· Private foundation
Stevens Family Foundation Inc
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 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 $10k17 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELPING HANDS CLINIC INC | $25,000 |
| CALDWELL COUNTY YOKEFELLOW | $20,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $20,000 |
| CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOUSE | $15,000 |
| QUIET GIVERS | $15,000 |
| HARPER SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $15,000 |
| CALDWELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CALDWELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BETHEL COLONY OF MERCY | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| CALDWELL HOSPICE & PALLATIVE CAREAMOREM | $10,000 |
| LENOIR SOUP KITCHEN | $6,000 |
| HUNGER & HEALTH COALITION | $5,000 |
| NC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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, $319k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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 +65% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 12 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- CCCaldwell County Yokefellow Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $181k · revenue +244%
- CACALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +394%
- BCBETHEL COLONY OF MERCY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +95%
Funded once
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -40%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- AAAuthoring Actionone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -1%
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.
To build affordable housing for disadvantaged families in caldwell county.
Strong local leadership committed to developing and building public/private partnerships and strategies to dramatically increase caldwell county's capacity to grow, produce sustainable positive change and improve caldwell county's ability…
To empower adults living with severe and persistent mental illness in north carolina with the tools to lead meaningful and independent lives.
Provide food, shelter, rehabilitation and christian ministry to the poor and homeless
Services to the elderly
A safe and healthy place for alcoholics and addicts as they recover and re-enter society.
To provide safe, effective, compassionate care and to promote healthy lifestyles to our community.
Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
The organization is a local volunteer fire department providing fire and rescue services to residents in their district.
Guided by God, Habitat Cabarrus transforms lives and our community by uniting all of Cabarrus County around the cause of decent, affordable housing for everyone.
The mission of WNC Lighthouse Inc is Changing lives, by being a light for Christ our Lord. Our vision is To be fully devoted to Jesus Christ, by opening our arms and providing Christian services to the underseved children, adults and…
To respond to the growing need in our community by providing immediate assistance to residents of Concord, Kannapolis, and Cabarrus County, NC who are experiencing crisis in the areas of food, shelter or finances while providing them…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crisis Control Ministry Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Essential Tremor Foundation. 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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 61 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 HELPING HANDS CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Caldwell County Yokefellow Inc ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BETHEL COLONY OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds Henderson County & Thermal Belt Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC DBA AMOREM ↗
- Who funds THE LENOIR SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL HERITAGE MUSEUMINC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER HOME OF THE FOOTHILLS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN PIEDMONT SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CONTROL MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds QUIET GIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds BUFFALO COVE OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WIG BANK OF CALDWELL COUNTYINC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds PATTERSON SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT DEFIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL COUNCIL ON ADOLESCENT HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Fund of the Blue Ridge Inc ↗
- Who funds Authoring Action ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 420 ↗
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: Broyhill Family Foundation Inc · Bernhardt Furniture Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · The Coffey Foundation Inc · The Wilson Family Foundation · Hogan Family Foundation Inc · Blue Ridge Energy Members Foundation · The Jonas Foundation · Caldwell County United Fund Inc · Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas
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 Stevens 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.
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% 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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