Research Institute

Leading source of knowledge and thought leadership for creating a more sustainable, safe, secure, and technically advanced built environment.

Unclassified

Aia Chicago Foundation

Aia chicago foundation invests in chicago's next generation of architectural change-makers by awarding scholarships, grants, and recognition.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pathway to Adventure Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Phoenix Theatre. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/42

the rest of the field

11%

206,163/1,819,523

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.

05the grantee network

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/41

Grantees still filing

28/41

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,625,249Arts & Culture$3,292,000Education$2,362,500Philanthropy$2,053,750Health$1,037,100Human Services$827,970Social Science$72,500

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.

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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ16.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Barrington Area Comm Foundation Inc · Jackson Family Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Baxter International Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 organisation STEPHENSON 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CARRIAGE MUSEUM OF AMERICA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 010356732 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CARRIAGE MUSEUM OF AMERICA, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 87% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Stephenson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Stephenson Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

STEPHENSON FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Stephenson Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

STEPHENSON FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

41 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Stephenson Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph