· Private foundation
Stewart Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $25,000 |
| NORWALK HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER | $20,000 |
| MAKE A WISH | $1,000 |
| STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN | $1,000 |
| FAIRFIELD COUNTY HOUSE | $1,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| GET ABOUT | $500 |
| CONCRETE JUNGLE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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 (FY18–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
SMILE TRAIN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +19%- SPSTAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC7× · 2018–2024 · $6k · revenue +34%
- NCNEW CANAAN EMS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- VNVISITING NURSE HOSPICE HOUSEone grant, 2021 · $1k
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +89%
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.
To provide healthcare services.
To provide meals to the elderly, sick & disabled in the town of greenwich, ct.
In 1974 the connecticut hospice inc., a 501(c)(3) not for profit, founded america's hospice movement, almost 50 years later, we continue to set the national standard for home and inpatient hospice care and have become a leader in…
Volunteer fire department
To provide the highest quality specialty medical care to patients with diabetes and diabetes related conditions and to search for a cure.
The mission of new england baptist hospital (nebh or hospital) is the operation and maintenance of an acute care, orthopedic specialty hospital and provision of all services related thereto for the benefit of patients. nebh strives to…
Care new england is devoted to continually improving the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve. please refer to schedule o for the organization's community benefit statement.
Volunteer community ambulance which services the entire town of new milford, ct. new milford is the largest town in ct. the volunteers are fully trained emts and medical services are provided.
The mission of ynhh is to provide innovative and excellent patient care, teaching, research, and service to the communities it serves.
To provide medical care in the westerly, rhode island community and surrounding towns.
The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…
To support its member healthcare organizations further innovation and excellence in patient care, teaching, and research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc and the most unlike its peers is Joslin Diabetes Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 23 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 JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN EMS INC ↗
- Who funds GETABOUT INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
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: Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% 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.