California · Private foundation
Stephenson 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of Stephenson Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 18 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $850,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 35
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Stephenson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 24 | $368k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $702k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $688k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $867k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $699k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $530,780 | 5 | 0% |
| Texas 2036 | $200,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Climate Leadership Council Inc | $125,000 | 3 | 2% |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kipp Bay Area Schools | $85,000 | 5 | 0% |
| CalMatters | $60,000 | 4 | 0% |
| All Stars Helping Kids Inc | $57,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Bay Area Womens Sports Initiative | $50,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Stop the Addiction Fatality Epidemic (Safe) Project US | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stephenson Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Marin Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation
How this is measured
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About Stephenson Foundation
- How much does Stephenson Foundation give?
- Stephenson Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,248,103 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Stephenson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (61%), Public Benefit (12%), Social Science (7%).
- Who are Stephenson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Folds of Honor Foundation ($531k), Texas 2036 ($200k), Alzheimer's Disease Research Foundation ($150k).
- Does Stephenson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stephenson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Stephenson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
- Where is Stephenson Foundation based?
- Stephenson Foundation is based in CA.
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