· Private foundation
Stephenson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $605k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $180,000 |
| ELEAZAR WHEELOCK HOUSE | $125,000 |
| THE BOWERY MISSION | $100,000 |
| APOSTLES BY THE SEA INC | $100,000 |
| THE VERITAS FORUM | $100,000 |
| YALE CENTER FOR FAITH & CULTURE | $25,000 |
| TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–19, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ICInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA6× · 2018–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +4%
- CHChristian Herald Association Inc5× · 2018–2025 · $695k · revenue +46%
CHARITY GLOBAL INC2× · 2018–2019 · $226k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF DARTHMOUTH COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $100k
- YLYOUNG LIFEone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue +10%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Gordon college strives to graduate men & women distinguished by (continued on schedule o) (continuation) intellectual maturity and christian character, committed to lives of service and prepared for leadership worldwide.
Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
To transform our nation and world by developing and connecting bold christian leaders.
Geneva college is a christ-centered academic community that provides a comprehensive education to equip students for faithful and fruitful service to god and neighbor.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
As part of the body of christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of jesus christ and become a part of the local church.
Haverford college is committed to providing a liberal arts education in the broadest sense. this education, based on a rich academic curriculum at its core, is distinguished by a commitment to excellence and a concern for individual…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Since 1890, whitworth has held fast to its founding mission of providing "an education of mind and heart" through rigorous intellectual inquiry guided by dedicated christian scholars.
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 21 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.
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stephenson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephenson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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