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The Stephenson Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$77k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Anne Catholic Church$12,449
St Anne Catholic School$3,888
Diocese of Beaumont$3,000
St John Paul II Foundation$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
St Jude Childrens Research Hospital$1,000
Blessed Sacrament Parish$1,000
United Way of Beaumont$1,000
Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas$1,000
Grand Canyon University$1,000
40 Days For Life$1,000
Beaumont Area Swim Team$700
Birthright of Beaumont$500
National MS Society$250
Girls' Haven$39
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Catholic Charities of Southeast Texas: $1k → 19%Girls' Haven: $39 → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
2
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
3
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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4
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
5
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers - Greater North Texas

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
6
The Women's Resource of Greater Houston

See Schedule OThe Women's Resource of Greater Houston helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive, and financially stable. We fulfill our mission by recruiting volunteer instructors to deliver our programs in…

Philanthropy
7
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
8
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health

Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Family Planning and Preventative Health provides comprehensive and complementary health care services in settings that preserve and protect the essential privacy and rights of the individual, advocates…

Health
9
Baylor Scott & White Holdings

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
10
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
11
Birth Choice of San Marcos

Birth Choice is a Christ centered organization that provides compassionate, life-affirming care, empowering people to make educated decisions about sexual intimacy, pregnancy, and family.

Civil Rights
12
University of Mary

The University of Mary exists to serve the religious, academic and cultural needs of the people in this region and beyond.(Continued on Schedule O)

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Beaumont & North Jefferson County; the most unlike its peers is Birthright of Beaumont. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
1/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Anne Catholic Church: $18,449 · OtherSt Anne Catholic ChurchSt Martha Catholic Church: $7,100 · OtherSt Martha Catholic ChurchST ANNE CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $3,888 · OtherST ANNE CATHOLIC SCHOOLDIOCESE OF BEAUMONT: $3,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF BEAUMONT+7 more: $4,350 · Other+7 moreUnited Way of Greater Houston: $1,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BEAUMONT & NORTH JEFFERSON COUNTY: $1,000 · PhilanthropyGrand Canyon University: $1,000 · Education40 DAYS FOR LIFE: $1,000 · EducationCatholic Charities of Southeast Texas: $1,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS' HAVEN INC: $39 · Human ServicesTHE JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION FOR LIFE AND FAMILY: $1,000 · ReligionST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthBEAUMONT AREA SWIM TEAM INC: $700 · Youth Development
Other$36,787Philanthropy$2,000Education$2,000Human Services$1,039Religion$1,000Health$1,000Youth Development$700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 S…Greater Houston Commu…Shell USA Company Fou…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Stephenson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stephenson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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