· Private foundation
The Stevens 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.
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 $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHEELCHAIR BOWLERS OF AMERICA | $30,000 |
| HUNDRED CLUB OF MASSACHUSETTS | $10,000 |
| MATTHEW PATTON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MALBOROUGH POLICE PATROL OFFICERS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| WALDEN WOODS PROJECT | $5,000 |
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- WSWestfield State University Foundation Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $300k · revenue +73%
- AFAimees Farm Animal Sanctuary3× · 2017–2019 · $157k · revenue +22% · 64% of their budget
- THTHE HUNDRED CLUB OF MASS INC2× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $102k
- LBLINDA BLAIR WORLD HEART FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $76k · revenue +18%
- FBFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +29%
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.
Our mission is to provide relief fort he distressed members, spouses and children of new england public safety who have been killed or injured in the line of duty. such relief may take the form of direct financial assistance to the victim…
To provide benefits to police personnel
Friends of the boston police, inc. is a non-profit formed to support the needs of the boston police department of boston, ma. their efforts include fundraising, meeting with the boston police to learn their needs, then applying funds to…
Assisting burn victims and their families.
The boston police foundation (foundation) was formed in 1993 as a charitable organization, exempt from tax under code section 501(c)(3), with the specific mission of advancing public safety by supporting and funding programs that…
The organization's primary mission is to support the membership which consists of patrolman from the manchester nh police (the "brotherhood") and to support various organizations within the town.
Labor relations with employer; labor contract and grievance negotiations, recognition of members and retirees, and health, dental, and legal defense member benefits.
Organization's primary purpose is to plan, design and establish memorial honorings of law enforcement officers slain in the line of duty in the commonwealth of massachusetts.
The fund was established to design, construct and maintain a memorial for deceased firefighters.
Raise funds to support the Charlton MA Police Department K9 unit
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Tri County Inc and the most unlike its peers is 826NYC Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 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. 18 of the 33 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 Westfield State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Aimees Farm Animal Sanctuary ↗
- Who funds LINDA BLAIR WORLD HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOX 4 SPECIAL SERVICES CANTEEN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds Old Methodist Episcopal Church of Berlin Inc dba 19 Carter ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW HAMPSHIRE INC ↗
- Who funds LAST CALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING HEROES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONLY MAKE BELIEVE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNDRED CLUB OF MASS INC ↗
- Who funds 826NYC Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW PATTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PET PANTRY OF LANCASTER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MARLBOROUGH POLICE PATROL OFFICERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS CHIEFS OF POLICE ASSOCIATION 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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Stevens Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Walden Woods Project — 6% 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.
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