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Stewart 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.

$61k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$99kArts & Culture$7kRecreation & Sports$6kPublic Benefit$5kInternational$5kEducation$1kEnvironment$500Health$350Other$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $37k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$25k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH$37,420
RAPIDS THEATRE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC$5,000
LYON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION$5,000
CITY OF ROCK RAPIDS$5,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$3,000
RESOURCE EXCHANGE INTERNATIONAL$1,000
LYON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
ROCK RAPIDS MURAL SOCIETY$1,000
CENTRAL LYON SCHOOL FOUNDATION$1,000
ROCK RAPIDS UNITED FUND$500
IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION$500
CITY OF ROCK RAPIDS$400
IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH$140
FRIENDS OF ROCK VALLEY FOUNDATION$100
OUR REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH$50
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION: $500 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
WI
NY
SD
IA
CO
NE
VA
NC
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$104k · 14 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
11

Total granted

$104k
$670

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+21%

Still filing today

21%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
InternationalEducationRecreation & SportsReligionHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • RE
    Resource Exchange International Inc
    3× · 2017–2025 · $2k · revenue +153%
  • OG
    ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $135 · revenue +4%
  • HD
    HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $100 · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $200
  • TR
    THE ROCK COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $140
  • OR
    OAK RIVER CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $70

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Lyon Family Foundation
2
International Myeloma Foundation

Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.

Unclassified
3
International Society for Mannosido and Related Diseases

The international society of mannosidosis and related diseases is an internationally focused organization whose mission is to advocate for families affected by one of the glycoprotein storage diseases:alpha mannosidosis,…

Health
4
Midland Global Strategies

Midland global strategies serves the public as a leading provider of high-quality information on current foreign policy issues and developments. the goal is to create a more informed public with a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Public Benefit
5
Iowa Donor Network

Working together to transform lives through the gift of organ and tissue donation.

Unclassified
6
Illinois Soybean Foundation
Food & Nutrition
7
Iowa Farmers Union Education Foundation

To work with farmers, rural communities and cosumers to promote a viable system of family agriculture and a high qualtiy of life in rural communities through education , cooperation and community activism.

Education
8
The Marfan Foundation Inc

See schedule o.the marfan foundation drives research, education and support and builds community to improve outcomes, save lives and empower all people to thrive who are living with marfan, loeys-dietz, vascular ehlers-danlos syndromes,…

9
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc

The mission of gundersen lutheran medical foundation, inc. is to improve the lives of patients and our larger community through medical education, research, outreach, and the philanthropic support of gundersen health system.

Health
10
Restless Legs Syndrome Foundation

The corporation is organized to increase scientific and public understanding of restless legs syndrome or rls, to encourage and provide funding for research leading to treatments and cure for the disease, to provide support to those…

Health
11
Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota

Support the development and enhancement of sustainable farming systems through farmer-to-farmer networking, innovation, demonstration, and education.

Food & Nutrition
12
International Foundation for Gastrointes

Our mission is to inform, assist, and support people affected by gastrointestinal (gi) disorders.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lyon County Fair Association and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH — $97,720 · OtherPEACE LUTHERAN CHURCHLYON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION — $5,400 · OtherRAPIDS THEATRE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $5,000 · Other+26 more — $5,772 · OtherLYON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $3,000 · ReligionResource Exchange International Inc — $1,500 · InternationalORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC — $135 · InternationalCENTRAL LYON SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Education+1 more — $20 · EducationIOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION — $500 · Human Services
Other$113,892Recreation & Sports$5,000Religion$3,000International$1,635Education$1,020Human Services$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetResource Exchange International Inc — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL LYON SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC — $135 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC — $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC — $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds LYON COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds Resource Exchange International Inc
  • Who funds CENTRAL LYON SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds IOWA GREAT LAKES ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN INC
  • Who funds HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Dorothy E McCormack Charitable TrustIA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dorothy E McCormack Charitable Trust · Lyon County Riverboat Foundation Inc · James W and Ella B Forster Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Stewart Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report 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, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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