· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $20,000 |
| SUMMIT COMMUNITY CHURCH | $12,000 |
| EMMANUEL UNIVERSITY | $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 |
| BIBLE BROADCASTING NETWORK | $1,000 |
| PREGNANCY CARE CENTER | $1,000 |
| CATAWBA RIVER BAPTIST ENDOWMENT | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 93% of its 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 +36% since the first grant, against -24% for those 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
How this is measured
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 INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · 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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 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 ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 Stephens Endowment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stephens Endowment. Bigger dots raise more.
- Love a Child Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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