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The Stephenson Family 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.

$29k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$12,449
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2023 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$77k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations The Stephenson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$29k93%
FY20242$11k50%
FY20235$5kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Religion$32kEducation$6kPhilanthropy$2kHuman Services$2kHealth$1kRecreation & Sports$700Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Anne Catholic School$3,8881n/a
Diocese of Beaumont$3,0001n/a
United Way of Greater Houston$1,00010%
Grand Canyon University$1,00010%
The John Paul II Foundation for Life and Family$1,00010%
United Way of Beaumont & North Jefferson County$1,00010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,00010%
40 Days for Life$1,00010%
Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas$1,00010%
Beaumont Area Swim Team Inc$70012%
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All grantees of The Stephenson Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Anne Catholic School$3,8881n/a
Diocese of Beaumont$3,0001n/a
United Way of Greater Houston$1,00010%
Grand Canyon University$1,00010%
The John Paul II Foundation for Life and Family$1,00010%
United Way of Beaumont & North Jefferson County$1,00010%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,00010%
40 Days for Life$1,00010%
Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas$1,00010%
Beaumont Area Swim Team Inc$70012%
Birthright of Beaumont$50010%
Girls' Haven Inc$3910%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($29k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Stephenson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Canyon University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe John Paul II Foundation for Life and Family: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Beaumont & North Jefferson County: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget40 Days for Life: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of Southeast Texas: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeaumont Area Swim Team Inc: $700 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBirthright of Beaumont: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGirls' Haven Inc: $39 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Gay D and William F Scott Family FoundationDE13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gay D and William F Scott Family Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Stephenson Family Foundation

How much does The Stephenson Family Foundation give?
The Stephenson Family Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $28,826 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
What does The Stephenson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (71%), Education (14%), Philanthropy (4%).
Who are The Stephenson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: St Anne Catholic School ($4k), Diocese of Beaumont ($3k), United Way of Greater Houston ($1k).
Does The Stephenson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Stephenson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Stephenson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gay D and William F Scott Family Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.
Where is The Stephenson Family Foundation based?
The Stephenson Family Foundation is based in TX.

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 20 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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