Tennessee · Nonprofit
THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS
THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,519 to it, the largest being ISRAEL BENEVOLENCE FUND INC ($203,995). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $938k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $446k
- Net assets
- $142k
What The House of Stephanas does
Mission
Humanitarian organization providing educational, food and clothing distribution, camps for children and youth; assistance to widows, single parent families, homeless, Holocaust survivors, immigrants, victims of drug abuse and sex trafficking, war refugees, medical and equipment supplies to soldiers, and various activities in the US and internationally.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Light to the Nations provides teaching, tours, hospitality to the poor, soldiers, youth and elderly.
$188,532 spent$186,129 earned by the program20% of program spendingAbundant Life provides food, clothing, and practical services to include hair and nail salon to drug addicts, victims of sex trafficking, and homeless along with providing pro-life counseling and services.
$93,217 spent$80,277 earned by the program10% of program spendingHamaayan Congregation/Tony & Orna Sperandeo- Non-denominational congregation of members from multiple nations; founded in 1989 serving community needs of food, clothing, education, arts, counseling and various other ministries.
$90,603 spent$90,075 earned by the program10% of program spendingOther Program Services to include: Ot O Mofet/Orna Grinman, Streams in the Desert/Marianna Gol, Dr. Isaac & Angeline Obure/Future Life Christian Ministries, Hephzibah Caanan/Danny & Tammy Meyuseff, New Living Israel/Michael Savdosky, Yuval Arts/Yoel & Liel Davis, Operation Mobilization/Bill Rogers, Operation Mobilization/Tracy VanEck, Christian Fellowship International/Olga Kopilova, Yom Ahavato Congregation, Congregation Hasdey Yeshua, Netivah Center, Sonrise Ministries/Paul Karpinko, Aviv Center/Dov Binkas, Shlomit Shaul, Ophir Orel, Sally Shiff, Dr. Cristian Ile, Ophir Orel
$562,974 spent$563,075 earned by the program60% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $935,326.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2023 to 2024, from $87k to $151k (+73%).
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.
2% of THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $35k → $90k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS’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
THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
86% 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 THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 92% · 2019 85% · 2020 47% · 2021 70% · 2022 80% · 2023 60% — 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.
Where its funders are
THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS has grown faster than half of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS: 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 THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS?
- THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS (Tennessee) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $445,519 to it, the largest being ISRAEL BENEVOLENCE FUND INC ($203,995). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $445,519 in grants to THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS?
- ISRAEL BENEVOLENCE FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $203,995 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE HOUSE OF STEPHANAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing