· Community foundation
Stewart's Foundation
To collect donations at individual stewarts shops and use funds to support 501(c)(3) charitable organizations and to promote and foster the tax exempt purposes
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.
The 27 grants below total $214,950 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,054,179 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,839,229 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $163k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Red Cross of NENY | $19,500 |
| St Peter's Hospital Foundation | $12,000 |
| Captain Community Human Services Inc | $10,000 |
| Food Pantries for the Capital District Inc | $10,000 |
| Sycamore Collaborative | $9,250 |
| The Boys & Girls Club of Schenectady | $9,000 |
| Center for Disability Services | $9,000 |
| Mechanicville Area Community Services Center | $8,200 |
| Wellspring | $8,000 |
| Catholic Charities of Saratoga County | $8,000 |
| Girls Inc of the Greater Capital Region | $8,000 |
| Girl Scouts of NENY | $7,500 |
| Things of My Very Own Inc | $7,500 |
| Saratoga Regional YMCA | $7,500 |
| Troy Youth Association | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 34% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- SPST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +46%
- CFCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +26%
- SISCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- ESEMPIRE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +79%
- SPSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +84%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGIONone grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue -12%
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.
Our mission is to build a vibrant, welcoming, and inclusive community that embraces our jewish values, culture, identity and connections to israel, engages the local community, and enhances the body, mind and spirit of our members.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
The ymca strengthen's the community by providing quality programs that promote youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. we are a y without walls model. as a community based service provider, we remain flexible -…
The suny cortland child care center is dedicated to providing affordable child care for the children of the college's employees and students, which meets the highest nationally recognized standards. qualified staff provide an educational…
The Oneonta Family YMCA is a non-profit charitable organization that includes men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races, and religions. Its mission is to improve the spiritual, mental, social, and physical condition…
Nyack Center (the organization or the center) is a not-for-profit agency located in Nyack, New York that provides space and programs for community-building, community celebration, and community services for residents of Nyack and all of…
To inspire and to enable all young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens
The greater johnstown ymca is a membership association of men and women of all ages, income, races and religions. the association is dedicated to improving the quaility of life through programs and services which provide opportunities for…
Fulton county ymca is dedicated to the promotion of fitness & healthy lifestyles, strengthening family life, community development, the instillment of leadership qualitities in our young people, and strengthened international…
Youth and family social services
The YMCA's mission is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. The YMCA is one of the nation's leading non-profit organizations. At the Capital District YMCA, we…
The mission of sncc is to engage, grow and connect neighbors.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Schenectady Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wghq Happy Christmas Fund 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 50 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 38 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 ST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC ↗
- Who funds SCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Twin Rivers Council Inc Boy Scouts of America ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & RAPE CRISIS SERVICES OF SARATOGA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MECHANICVILLE AREA COMM SRVCS CTR INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds Troy Youth Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Saratoga Regional YMCA ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS BUREAU INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FAMILY YMCA OF THE GLENS FALLS AREA INC ↗
- Who funds WGHQ Happy Christmas Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds STILLWATER AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GLENS FALLS AREA YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF JEFFERSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC ↗
- Who funds EMPIRE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CAPITAL AREA ↗
- Who funds VANDERHEYDEN HALL INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALBANY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds LP-EC QUALITY DESTINATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARAMOUNT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COHOES COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATHAN LITTAUER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EAST SIDE NEIGHBORHD RECREATION CTR INC HOPE 7 COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
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: The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Pioneer Bank Charitable Foundation · Capital District Physicians' Health Plan Inc · United Way of the Greater Capital Region · Review Foundation · Charles R Wood Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Mvp Health Plan Inc · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Sunmark Charitable Community Foundation · Capital Communications Cares Foundation
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's 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.
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.
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