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Stevens Square Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$637k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$2.1MFood & Nutrition$516kHealth$322kHousing & Shelter$289kCrime & Legal$214kInternational$210kCommunity Improvement$97kArts & Culture$64kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $635k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH$30,000
FRIENDS & CO$30,000
CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN$30,000
MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL AID$26,000
PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES$26,000
DARTS$25,500
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAINT PAUL$25,500
CAPI USA$25,500
HELP AT YOUR DOOR$25,500
OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA$25,000
THE OPEN DOOR$25,000
SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES$25,000
COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC$25,000
FAMILYMEANS$25,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA-MINNESOTAWISCONSIN$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%DARTS: $28k → 6%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 11%FRIENDS & CO: $30k → 14%FAMILYMEANS: $30k → 6%DARTS: $28k → 6%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $29k → 11%FRIENDS & CO: $25k → 14%FAMILYMEANS: $30k → 6%DARTS: $26k → 6%MINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER: $20k → 14%FAMILYMEANS: $25k → 6%DARTS: $25k → 6%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 11%FAMILYMEANS: $25k → 6%DARTS: $25k → 6%FAMILYMEANS: $25k → 6%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $25k → 11%DARTS: $20k → 6%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF SAINT PAUL: $26k → 14%SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $23k → 11%HALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 14%TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $30k → 11%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $30k → 11%VIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA: $25k → 14%CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $30k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $28k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $27k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $27k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $27k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $25k → 11%TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $25k → 11%TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $25k → 11%TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $25k → 11%COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $25k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 11%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $20k → 11%MINNEAPOLIS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER: $20k → 11%MINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER: $28k → 14%MINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER: $28k → 14%PRISM - PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $30k → 11%PRISM: $28k → 11%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 11%SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 11%SEWA-AIFW INC: $30k → 11%LONGFELLOWSEWARD HEALTHY SENIORS: $23k → 11%LONGFELLOWSEWARD HEALTHY SENIORS: $21k → 11%AGE WELL AT HOME: $30k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 52 repeat orgs$438k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
25

Total granted

$3.6M
$423k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+27%

Still filing today

83%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureFood & NutritionEducationCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • D
    DARTS
    6× · 2019–2025 · $152k · revenue +41%
  • KC
    Keystone Community Services
    5× · 2019–2024 · $139k · revenue +127%
  • F
    FAMILYMEANS
    5× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • AW
    AGE WELL AT HOME
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -68%
  • TC
    TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue +33%
  • A
    AEON
    one grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue +24%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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2
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
3
Mn Community Measurement

Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.

Health
4
Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy
5
Community Neighborhood Housing Services

Our mission is "empowering individuals and communities by helping people, buy, fix and keep their homes". to further this work, we provide homeownership education and advising as well as residential community lending programs to families…

Housing & Shelter
6
Open Cities Health Center Inc

Open Cities Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) whose mission is to provide culturally competent primary and preventive healthcare services to a largely underserved population in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Health
7
Minnesota Valley Action Council Inc

Develop resources and opportunities which empower people and communities.

Community Improvement
8
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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9
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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10
Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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11
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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12
Central Minnesota Council On Aging Inc

The central minnesota council on aging is committed to maintaining the highest level of independence with older people by developing and coordinating community care, reducing isolation and improving access to services.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Community Services; the most unlike its peers is Lao Advancement Organization of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 79 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
47/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DARTS: $151,500 · Human ServicesDARTSFAMILYMEANS: $135,000 · Human ServicesFAMILYMEANSCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $132,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INCSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $132,000 · Human ServicesSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICESMINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER: $121,000 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTERTOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $105,000 · Human ServicesTOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTHLongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Program: $100,000 · Human ServicesLongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors ProgramCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $99,000 · Human ServicesCENTRO TYRONE GUZMANPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $97,000 · Human ServicesSABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $90,000 · Human ServicesOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $85,000 · Human ServicesFriends & Co: $75,000 · Human Services+17 more: $527,883 · Human Services+17 moreMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL AID: $153,500 · OtherMID-MINNESOTA LEGAL AIDVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA-MINNESOTAWISCONSIN: $151,500 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA-MINNESOTAWISCONSINKeystone Community Services: $139,000 · OtherKeystone Community ServicesIndividual grant recipient: $113,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVEAP Inc: $96,500 · OtherVEAP IncHELP AT YOUR DOOR: $95,500 · OtherHELP AT YOUR DOORNOKOMIS HEALTHY SENIORS: $78,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $62,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $62,000 · OtherNORTH END-SOUTH COMO BLOCK NURSE PROGRAM: $60,000 · Other+29 more: $605,750 · Other+29 moreRebuilding Together - Twin Cities: $78,000 · Housing & ShelterAEON: $28,000 · Housing & ShelterHEARTS AND HAMMERS - TWIN CITIES INC: $22,500 · Housing & ShelterNORTHCOUNTRY COOPERATIVE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $80,000 · Food & NutritionTHE OPEN DOOR: $45,000 · Food & NutritionCAPI USA: $111,500 · InternationalLAO ADVANCEMENT ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $78,000 · EducationMINNESOTA LEADERSHIP COUNCIL ON AGING: $5,300 · EducationConflict Resolution Center: $60,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$1,850,883Other$1,691,750Housing & Shelter$143,500Food & Nutrition$125,000International$111,500Education$83,300Crime & Legal$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDARTS: $151,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetKeystone Community Services: $139,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILYMEANS: $135,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC: $132,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES: $132,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER: $121,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetCAPI USA: $111,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $105,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Program: $100,000 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetCENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN: $99,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY: $97,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetVEAP Inc: $96,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHELP AT YOUR DOOR: $95,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetSABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER: $90,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetOPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $85,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMETRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRebuilding Together - Twin Cities: $78,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetLAO ADVANCEMENT ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA: $78,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetFriends & Co: $75,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $62,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetConflict Resolution Center: $60,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetMinneapolis American Indian Center: $55,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $53,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSEWA-AIFW: $48,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALEXANDRA HOUSE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVISION LOSS RESOURCES INC: $42,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSouthern Anoka Community Assistance: $42,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC: $41,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL: $40,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK FOR SENIORS: $40,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetKAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetELDER VOICE ADVOCATES: $35,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetCOMPAS INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAGE WELL AT HOME: $30,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY SENIOR SERVICES: $30,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $28,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAEON: $28,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA ASSISTANCE COUNCIL FOR VETERANS: $25,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVIETNAMESE SOCIAL SERVICES OF MINNESOTA: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEARTS AND HAMMERS - TWIN CITIES INC: $22,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetOPEN YOUR HEART TO THE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHALLIE Q BROWN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SANNEH FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWALKER WEST MUSIC ACADEMY: $16,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

  • Who funds DARTS ↗
  • Who funds Keystone Community Services ↗
  • Who funds FAMILYMEANS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY EMERGENCY SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ELDER JUSTICE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CAPI USA ↗
  • Who funds TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds LongfellowSeward Healthy Seniors Program ↗
  • Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE RESPONDING IN SOCIAL MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
  • Who funds HELP AT YOUR DOOR ↗
  • Who funds SABATHANI COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds METRO MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
  • Who funds Rebuilding Together - Twin Cities ↗
  • Who funds LAO ADVANCEMENT ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Friends & Co ↗
  • Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds Conflict Resolution Center ↗
  • Who funds Minneapolis American Indian Center ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS ↗
  • Who funds SEWA-AIFW ↗
  • Who funds THE OPEN DOOR ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDRA HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds VISION LOSS RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds Southern Anoka Community Assistance ↗
  • Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF ST PAUL ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK FOR SENIORS ↗
  • Who funds KAREN ORGANIZATION OF MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds ELDER VOICE ADVOCATES ↗

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.

Otto Bremer TrustThe Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…Greater Twin Cities U…Metropolitan Area Age…The Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Mardag FoundationFr Bigelow FoundationHunger Solutions Minn…Pohlad Family Foundat…
Otto Bremer TrustMN74.8× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otto Bremer Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging Inc · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Mardag Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Pohlad Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stevens Square Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stevens Square Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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