· Private foundation
Stevenson Family Charitable Trust
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 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k70 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $475k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RBC CAPITAL MARKETS LLC (DONAR ADVISED FUND) | $1,000,000 |
| ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM | $125,000 |
| UPSTREAM USA | $100,000 |
| WBUR | $100,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $50,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $34,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM | $26,000 |
| BOSTON BALLET | $25,000 |
| SUMMER SEARCH BOSTON | $25,000 |
| PROCTOR ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY | $25,000 |
| BELMONT DAY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 36% of Stevenson Family Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 54%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
123 repeat relationships: 73 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 9 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MAMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL8× · 2017–2024 · $921k · revenue +22%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $474k · revenue +45%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION7× · 2017–2024 · $470k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- OLOne League Global Scholarship Fundone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -78% · 43% of their budget
- ZPZEITERION PERFORMING ARTS CENTERone grant, 2023 · $50k
THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +28%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
How this is measured
125 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. 125 of the 187 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.
- Who funds MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds One League Global Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds Upstream USA Inc ↗
- Who funds SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds BIKE HUB ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds BURR & BURTON SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds BELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Alchemy Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · The William & Lia G Poorvu Family Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Fidelity Foundation · Barr Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Middlecott Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stevenson Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stevenson Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
- Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
- Riverside Community Care Inc: 58% of income from government
- Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc: 45% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
- The Cambridge Historical Society: 11% of income from government
- Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc: 11% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
- Families First Parenting Program Inc: 10% of income from government
- The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc: 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- From the Top Inc: 6% of income from government
- Rogerson Communities Inc: 6% of income from government
- Boston Dance Alliance Inc: 5% of income from government
- Mount Auburn Hospital: 5% of income from government
- Silk Road Project Inc: 4% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc: 4% of income from government
- Bike Hub: 3% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc: 3% of income from government
- Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc: 3% of income from government
- Burr & Burton Seminary: 2% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl: 2% of income from government
- Boston Book Festival Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society: 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery: 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pine Cobble School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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