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Winifred Stevens Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k55 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k58 grants · $5.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,820,000 |
| UPPER COLUMBIA CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS | $380,000 |
| GENERAL CONFERENCE HEALTH MINISTRIES | $270,000 |
| LIBERTY IN NORTH KOREA | $200,000 |
| HOLBROOK INDIAN SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL | $150,000 |
| PINE FORGE ACADEMY | $150,000 |
| WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| EQUALITY NOW INC | $145,000 |
| ASAP MINISTRIES INC | $130,000 |
| OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC | $125,000 |
| POTOMAC CONFERENCE CORPORATION OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS | $125,000 |
| HOLBROOK INDIAN SCHOOL | $123,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH | $121,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of Winifred Stevens Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +20% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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
- ADADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL7× · 2018–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +87%
- WWWALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +4%
- LGLINK GLOBAL7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +18%
Funded once
- HFHARBOR FUND INCone grant, 2019 · $1.2M · revenue -155%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $800k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $500k
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.
Compelled by a deep passion for justice and mercy, World Renew joins communities around the world to renew hope, reconcile lives, and restore creation with programs focused on disaster response, community health, economic opportunity, food…
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…
Living Water International ("Living Water") exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities in 17 developing countries acquire desperately needed clean water and to experience "living water" - the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community
ACCI serves pioneering Christians, empowering them to proclaim the gospel, fulfill their God-given visions, and advance the kingdom of God. ACCI longs for a world where lives are transformed through the Holy Spirit, where new disciples are…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Impact International and the most unlike its peers is Manasseh's Children Dba Ujamaa-Africa. 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 44 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 164 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 CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RESTORE A CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds LINK GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds Light Bearers Ministry ↗
- Who funds HARBOR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Adventist Health International ↗
- Who funds Equality Now Inc ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds ASAP MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SAFE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WHITESIDE MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds ANDREWS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MANASSEH'S CHILDREN DBA UJAMAA-AFRICA ↗
- Who funds IMPACT HOPE ↗
- Who funds WHYHUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF RUTH 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: Asi Missions Inc · Versacare Inc · Adventist Community Services North America Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Sffc Foundation Inc · D&E Foundation · Popoff Family Foundation · The Hernan & Orfi Barros Foundation · The Elqui Valley Foundation · Byron Robinson Educational Foundation Inc · Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation · Peter Alfond Foundation
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 Winifred Stevens 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.
- Adventist Development & Relief Agency International — 35% of income from government
- Washington Adventist University — 4% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% 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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