· Private foundation
Stephenson Family Foundation A/K/A Celebrate Life Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY | $1,000,000 |
| TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| HOROTIO ALGER ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| THE GRANT HAMILL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
| WABASH COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| DEPAUW UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $874k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 8 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k 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
- TPTHE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY4× · 2020–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +44%
- WCWabash College8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +87%
- CICHILDHELP INC7× · 2018–2024 · $725k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- TPTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +150%
- TBTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATIone grant, 2023 · $100k
- SHSSM HEALTH CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Vision: drive positive change through the power of design and focused activism.mission: aia inspires and empowers architects to improve society and transform the world.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
Acec research institute serve as the leading source of knowledge and thought leadership for creating a more sustainable, safe, secure, and technically advanced built environment. identify, fund, and provide industry wide research forecasts…
To assist member firms in achieving higher professional, ethical business and economic standards, enabling member firms to provide quality consulting and engineering services for their clients and the public.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To represent the interests of dermatologists and their patients. to influence and be a credible resource for public and private entities related to all policies and regulations that have the potential to affect the delivery of dermatologic…
Azaap is committed to improving the health of arizona children and supporting the pediatric professionals who care for them.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leaders in Furthering Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aameer Sahi Foundation 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 32 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 118 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 PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
- Who funds Wabash College ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDHELP INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE IN HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds College of Lake County Foundation ↗
- Who funds Sheridan Historical Society INC ↗
- Who funds THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Trends Charitable Fund ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ACUPUNCTURE& CHINESE ↗
- Who funds Acton Academy DC Foundation ↗
- Who funds GRANT HAMILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Barrington History Museum ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
- Who funds Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty ↗
- Who funds THE ATLAS SOCIETY LTD ↗
- Who funds CARRIAGE MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds DePauw University ↗
- Who funds CITY HELP INC OF PHOENIX ↗
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: Arizona Community Foundation · Jackson Family Foundation · Barrington Area Comm Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · Baxter International Foundation · Moreno Family Foundation · The Rob Walton Foundation · Foglia Family Foundation · The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · 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 Stephenson Family Foundation A/K/A Celebrate Life 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
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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