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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

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$543kYouth Development$486kHealth$192kPublic Safety & Disaster$144kReligion$73kPhilanthropy$71kFood & Nutrition$60kRecreation & Sports$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $214,950, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,054,179 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,839,229 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $163k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Center for Disability Services$9,000
The Boys & Girls Club of Schenectady$9,000
Mechanicville Area Community Services Center$8,200
Catholic Charities of Saratoga County$8,000
Wellspring$8,000
Girls Inc of the Greater Capital Region$8,000
Girl Scouts of NENY$7,500
Saratoga Regional YMCA$7,500
Things of My Very Own Inc$7,500
Troy Youth Association$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Captain Youth and Family Services: $10k → 7%Little Falls Youth & Family Center (YMCA): $6k → 12%Children's Home of Jefferson County: $7k → 14%Captain Community Human Services Inc: $10k → 7%Children's Home of Jefferson County: $7k → 14%Captain Community Human Services Inc: $10k → 7%Children's Home of Jefferson County: $6k → 14%Captain Community Human Services Inc: $10k → 7%Children's Home of Jefferson County: $6k → 14%Captain Youth and Family Services: $9k → 7%Children's Home of Jefferson County: $6k → 14%Captain Youth and Family Services: $9k → 7%Children's Home of Jefferson County: $6k → 14%Captain Youth and Family Services: $8k → 7%Children's Home of Jefferson County: $6k → 14%Captain Youth and Family Services: $7k → 7%Wellspring: $9k → 7%Wellspring: $8k → 7%Wellspring: $8k → 7%Wellspring: $8k → 7%Wellspring: $8k → 7%Wellspring: $8k → 7%Things of My Very Own Inc: $8k → 12%THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $7k → 12%THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $7k → 12%Wellspring: $7k → 7%Wellspring: $7k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 29 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
8

Total granted

$1.6M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+13%

Still filing today

86%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SP
    ST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +46%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +26%
  • SI
    SCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • SP
    SARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +84%
  • ES
    EMPIRE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +79%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue -12%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Jewish Community Center of Schenectady Inc

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.

Religion
2
Boys and Girls Club of Syracuse

To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

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3
Ymca of Central and Northern Westchester Ny Inc

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 -…

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4
Suny Cortland Child Care Center Inc

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…

Human Services
5
The Railroad and Local Young Mens Christian Association of Oneonta Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Nyack Center

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…

Human Services
7
Boys & Girls Club the Northern Neck

To inspire and to enable all young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens

Youth Development
8
Greater Johnstown Community Ymca

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…

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9
The Fulton County Young Men's Christian Association Inc

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…

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10
Young Mens Christian Association

Youth and family social services

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11
The Young Men's Christian Association of the Capital District (4416)

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…

Human Services
12
Syracuse Northeast Community Center Inc

The mission of sncc is to engage, grow and connect neighbors.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Schenectady Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
24/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN RED CROSS: $144,250 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $93,500 · OtherST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCSCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC: $72,500 · OtherSCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INCSaratoga Regional YMCA: $59,500 · OtherSaratoga Regional YMCACATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SARATOGA WARREN AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES: $58,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SARATOGA WARREN AND WASHIN…WGHQ Happy Christmas Fund Inc: $55,500 · OtherWGHQ Happy Christmas Fund IncFAMILY YMCA OF THE GLENS FALLS AREA INC: $55,500 · OtherFAMILY YMCA OF THE GLENS FALLS AREA INCSt Johnsville Youth Center: $42,600 · OtherSt Johnsville Youth CenterCity of Saratoga Springs: $27,500 · Other+8 more: $103,000 · Other+8 moreTwin Rivers Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: $68,000 · Youth DevelopmentTwin Rivers Council Inc Bo…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC: $66,750 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SC…GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK: $65,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEASTER…Troy Youth Association Inc: $59,750 · Youth DevelopmentTroy Youth Association IncGIRLS INC OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION: $58,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC OF THE GREATER C…GLENS FALLS AREA YOUTH CENTER INC: $50,500 · Youth DevelopmentGLENS FALLS AREA YOUTH CEN…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $16,500 · Youth DevelopmentCAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $72,000 · Human ServicesCAPTAIN COMMUN…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE & RAPE CRISIS SERVICES OF SARATOGA COUNTY INC: $62,194 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLE…CHILDREN'S HOME OF JEFFERSON COUNTY: $43,250 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOM…THINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $20,500 · Human ServicesTHINGS OF MY V…UNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION: $14,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF …+1 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC: $76,500 · HealthCENTER FOR…MECHANICVILLE AREA COMM SRVCS CTR INC: $60,050 · HealthMECHANICVI…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALBANY INC: $16,250 · HealthRONALD MCD…NATHAN LITTAUER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $5,800 · HealthFOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC: $60,000 · Food & NutritionFAMILIES IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE INC: $36,000 · Food & NutritionCHRISTMAS BUREAU INCORPORATED: $57,250 · PhilanthropySTILLWATER AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $51,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$711,850Youth Development$385,500Human Services$217,444Health$158,600Food & Nutrition$96,000Philanthropy$57,250Recreation & Sports$51,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST PETER'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $93,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICESINC: $76,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSCHENECTADY INNER CITY MINISTRY INC: $72,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $72,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTwin Rivers Council Inc Boy Scouts of America: $68,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SCHENECTADY INC: $66,750 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK: $65,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE & RAPE CRISIS SERVICES OF SARATOGA COUNTY INC: $62,194 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMECHANICVILLE AREA COMM SRVCS CTR INC: $60,050 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD PANTRIES FOR THE CAPITAL DISTRICT INC: $60,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTroy Youth Association Inc: $59,750 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetSaratoga Regional YMCA: $59,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INC OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION: $58,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCHRISTMAS BUREAU INCORPORATED: $57,250 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetWGHQ Happy Christmas Fund Inc: $55,500 over 8y, 48% of budgetFAMILY YMCA OF THE GLENS FALLS AREA INC: $55,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSTILLWATER AREA COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER INC: $51,500 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetGLENS FALLS AREA YOUTH CENTER INC: $50,500 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME OF JEFFERSON COUNTY: $43,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES IN NEED OF ASSISTANCE INC: $36,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetTHINGS OF MY VERY OWN INC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSARATOGA PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEMPIRE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK: $18,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CAPITAL AREA: $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ALBANY INC: $16,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVANDERHEYDEN HALL INC: $16,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER CAPITAL REGION: $14,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLP-EC QUALITY DESTINATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPARAMOUNT CENTER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOHOES COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATHAN LITTAUER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $5,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEAST SIDE NEIGHBORHD RECREATION CTR INC HOPE 7 COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,250 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Price Chopper's Golub…Pioneer Bank Charitab…Capital District Phys…United Way of the Gre…Review FoundationCharles R Wood Founda…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Mvp Health Plan IncJM McDonald Foundatio…Sunmark Charitable Co…Capital Communication…
The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region IncNY51.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stewart's Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stewart's Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Stewart's Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Stewart's Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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