· Private foundation
The Stewart Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Health Care for the Homeless | $10,000 |
| Star of Hope | $10,000 |
| Cristo Rey Jesuit | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Texas Children Hospital | $10,000 |
| Doctors without Borders | $10,000 |
| The Beacon | $5,000 |
| Houston Food Bank | $5,000 |
| Tunnels to Towers | $5,000 |
| Bridges to Life | $5,000 |
| Yellowstone Academy | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Grace Covenant - NC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HFHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON6× · 2019–2024 · $60k · revenue +10%
The Houston Food Bank6× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +107%- BTBRIDGES TO LIFE8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- HMHouston Methodist Hospital3× · 2019–2021 · $20k
- TCTexas Children's Cancer Centerone grant, 2018 · $10k
- HHHOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $10k · revenue -29%
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.
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.
Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
Summerhouse Houston's supports adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), their familites, and our community through employment, volunterism, and partnerships to foster a culture of belonging, choice and respect.
Hospice care of terminally ill patients
This organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual…
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.
Through its affiliates, thr operates an integrated healthcare system with services and facilities throughout north central texas to improve the health of the people in the communities they serve.
Houston Hospice provides uncompromising, compassionate end-of-life care to patients and families in our community. Houston Hospice cares for patients from all races, ethnicities, religious beliefs, and payor classes, including those with…
We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.
Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS-HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO LIFE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHWAY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Holly Hall ↗
- Who funds The Summerhouse ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds VITA LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds TIRR Foundation ↗
- Who funds PRO-VISION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · John S Dunn Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Permanent Endowment Fund of Moody Methodist Church · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · The Medallion Foundation Inc · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The William Stamps Farish Fund
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
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