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Sarah a Stewart Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$390k
Granted FY2022
11
Grants FY2022
11
Organizations funded FY2022
18%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$130,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 24
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 18% of the organizations Sarah a Stewart Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
HealthEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalOther
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
FY202211$390k18%
FY202120$420k20%
FY202021$385k29%
FY201924$405k33%
FY201824$390k54%
FY201720$375kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Religion$765kHuman Services$292kFood & Nutrition$218kHousing & Shelter$195kEducation$169kArts & Culture$147kHealth$103kEnvironment$77kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
NY
MA
OR
CA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nataraja Yoga Ashram$725,0006n/a
Pomona College$150,00040%
Central City Concern$140,00040%
Oregon Food Bank$110,00060%
Neighborhood House Inc$107,00051%
Redwood Empire Food Bank$70,00050%
State of Safety$53,000214%
Blanchet House of Hospitality$50,00030%
Mercy Corps$45,00010%
Artists Repertory Theatre$40,00040%
Show all 34 grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($579k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sarah a Stewart Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPomona College: $150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCentral City Concern: $140,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOregon Food Bank: $110,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood House Inc: $107,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRedwood Empire Food Bank: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetState of Safety: $53,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetBlanchet House of Hospitality: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMercy Corps: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArtists Repertory Theatre: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Brain Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNorthwest Abortion Access Fund: $27,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSierra Club Foundation: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute for Poetic Medicine: $25,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetStreet Roots Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Library Foundation: $11,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOregon Rail Heritage Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetElakha Alliance: $10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSiletz Tribal Arts and Heritage Society: $6,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetOld Sturbridge Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreenWood: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetOregon Humane Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPear: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Loaves: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMomentum Alliance: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNative Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR31.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Juan Young Trust · Onpoint Community Credit Union · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Seeding Justice · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · Hillman Family Foundations

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.

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How do I get to Sarah a Stewart Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sarah a 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.

About Sarah a Stewart Foundation

How much does Sarah a Stewart Foundation give?
Sarah a Stewart Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $390,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Sarah a Stewart Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Religion (32%), Human Services (12%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
Who are Sarah a Stewart Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Nataraja Yoga Ashram ($725k), Pomona College ($150k), Central City Concern ($140k).
Does Sarah a Stewart Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sarah a Stewart Foundation 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 Sarah a Stewart Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, The Collins Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust.
Where is Sarah a Stewart Foundation based?
Sarah a Stewart Foundation is based in CA.

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 53 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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