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STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC

STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,783,143 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,731,600). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

$1.3M
Revenue FY2024
27
Funders on record
$3.8M
Grants received
$853k
Net assets
15/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%

Against its field

STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · above the median
Months of reserve7.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.3M) Expenses 100 ($1.3M) Net assets 100 ($249k)2018 Revenue 96 ($1.2M) Expenses 103 ($1.4M) Net assets 52 ($128k)2019 Revenue 93 ($1.2M) Expenses 61 ($819k) Net assets 207 ($515k)2020 Revenue 89 ($1.2M) Expenses 82 ($1.1M) Net assets 229 ($569k)2021 Revenue 135 ($1.7M) Expenses 71 ($950k) Net assets 631 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 84 ($1.1M) Expenses 149 ($2.0M) Net assets 228 ($566k)2023 Revenue 137 ($1.8M) Expenses 139 ($1.9M) Net assets 197 ($489k)2024 Revenue 101 ($1.3M) Expenses 71 ($941k) Net assets 343 ($853k)
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Revenue (101)Expenses (71)Net assets (343)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,048 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$37k
17
$120k
18
$387k
19
$54k
20
$797k
21
$893k
22
$77k
23
$363k
24
7.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $404k → $843k.

14 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)85% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

88% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC.

46%
largest funder
71%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 68% · 2019 85% · 2020 66% · 2021 46% · 2022 68% · 2023 47%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

50% of STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

85% of STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $557k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI
PA
VA
TN
NC
GA
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 27 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Michigan

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 8%Fundraising 22%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

75%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC?
STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC (Michigan) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,783,143 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($1,731,600). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $3,783,143 in grants to STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,731,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STEPHEN'S CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 27funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing