Connecticut · Private foundation
Stewart Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $82k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $596k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Stewart Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 12 | $82k | 42% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $78k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $99k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $76k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $73k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $68k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $79k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $58k | 42% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joslin Diabetes Center Inc | $142,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Beth Israel Lahey Health Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $9,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Staying Put in New Canaan Inc | $6,700 | 8 | 0% |
| New Canaan EMS Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Getabout Inc | $3,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Meals-On-Wheels of New Canaan Inc | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Concrete Jungle Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 11 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Joslin Diabetes Center Inc | $142,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Beth Israel Lahey Health Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $9,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Staying Put in New Canaan Inc | $6,700 | 8 | 0% |
| New Canaan EMS Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Getabout Inc | $3,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Meals-On-Wheels of New Canaan Inc | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Concrete Jungle Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Gbscidp Foundation International Inc | $250 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($471k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stewart Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Stewart Foundation
- How much does Stewart Foundation give?
- Stewart Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $81,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Stewart Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (54%), Religion (39%), Human Services (2%).
- Who are Stewart Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Joslin Diabetes Center Inc ($142k), Beth Israel Lahey Health Inc ($20k), Smile Train Inc ($9k).
- Does Stewart Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stewart Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Stewart Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation, New Canaan Community Foundation Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Stewart Foundation based?
- Stewart Foundation is based in CT.
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