Skip to content

Connecticut · Public charity

Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Inc

The foundation's mission is to save lives, one swim lesson at a time and through water safety education. This is achieved by funding thousands of swim lessons for children in need, public awareness campaigns, and provision of swim lessons at stewie the duck swim school.

$403k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Itemized grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
15%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Itemized, FY2024
$226k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$24,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 13
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$5.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22’23
Human ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthOther
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 arriving21$226k52%
FY202313$359k15%
FY202211$148k9%
FY202113$151k54%
FY20198$140k50%
FY20185$107k40%
FY20175$153kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$1.0MHuman Services$102kHealth$87kEducation$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kCommunity Improvement$10kYouth Development$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($76k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCandid: $200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRegional Young Men's Christian Association of Western Connecticut Inc: $190,475 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetYMCA of Yonkers: $155,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Long Island Inc: $136,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $108,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAsphalt Green Inc: $60,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWyckoff Family YMCA: $55,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Rye New York: $54,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Ridgewood New Jersey: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Clifton Inc: $33,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIthaca College: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorizons at CT State Norwalk Inc: $24,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNch Healthcare System Inc: $17,400 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTrident Swim Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Assn of Ridgway: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGlobal Foundation for Eating Disorders: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetConnecticut Institute for Communities Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBronxworks Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Missoula Family YMCA: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Courant Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYMCA of Montclair NEW JERSEY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Newtown Community Center Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetYMCA of Westfield NJ: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 24.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

National Council of YMCAs of the USAIL25.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · The Redwoods Group Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

Compare Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Inc with peer funders

About Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Inc

How much does Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Inc give?
Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Inc reported 21 itemized grants totaling $226,000, out of $402,621 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (80%), Human Services (8%), Health (7%).
Who are Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Candid ($200k), Regional Young Men's Christian Association of Western Connecticut Inc ($190k), YMCA of Yonkers ($155k).
Does Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Council of YMCAs of the USA, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The New York Community Trust.
Where is Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Inc based?
Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Inc is based in CT.

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 32 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd’s filings →

More from the funding graph