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Edith Stewart Foundation at a glance

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Edith Stewart Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$17kReligion$10kEducation$5kHealth$4kInternational$3kArts & Culture$3kPublic Benefit$2kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$23k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEXAS COASTAL CATTLEWOMEN$1,200
THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BIG SKY BRAVERY: $2k → 10%HUNTINGTON MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $500 → 9%THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY: $500 → 14%TEXAS COASTAL CATTLEWOMEN: $1k → 16%RESULTS EDUCATIONAL FUND: $125 → 14%BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY: $500 → 14%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $500 → 16%THE BROOKWOOD COMMUNITY: $500 → 14%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $500 → 16%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $485 → 16%HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE: $1k → 16%MD ANDERSON: $517 → 16%ST MARTIN EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $8k → 16%HOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%ST MARTIN EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $1k → 16%CANCARE: $500 → 16%ST MARTIN EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $1k → 16%CANCARE: $500 → 16%ST MARTIN EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $620 → 16%NEUHAUS EDUCATION CENTER: $2k → 16%YMCA: $1k → 16%YMCA TELLEPSEN: $500 → 16%WILL ERWIN HEADACHE RESEARCH FOUNDA: $52 → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $1k → 16%MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $6k → 16%MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $5k → 16%MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $4k → 16%AFA MUSIC EDUCATION COLLABORATION: $2k → 16%MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $1k → 16%MEMORIAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $1k → 16%FAITH IN PRACTICE: $1k → 16%FAITH IN PRACTICE: $1k → 16%FAITH IN PRACTICE: $750 → 16%LAMAR HS ALUMNI ASSC: $500 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33k · 6 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$33k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
0%

Still filing today

67%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHealthInternationalRecreation & SportsReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MP
    Memorial Park Conservancy Inc
    5× · 2017–2021 · $16k · revenue +138%
  • FI
    FAITH IN PRACTICE
    3× · 2017–2023 · $3k · revenue +57%
  • The Brookwood Community Inc
    3× · 2019–2025 · $2k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • TW
    The W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +35%
  • BS
    BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • AM
    AFA MUSIC EDUCATION COLLABORATION
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Memorial Hermann Medical Group

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
2
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

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3
Harris County Medical Society

Our mission is to be the leading advocate for our member physicians, their patients and our community, in promoting the highest standards of ethical medical practice, access to quality medical care, medical education, research, and…

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4
John P McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science

The Health Museum is an innovative science center that provides an interactive and entertaining experience for all ages, promotes understanding and appreciation of the human body, mind, and spirit, and inspires a lifelong commitment to…

Arts & Culture
5
Baylor Research Institute

To improve the care and well being of our community, nationally and internationally, through innovative clinically relevant research that is consistent with the mission, vision and values of Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
6
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
7
Mhs Physicians of Texas

Memorial hermann health system is a nonprofit, values-driven, community-owned health system dedicated to improving health. our vision is to create healthier communities, now and for generations to come. our values are community,…

Health
8
Baylor Health Care System Foundation

To foster and support the activities and purposes of Baylor Scott & White Health, to encourage broad-based public support of the health care system and its affiliated institutions, and to advance the medical objectives, including…

Health
9
Texas Heart Medical Group

To provide cutting-edge cardiac care to diagnose, treat, and prevent cardiovascular diseases.

Health
10
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
11
HealthTexas Provider Network

To deliver the highest value patient experience through quality, safety, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness, enhanced by medical education and research in collaboration with Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH).

Health
12
Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation

To recognize the accomplishments and contributions of our outstanding Texas business leaders and to perpetuate and inspire the values of entrepreneurial spirit, personal integrity, and community leadership in all generations of Texans.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Eye Associates Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Big Sky Bravery Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10,389 · OtherST MARTINS EPISCOPAL CHURCHThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation: $2,000 · OtherThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial FoundationAFA MUSIC EDUCATION COLLABORATION: $1,500 · OtherAFA MUSIC EDUCATION COLLABORATIONMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $1,485 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTSYMCA: $1,250 · OtherYMCAHOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherHouston Museum of Natural Science: $1,000 · Other+6 more: $2,717 · Other+6 moreMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $16,030 · EnvironmentMemorial Park Conservancy Inc+1 more: $52 · EnvironmentFAITH IN PRACTICE: $3,000 · InternationalThe Brookwood Community Inc: $1,500 · EducationTexas Coastal Cattlewomen: $1,200 · EducationRESULTS EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $125 · EducationBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Public BenefitSPRING BRANCH-MEMORIAL SPORTS ASSOC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsCANCARE INC: $1,000 · Religion
Other$23,341Environment$16,082International$3,000Education$2,825Public Benefit$2,000Recreation & Sports$1,000Religion$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMemorial Park Conservancy Inc: $16,030 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH IN PRACTICE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe W Oscar Neuhaus Memorial Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSTON EYE ASSOCIATES FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANCARE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILL ERWIN HEADACHE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $52 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Houston Commu…Albert & Ethel Herzst…The Ellwood FoundationVivian L Smith Founda…The William Stamps Fa…Shell USA Company Fou…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…
Greater Houston Community FoundationTX18.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Ellwood Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · Shell USA Company Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Edith Stewart Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edith Stewart Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Edith Stewart Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Edith Stewart Foundation 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.

    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 24 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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