· Private foundation
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 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 $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 |
| NOTRE DAME SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE - CAPERNAUM BATON ROUGE | $20,000 |
| TRINITY FORUM | $20,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| MENTOR KIDS USA | $10,000 |
| IRON ACADEMY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +39% since the first grant, against +39% for those 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
How this is measured
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 - AZone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
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
How this is measured
53 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. 53 of the 116 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 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 Trinity Christian High School ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS AREA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMBASSADOR CHRISTIAN ACADEMY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN APPALACHIAN TEEN CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds SERVE MANAGEMENT GROUP INC DBA MISSION SERVE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Stover Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stover Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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