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The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$527k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$488k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$2.1MEnvironment$751kHealth$620kEducation$529kRecreation & Sports$40kArts & Culture$12kPhilanthropy$10kAnimals$10kOther$306k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $250k+1 grant · $488k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF ACADIA$487,665
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION$10,000
NORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION$10,000
DOWNTOWN UNITED SOCCER CLUB INC$5,000
CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC$5,000
PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
MOUNT DESERT LAND AND GARDEN PRESERVE$2,500
GEORGE STEVENS ACADEMY$1,000
MOUNT DESERT ISLAND SEARCH & RESCUE$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD: $5k → 7%YOGA GIVES BACK: $1k → 14%YOGA GIVES BACK: $1k → 14%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1.2M → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $879k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 6 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$3.0M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2.1M · revenue +34%
  • FO
    Friends of Acadia
    4× · 2018–2025 · $750k · revenue +43%
  • MD
    MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL
    2× · 2022–2023 · $60k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • TH
    The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue 0%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    one grant, 2024 · $496k · revenue 0%
  • COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC
    one grant, 2021 · $292k · revenue +7%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
3
The Mount Sinai Hospital

Mount sinai is committed to the advancement of the art and science of medicine through clinical excellence. the central mission consists of high-quality patient care and teaching conducted in an atmosphere of social concern and scholarly…

Health
4
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
7
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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10
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is George Stevens Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%12%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr11%15%35–55yr13%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr21%48%10–20yr18%2%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr13%21%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/26
the rest of the field
14%
10,831/78,515

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.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $2,116,312 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC+2 more — $7,000 · Human ServicesFriends of Acadia — $750,088 · EnvironmentFriends of Acadia+1 more — $1,070 · EnvironmentThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc — $500,011 · HealthThe Hospital fo…MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL — $60,000 · HealthMOUNT DESERT IS…NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $49,990 · HealthNEW YORK STEM C…+1 more — $10,000 · HealthICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $495,968 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL …BARNARD COLLEGE — $31,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLE…+2 more — $2,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC — $292,337 · Other+11 more — $33,944 · OtherFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsDowntown United Soccer Club Inc — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBEATRIX FARRAND SOCIETY — $1,000 · Arts & CultureBEDFORD PLAYHOUSE INC — $850 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$2,123,312Environment$751,158Health$620,001Education$528,968Other$326,281Recreation & Sports$40,000Arts & Culture$11,850

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $2,116,312 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFriends of Acadia — $750,088 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc — $500,011 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $495,968 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC — $292,337 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $31,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUDSON RIVER PARK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDowntown United Soccer Club Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetADOPT-A-DOG INC — $4,944 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoga Gives Back — $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $1,070 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Partners Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEATRIX FARRAND SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGeorge Stevens Academy — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEDFORD PLAYHOUSE INC — $850 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Cromwell Harbor Found…Colket Family Foundat…Cornelia Cogswell Ros…Maine Community Found…The Bessemer Giving F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Jewish Communal FundThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Cromwell Harbor Foundation IncMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cromwell Harbor Foundation Inc · Colket Family Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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