New York · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 78%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $487,665
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 78% of the organizations The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $517k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $1.0M | 78% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $42k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $51k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $395k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $885k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $1.2M | 100% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $161k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Sinai Health System Inc | $2,116,312 | 2 | 2% |
| Friends of Acadia | $750,088 | 4 | 2% |
| The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc | $500,011 | 1 | 1% |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $495,968 | 1 | 0% |
| College of the Atlantic | $292,337 | 1 | 1% |
| Mount Desert Island Hospital | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New York STEM Cell Foundation Inc | $49,990 | 1 | n/a |
| Barnard College | $31,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Hudson River Park Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Downtown United Soccer Club Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable Foundation give?
- The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $526,665 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (73%), Environment (17%), Education (8%).
- Who are The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mount Sinai Health System Inc ($2.1M), Friends of Acadia ($750k), The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ($500k).
- Does The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cromwell Harbor Foundation Inc, Colket Family Foundation, Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable Foundation based?
- The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable Foundation is based in NY.
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