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The Field-Stephen 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
91% of The Field-Stephen Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Field-Stephen Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIFTH CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST WASHINGTON DC | $1,000,000 |
| ADVENTURE UNLIMITED | $100,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM | $50,000 |
| SIXTH CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST WASHINGTON DC | $20,000 |
| REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| LYNN HOUSE OF THE POTOMAC | $10,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS | $10,000 |
| CAMPS NEWFOUND AND OWATONNA | $10,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP PLACE | $5,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH GEORGETOWN EPISCOPAL | $5,000 |
| FOOD & FRIENDS | $5,000 |
| CHERISHABILITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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
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 +17% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AUADVENTURE UNLIMITED4× · 2021–2024 · $153k · revenue +15%
- PFPEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $68k · revenue +20%
- RIREFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
- TCTeachers College Columbia Universityone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +9%
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.
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Education and Research
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The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
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How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 20 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds PEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFUGEES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE INT'L CENTER FOR JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Teachers College Columbia University ↗
- Who funds LONGYEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds CHERISHABILITY ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS 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: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Field-Stephen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Field-Stephen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
How this is measured
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