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Stewart Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$103k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$547kHuman Services$46kPhilanthropy$46kHealth$31kReligion$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$15kInternational$5kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$50,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$29,500
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY$20,000
THE CARTER CENTER$2,500
EAST ROCHESTER ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 14%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CA
KY
VA
KS
DC
OK
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$692k · 21 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
25

Total granted

$692k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+12%

Still filing today

62%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalAnimalsHealthEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Cornell University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $330k · revenue +59%
  • ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $189k · revenue +4%
  • WF
    WELLESLEY FRIENDLY AID ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • Y
    YWCA
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

—
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jitegemee Inc. 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

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cornell University: $329,500 · EducationCornell UniversityST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $189,000 · EducationST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY+6 more: $26,647 · EducationFIDELITY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $45,500 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE FOUND…SALVATION ARMY: $20,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYWELLESLEY FRIENDLY AID ASSOCIATION: $16,000 · OtherWELLESLEY FRIENDLY AID AS…WELLESLEY CHURCH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $14,000 · OtherWELLESLEY CHURCH CONGREGA…MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $11,500 · OtherMASS GENERAL HOSPITALFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF WELLESLEY HILLS: $9,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHUR…NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL: $8,000 · Other+21 more: $42,000 · Other+21 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $13,500 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $2,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $1,000 · InternationalChildren's Hospital Corporation: $2,250 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · HealthUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $3,000 · Public BenefitTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO: $1,000 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 · Animals
Education$545,147Other$166,000Human Services$16,500International$4,500Health$3,250Public Benefit$3,000Animals$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCornell University: $329,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $189,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWELLESLEY FRIENDLY AID ASSOCIATION: $16,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEAST ROCHESTER ALUMNI FOUNDATION INC: $1,897 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetWellesley Education Foundation Inc: $1,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJITEGEMEE INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSENECA STREET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ROCHESTER & MONROE COUNTY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLESLEY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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 Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stewart Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stewart Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 48 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home