Michigan · Private foundation
Fidelity Stewards Fund
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.
- $475k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
63% of Fidelity Stewards Fund’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Barnabas Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 21
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Fidelity Stewards Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $175k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $194k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $211k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $161k | 47% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $199k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $149k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr James Dobson Family Institute | $210,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kalamazoo Gospel Mission | $160,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Mel Trotter Ministries | $105,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lighthouse Ministries Inc | $75,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Focus on the Family | $55,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Exodus Place | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($446k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Fidelity Stewards Fund
- How much does Fidelity Stewards Fund give?
- Fidelity Stewards Fund reported 9 grants totaling $475,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Fidelity Stewards Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (46%), Philanthropy (32%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
- Who are Fidelity Stewards Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Dr James Dobson Family Institute ($210k), Kalamazoo Gospel Mission ($160k), Mel Trotter Ministries ($105k).
- Does Fidelity Stewards Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fidelity Stewards Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fidelity Stewards Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Fidelity Stewards Fund based?
- Fidelity Stewards Fund is based in MI.
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