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The Stover 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 $10k7 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $291k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $535k
- $250k+2 grants · $560k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARDERE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $310,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $250,000 |
| WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $150,000 |
| THE DUNHAM SCHOOL | $135,000 |
| CLOSER TO GOD EPC CHURCH | $50,000 |
| THE C S LEWIS INSTITUTE | $41,000 |
| ANNAPOLIS AREA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH | $25,000 |
| TRINITY FORUM | $20,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE - CAPERNAUM BATON ROUGE | $20,000 |
| NOTRE DAME SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| MENTOR KIDS USA | $10,000 |
| THE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $497k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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 +39% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
73 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 50 since wound down; 7 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k 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
- WUWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +17%
- YLYOUNG LIFE8× · 2018–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +39%
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM9× · 2017–2025 · $871k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- YLYOUNG LIFE - WOODLEAF CAMPAIGNone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
- CUCHRISTIAN UNIONone grant, 2018 · $60k
- YLYOUNG LIFE - WILDHORSEone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…
Our mission at temple christian school is to glorify god by providing for students a christ-centered education marked by excellence and grounded in biblical truth.
Oconee Christian Academy exists to glorify God by nurturing students and equipping them to fulfill God's unique purpose for their lives.
To partner with parents to provide christ-centered, biblically based, classical education that nurtures the whole child.
Christian education, pre-k through 12th grade
The christian academy provides christian education to 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade. the christian academy is a college-preparatory school.
Summit Classical Christian School is a PreK-12 school that exists to cultivate generations of joyful disciples of Christ by partnering with faithful Christian families to educate their children from a Biblical worldview using classical…
Tyndale christian school provides a distinctively christian education devoted to cultivating academic excellence and love for all that is gods.
Provide a distinctly Christ-centered, biblical and classical education producing students who glorify God in their thoughts, words and deeds.
Christ life academy is a kingdom education school, partnering with christian parents in their role of educating and discipling their children, by providing academic excellence and training students to think biblically and critically in all…
The mission is to glorify god by partnering with christian families to provide an academically excellent education that approaches every discipline from a christ-centered, biblical perspective.
Bethlehem christian school is a non-denominational school that provides a complete educational program that is biblically sound, christ-centered and of excellent academic standards
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Union Inc and the most unlike its peers is Outlook Mountain Mission Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 116 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 WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds GARDERE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRINITY FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA CHRISTIAN STUDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LIFESPRING COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE VERITAS FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CS Lewis Institute ↗
- Who funds THE TIMOTHY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Veritas Christian Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds The Trinity Christian School Non-Profit Corporation ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS AREA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Trinity Christian High School ↗
- Who funds SERVE MANAGEMENT GROUP INC DBA MISSION SERVE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN APPALACHIAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
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: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation 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 Stover 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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