Missouri · Private foundation
Steward Family 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.
- $10M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $350,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,561,133
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Steward Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $10M | 67% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $9.6M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $12M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $9.5M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $9.2M | 75% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $13M | 44% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $21M | 60% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $18M | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Greater St Louis Inc | $108,064,751 | 9 | 20% |
| The Wendell Scott Foundation Inc | $1,035,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Life Arts Inc | $653,500 | 1 | 79% |
| The Areion Foundation Inc | $350,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Biblical Business Training Inc Dba Bbt | $300,000 | 4 | 42% |
| Jazz St Louis | $294,630 | 1 | 9% |
| Jonathan Project Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 52% |
| Washington University | $213,825 | 3 | 0% |
| Ezra Vision Ministries Inc | $210,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Congregation of the Mission Midwest Province | $160,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 41 grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Steward Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Centene Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation · Washington University · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Edward Jones Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Edward Jones Foundation
How this is measured
About Steward Family Foundation
- How much does Steward Family Foundation give?
- Steward Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $10,011,133 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Steward Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (94%), Religion (3%), Arts & Culture (1%).
- Who are Steward Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Greater St Louis Inc ($108M), The Wendell Scott Foundation Inc ($1.0M), Life Arts Inc ($654k).
- Does Steward Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Steward Family 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 Steward Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater St Louis Inc, World Wide Technology Foundation, St Louis Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Steward Family Foundation based?
- Steward Family Foundation is based in MO.
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