Missouri · Nonprofit
STEPHENS COLLEGE
STEPHENS COLLEGE (Missouri) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,523,713 to it, the largest being DORIS AND BILL SCHARPF FOUNDATION ($10,004,188). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $32M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $79M
What Stephens College does
Mission
Historically committed to meeting the changing needs of women, Stephens College engages students in an innovative educational experience focused on pre-professional fields and the performing arts and grounded in the liberal arts. Graduates of stephens are career-ready women of distinction, connected through a supportive network of alumnae across the world, confident in themselves, and inspired by our tradition of the ten ideals as core values that enrich women's lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Instruction & related educational and general expenses of approximately 700 students.
$28,131,354 spentof which $7,463,121 as grants$19,746,886 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $28,131,354.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $43M to $82M (+89%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 10% · 2021 18% · 2022 10% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of STEPHENS COLLEGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
M Anne Murphy
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $875k → $2.8M.
23 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.7M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Stephens College Endowment Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money STEPHENS COLLEGE raised.
From the IRS filings of STEPHENS COLLEGE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 funders by total. 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
STEPHENS COLLEGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 26% · 2019 27% · 2020 11% · 2021 21% · 2022 14% · 2023 91% — growing more concentrated.
“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
37% of STEPHENS COLLEGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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
STEPHENS COLLEGE draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 27 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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.
Against its field
STEPHENS COLLEGE's funding base is broadening — from 24 funders to 37 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding STEPHENS COLLEGE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.6M on record.
- Department of Education$4.3M
- Department of Transportation$300k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like STEPHENS COLLEGE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STEPHENS COLLEGE: 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 STEPHENS COLLEGE?
- STEPHENS COLLEGE (Missouri) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,523,713 to it, the largest being DORIS AND BILL SCHARPF FOUNDATION ($10,004,188). 56 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEPHENS COLLEGE have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $13,523,713 in grants to STEPHENS COLLEGE, 56 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEPHENS COLLEGE?
- DORIS AND BILL SCHARPF FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $10,004,188 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEPHENS COLLEGE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 87 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing