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The Stewart 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.

$619k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$106k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.5MHealth$722kPhilanthropy$670kHuman Services$604kAnimals$316kArts & Culture$210kHousing & Shelter$181kYouth Development$145kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $217k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $316k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRISPUS ATTUCKS ASSOCIATION INC$105,654
YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER$90,000
PENN-MAR ORGANIZATION$70,819
YORK COUNTY SAFETY COLLABORATION$50,000
ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$33,333
LEG UP FARM$31,000
UNITED WAY$25,000
THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CECIL COUNTY$25,000
YMCA OF THE ROSES$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE$15,000
CATHOLIC HARVEST FOOD PANTRY$11,111
THE SOURCE$11,111
Individual grant recipient$10,000
WELLSPANYORK HOSPITAL$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $345k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $500 → 9%ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE: $15k → 9%ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE: $15k → 9%PAPPUS HOUSE: $22k → 9%PAPPUS HOUSE: $20k → 9%PAPPUS HOUSE: $20k → 9%MISS BOBBI'S PLACE: $10k → 9%HOSPICE & COMMUNITY CARE: $3k → 9%HOSPICE & COMMUNITY CARE: $3k → 9%HOSPICE & COMMUNITY CARE: $3k → 9%HOSPICE & COMMUNITY CARE: $3k → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $500 → 9%NEW HOPE MINISTRIES: $500 → 9%OLIVIA'S HOUSE: $728 → 9%PAPPUS HOUSE: $4k → 9%YMCA OF THE ROSES: $25k → 9%YMCA OF THE ROSES: $25k → 9%KEYSTONE KIDS SPACE: $20k → 9%KEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $20k → 9%KEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $20k → 9%KEYSTONE KIDS SPACE: $20k → 9%YMCA OF THE ROSES: $2k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $21k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $12k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $11k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $11k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $11k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $10k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $10k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $6k → 9%CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $1k → 9%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.
$4.5M · 58 repeat orgs$309k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

58 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
26

Total granted

$4.5M
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+11%

Still filing today

47%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • LA
    LOGOS ACADEMY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $357k · revenue +75%
  • YC
    YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA
    4× · 2017–2023 · $199k · revenue +17%
  • LU
    LEG UP FARM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • YC
    YORK COUNTY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2023 · $38k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $38k
  • WW
    WATER WITCH FIRE COMPANY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +65%
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
The York School

York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…

Education
2
York Hospital

York hospital is a premier community teaching hospital providing quality, cost-effective health care services strongly supporting excellence in education, and offering essential services without regard for an individual's ability to pay.

Health
3
The Young Women's Christian Association of York Pa

Ywca york is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

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4
Country Club of York

The purpose of the club is to own, operate and maintain a social organization with a clubhouse, dining facilities, golf course, and other facilities to be operated exclusively for the pleasure, recreation and other non-profit purposes of…

Recreation & Sports
5
Young Womens Christian Association of Hanover Pennsylvania

The ywca hanover is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Environment
6
York Academy Regional Charter School

With an unrelenting focus on academic excellence, the york academy regional charter school's mission is to challenge students in a diverse learning environment that opens doors for growth, opportunity and global citizenship.

Education
7
York General Health Care Services

To be our region's trusted choice for the improvement of health and delivery of quality care throughout life. to be a regional healthcare provider for the citizens of york county and its contiguous counties with readily accessible high…

Health
8
York County Children's Advocacy Center

Our mission is to reduce trauma for children and families through collaboration in child abuse investigations, prevention education, and advocacy.

Crime & Legal
9
Jewish Community Centre of York Pennsylvania

The york jewish community center creates opportunities for everyone, inspires relationships, builds a community of well-being, and enhances jewish communal life.

Human Services
10
Philadelphia Youth Sports Collaborative

The mission of philadelphia youth sports collaborative (pysc) is to dramatically enhance the capacity of youth-serving organizations in philadelphia to provide high quality, sports-based youth development programs to children in every…

Philanthropy
11
Centre County Youth Service Bureau

The youth service bureau ensures that children, youth, and families will have opportunities to realize and fulfill their potential for growth and development through their participation in a continuum of community-based, family-based, and…

Human Services
12
Youth Enrichment Services Inc

Youth enrichment services, inc. was founded in 1994 for the purpose of providing at-risk teens and low-income families residing in allegheny county a comprehensive in-home peer mentoring program, juvenile alternative to detention,…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is York County Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Water Witch Fire Company 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

44 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. 44 of the 89 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/44
Grantees still filing
30/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YORK CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $691,327 · OtherYORK CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLPENN-MAR ORGANIZATION: $329,975 · OtherPENN-MAR ORGANIZATIONCRISPUS ATTUCKS ASSOCIATION INC: $315,588 · OtherCRISPUS ATTUCKS ASSOCIATION INCYMCA OF YORK COUNTY: $302,500 · OtherYMCA OF YORK COUNTYUNITED WAY: $231,250 · OtherUNITED WAYASPEN VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $128,332 · OtherWELLSPANYORK HOSPITAL: $120,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE YOUTH HOME: $125,000 · Other+54 more: $980,090 · Other+54 moreLOGOS ACADEMY: $356,500 · EducationLOGOS ACADEM…YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $199,158 · EducationYORK COLLEGE…+1 more: $8,000 · EducationKEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $100,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $93,267 · Human ServicesPAPPUS HOUSE: $66,125 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE ROSES: $51,500 · Human ServicesACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE: $30,000 · Human Services+4 more: $23,728 · Human ServicesSUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $110,200 · HealthYORK HEALTH FOUNDATION: $93,000 · HealthUPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Health+3 more: $13,000 · HealthYORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER: $90,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE YORK: $72,500 · Arts & CultureSTRAND-CAPITOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $42,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $166,665 · PhilanthropyYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,000 · PhilanthropyPINK POWER: $7,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyLEG UP FARM INC: $160,100 · Animals
Other$3,224,062Education$563,658Human Services$364,620Health$271,200Arts & Culture$210,000Philanthropy$189,665Animals$160,100

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 budgetLOGOS ACADEMY: $356,500 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetYORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA: $199,158 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $166,665 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLEG UP FARM INC: $160,100 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetCORNERSTONE YOUTH HOME: $125,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetSUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC: $110,200 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetKEYSTONE KIDSPACE: $100,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CECIL COUNTY INC: $95,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK: $93,267 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetYORK HEALTH FOUNDATION: $93,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetYORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER: $90,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCREATIVE YORK: $72,500 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetPAPPUS HOUSE: $66,125 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetUPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetYMCA OF THE ROSES: $51,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTRAND-CAPITOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $42,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMAIN STREET YORK INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetYORK COUNTY FOOD BANK: $26,545 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYORK COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCharlestown Fire Company Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetWATER WITCH FIRE COMPANY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT SOURCE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHOICES HEALTHCARE: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYORK COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTH CENTRAL PA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYORK DAY NURSERY INC: $8,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPINK POWER: $7,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetYORK COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL: $6,200 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARC OF YORK COUNTY INC: $6,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSTEAM INTO HISTORY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSERVANTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYORK OPIOID COLLABORATIVE: $4,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $4,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHANOVER AREA YMCA: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEYSTONE HUMAN SERVICES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS IN THE HEART OF PA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENNIS FOR KIDS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNEW HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOLIVIA'S HOUSE - A GRIEF AND LOSS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $728 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY CONSERVANCY: $500 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.

  • Who funds LOGOS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEG UP FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE YOUTH HOME ↗
  • Who funds SUSAN P BYRNES HEALTH EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds KEYSTONE KIDSPACE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CECIL COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF YORK ↗
  • Who funds YORK HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YORK COUNTY HISTORY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVE YORK ↗
  • Who funds PAPPUS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds UPMC PINNACLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF THE ROSES ↗
  • Who funds STRAND-CAPITOL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LIFE ↗
  • Who funds MAIN STREET YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds YORK COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds YORK COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Charlestown Fire Company Inc ↗

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.

Powder Mill FoundationPA72.2× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Powder Mill Foundation · Airie Knipel Harry V and J William Warehime Foundation · York County Community Foundation · The Arthur J and Lee R Glatfelter Foundation · Kinsley Foundation · The Graham Foundation · United Way of York County · White Rose Leadership Institute · The W Dale Brougher Foundation · Anne & Philip Glatfelter III Family Foundation · Rice Family Foundation · Russell E & Eleanor B Horn Foundati

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 20%
  • Youth Empowerment Source Inc: 20% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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

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How do I get to The Stewart Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Stewart 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 89 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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