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The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Health$3.2MEnvironment$756kEducation$331kRecreation & Sports$40kArts & Culture$18kPhilanthropy$10kAnimals$10kHuman Services$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 30 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetGeorge Stevens Academy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEATRIX FARRAND SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEAST HAMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEDFORD PLAYHOUSE INC: $850 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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

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 The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Martha & Alexis Stewart Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    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.

    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 30 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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