· Private foundation
Stewart Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| NORWALK HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH | $20,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FAIRFIELD CO HOSPICE HOUS | $1,000 |
| STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| GET ABOUT | $500 |
| CONCRETE JUNGLE | $500 |
| GBS CIDP FDN INTL | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
SMILE TRAIN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +19%- SPSTAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC8× · 2018–2025 · $7k · revenue +34%
- NCNEW CANAAN EMS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $4k · revenue +120%
Funded once
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -3%
- FCFAIRFIELD COUNTY HOUSEone grant, 2024 · $1k
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +89%
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.
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.
The primary mission of joslin diabetes center (jdc) and joslin clinic (jc) is to provide the highest quality specialty medical care to patients with diabetes and diabetes related conditions and to engage in research focused on advancing…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
To enhance health, maximize function and transform lives.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
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 nebh patients. nebh strives to…
Lahey clinic, inc. (lci) provides the highest quality interdisciplinary and coordinated patient care, leading to the best possible outcomes and experiences for every patient, advancing medicine through research and educating tomorrow's…
The mission of northeast behavioral health corporation d/b/a beth israel lahey health behavioral services' (bilhbs) is to provide personal, compassionate, state-of-the-art, integrated behavioral healthcare that makes a difference in the…
Tertiary care academic medical center
Beth israel lahey health primary care (bilhpc) is a network of community-based physicians affiliated with the beth israel lahey health (bilh) network and serving the patients and communities served by the lahey clinic hospital d/b/a lahey…
Beth israel lahey health specialty care f/k/a northeast medical practice (bilhsc fka nmp) primary mission is to provide high-quality medical care to the patients of the lahey clinic hospital d/b/a lahey clinic, and lahey clinic peabody and…
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital - needham, inc. (bidn or hospital) is to improve the health of the communities it serves by providing high quality, personalized health care with compassion, dignity and respect for patient…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH 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 MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CONCRETE JUNGLE INC ↗
- Who funds GBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stewart Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stewart Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
How this is measured
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