Iowa · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $37,420
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Stewart Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $960 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 | 17 | $61k | 65% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $28k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $4k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $4k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $3k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $7k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $6k | 50% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peace Lutheran Church | $97,720 | 9 | n/a |
| Lyon County Fair Association | $5,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Lyon County Fair Association | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rapids Theatre Preservation Society Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Resource Exchange International Inc | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Lyon County Historical Society | $1,420 | 5 | n/a |
| Rock Rapids Mural Society Inc | $1,020 | 2 | n/a |
| Rock Rapids United Fund | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Central Lyon School Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peace Lutheran Church | $97,720 | 9 | n/a |
| Lyon County Fair Association | $5,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Lyon County Fair Association | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rapids Theatre Preservation Society Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Resource Exchange International Inc | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Lyon County Historical Society | $1,420 | 5 | n/a |
| Rock Rapids Mural Society Inc | $1,020 | 2 | n/a |
| Rock Rapids United Fund | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Central Lyon School Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Iowa Great Lakes Association | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Orphan Grain Train Inc | $135 | 4 | 0% |
| Immanuel Lutheran Church | $120 | 3 | n/a |
| Huntington's Disease Society of America Inc | $100 | 2 | 0% |
| Our Redeemer Lutheran Church | $50 | 1 | n/a |
| Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Inc | $40 | 1 | 0% |
| Sioux Falls School District #49-5 | $27 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $20 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($2k), 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: Dorothy E McCormack Charitable Trust · Lyon County Riverboat Foundation Inc · James W and Ella B Forster Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Stewart Family Foundation
- How much does Stewart Family Foundation give?
- Stewart Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $61,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Stewart Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (79%), Arts & Culture (6%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
- Who are Stewart Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Peace Lutheran Church ($98k), Lyon County Fair Association ($5k), Lyon County Fair Association ($5k).
- Does Stewart Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stewart 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 Stewart Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dorothy E McCormack Charitable Trust, Lyon County Riverboat Foundation Inc, James W and Ella B Forster Trust.
- Where is Stewart Family Foundation based?
- Stewart Family Foundation is based in IA.
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