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Center for Community Stewardship

Our mission is to empower community-based organizations to build a more just and equitable society. We do this through fiscal sponsorship, coaching, training, and administrative support.

$191k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Itemized grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$124k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$74,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 10
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1.9M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Center for Community Stewardship funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’23
Community ImprovementEducationArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$124k0%
FY20235$198k60%
FY202110$284k80%
FY20208$234kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$410kHealth$184kEmployment$125kEducation$91kRecreation & Sports$20kArts & Culture$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Anesis Center for Marriage and Family Therapy$166,6002n/a
Madison Workers Cooperative$129,930424%
Worker Justice Wisconsin$115,000415%
University of Wisconsin Madison$90,9491n/a
Slide LLC$67,5441n/a
Cocovaa Chocolatier$51,4791n/a
The Nehemiah Community Development Corporation$30,00011%
Collaboration for Good$30,0001n/a
Roots 4 Change Cooperative$23,0001n/a
University of Wisconsin Foundation$20,00010%
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All grantees of Center for Community Stewardship by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Anesis Center for Marriage and Family Therapy$166,6002n/a
Madison Workers Cooperative$129,930424%
Worker Justice Wisconsin$115,000415%
University of Wisconsin Madison$90,9491n/a
Slide LLC$67,5441n/a
Cocovaa Chocolatier$51,4791n/a
The Nehemiah Community Development Corporation$30,00011%
Collaboration for Good$30,0001n/a
Roots 4 Change Cooperative$23,0001n/a
University of Wisconsin Foundation$20,00010%
Fair Oaks Diner$18,9051n/a
Get It Right Educators' Cooperative$10,0001n/a
Communication Madison$10,0001n/a
Community Pharmacy$10,0001n/a
Macha Inc$10,0001n/a
Small Axe Cooperative$10,0001n/a
Madison Cycleworks Cooperative$9,4481n/a
Sweet Water Liberation Lab LLC$7,0002n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

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How do I get to Center for Community Stewardship?

Find your warmest path to Center for Community Stewardship through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Center for Community Stewardship

How much does Center for Community Stewardship give?
Center for Community Stewardship reported 3 itemized grants totaling $124,000, out of $191,460 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Center for Community Stewardship fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (49%), Health (22%), Employment (15%).
Who are Center for Community Stewardship's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Anesis Center for Marriage and Family Therapy ($167k), Madison Workers Cooperative ($130k), Worker Justice Wisconsin ($115k).
Does Center for Community Stewardship fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Center for Community Stewardship based?
Center for Community Stewardship is based in WI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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