· Private foundation
The Stephens Endowment
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $20,000 |
| EMMANUEL UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| SUMMIT COMMUNITY CHURCH | $12,000 |
| BURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| CHRIST CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NC | $4,000 |
| MISSION DIGNITY - GUIDSTONE | $3,000 |
| THE OUTREACH CENTER | $2,000 |
| ENGAGE HOPE MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| PREGNANCY CARE CENTER | $1,000 |
| CATAWBA RIVER BAPTIST ENDOWMENT | $1,000 |
| BIBLE BROADCASTING NETWORK | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 93% of your 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- EUEMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $162k · revenue +36%
- CCCHRIST CLASSICAL ACADEMY8× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +181%
- EHENGAGE HOPE MINISTRIES5× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- SISUMMIT INTERNATIONAL FUNDone grant, 2023 · $2k
- MMISSIONDIGNITY-GUIDESTONEone grant, 2022 · $1k
- LALOVE A CHILD INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +27%
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 be the love of christ to uganda's orphaned and vulnerable children, equipping them to become authentic godly leaders that transform generations
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
Sharing the love of jesus christ by building sustainable communities around the world and providing medical care to low-income households in the united states. the organization is currently building two sustainable communities in haiti and…
The academy will seek to create a desire to know and serve god in the hearts of our students by equipping them academically, physically, spiritually, and socially to fulfill god's purpose for their lives.
To assist in the development of child care resource and referral services in burke county, nc
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
Religious broadcasting services to involve christians in professional and media fields to join force in the production of gospel programs for radio and
In Christ Ministries exists to bring the message of Gods love grace and truth to children teens and adults. We do this through training and outreach events.
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Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Bible Broadcasting Network Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 EMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ENGAGE HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds THE OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIBLE BROADCASTING NETWORK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LOVE A CHILD INC ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Stephens Endowment 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.
- Love a Child Inc — 0% 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.