· Private foundation
Stephenson Family Foundation Inc
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 $10k8 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| H3 HEALTH HEALING HOPE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,902 |
| BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| EASTERN RANDOLPH HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS | $2,000 |
| EXPERIENCE YOUTH BASEBALL INCORPORATED | $1,500 |
| TAYLOR FAMILY YMCA | $1,000 |
| SOUTH WAKE STORM YOUTH SPORTS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| APEX MIDDLE SCHOOL | $675 |
| DEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA | $300 |
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 (FY17–23, $463k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)6× · 2017–2023 · $461k · revenue +52%
- WMWALTER M WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB4× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +132%
- ECElder Care of Alachua County Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +171%
Funded once
- DMDORCAS MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2017 · $25k
- WWWESTERN WAKE YOUNG LIFEone grant, 2017 · $20k
- MCMIDDLE CREEK HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $2k
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 YMCA of Southeastern NC (YMCA of SENC)is an inclusive non-profit association committed to putting Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. Our staff and volunteers work…
Promote, coordinate, and develop youth soccer.
To encourage, promote, and stimulate the community development of human resources, principally to eliminate poverty through the operation of community action programs.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
Baptist children's homes of north carolina (bch) is a nonprofit organization that reaches out to children and families in crisis. the agency's mission statement is "sharing hope...changing lives."
To build a thriving regional economy, enhance the community's quality of life, and strengthen member businesses.
The Yadkin Valley Chamber of Commerce is an organization that promotes a positive business environment, community betterment and supports economic development
Disability rights north carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.
To assist in the development of child care resource and referral services in burke county, nc
Raleigh county community action association, inc. empowers individuals and families to reach their highest levels of social and economical self-sufficiency, while identifying and eliminating causes of poverty. rccaa provides direct…
Salisbury-rowan community action agency is committed to providing education, child care, and other services to the underprivileged residents of salisbury, north carolina and two surrounding counties.
To provide all families a positive, healthy, progressive environment for youth development through soccer in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dementia Alliance of North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 39 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALTER M WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds CARY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Elder Care of Alachua County Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES OF SANFORD INC ↗
- Who funds DEMENTIA ALLIANCE OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds SANFORD AREA SOCCER LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE ATTITUDE YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VOLUNTEER CAREGIVING ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WAKE STORM YOUTH SPORTS ASSOC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Eyes Ears Nose and Paws Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION 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: Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Inc 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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