· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH | $15,000 |
| UVA PARENTS FUND | $10,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY FUND | $10,000 |
| IDAHO BASECAMP | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| MONARCH JOINT VENTURE | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE CARMEL VALLEY COMMUNITY CHAPEL | $4,000 |
| HK 21 INC | $2,000 |
| KIWANIS CLUB OF MERCED | $1,500 |
| WOOD RIVER WOMEN FOUNDATION | $1,100 |
| THE ARGYROS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $1,000 |
| THE MERCED COUNTY FOOD BANK | $600 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FLFRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC4× · 2019–2025 · $65k · revenue +110%
- MCMERCED COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY5× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +305%
- CHCRICKETS HOPE INC4× · 2018–2022 · $31k · revenue +429%
Funded once
- HGHIGHER GROUND IMUA KAKOU HAWAIIone grant, 2024 · $20k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STANISLAUSone grant, 2019 · $15k
- HIHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUSTone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Santa catalina school exists to develop in each student a striving for excellence, a maturing awareness of moral and spiritual values, a sense of responsible purpose, and a determination to serve the world with courage, grace, and…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…
Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…
To pursue policies that will improve student access, promote student success, engage and empower local student leaders, and enrich the collegiate experience for all of the california community college students.
As your financial institution, we pledge to serve you and our community faithfully. we will be friendly, helpful, and professional, and we will provide great products and competitive rates.
To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.
Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…
The uc merced foundation was formed for the purpose of encouraging voluntary private gifts, trusts, and bequests for the benefit of the university of california, merced.
To support quality educational programs in the arts, dance, drama, music and in physical education for each child in the mill valley school district.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Human Services and the most unlike its peers is Crickets Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
48 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 105 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds MERCED COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CRICKETS HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY STANISLAUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HEARTS AFIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE OF MODESTO INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Merced College Foundation ↗
- Who funds IDAHO BASE CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds MERCED THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCED COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds STANISLAUS BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE OLMSTED PARKS CONSERVANCY IN ↗
- Who funds MONARCH JOINT VENTURE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Stanislaus Community Foundation · The Bright Family Foundation · The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Community Foundation of Merced County · United Way of Merced County · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation · Spur Community Foundation Inc · The Springcreek Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Idaho Community Foundation Inc
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.
- The Community School Inc — 0% of income from government
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.