· Public charity
The Tony Stewart Foundation Inc
To engage in the promotion of health by providing grants to chronically ill children and/or their families, charitable organizations devoted to improving the well-being for various animals, and individuals injured in motorsports activities and/or their families and other organizations that provide similar services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $305,656 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $386,156 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $80,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $199k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RACING FOR RELIEF | $198,610 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIV FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF INDPLS | $30,000 |
| WHEELCHAIRS 4 KIDS INC | $10,046 |
| THE CHILDREN'S THERAPLAY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF HAMILTON COUNTY | $10,000 |
| BROWN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC | $7,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $166k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- RFRACING FOR RELIEF INC7× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +325% · 97% of their budget
- HSHumane Society for Hamilton County8× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +185%
- BCBrown County Humane Society Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- MMISCELLANEOUSone grant, 2020 · $30k
- ABAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +5%
- BCBARTHOLOMEW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue -23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Happy Paws Haven Co. is a foster based animal rescue agency that helps animals in need.
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.
Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…
To provide pet therapy to facilities. To build connections between volunteers and facilities seeking animal visitation
Divine canines therapy encourages smiles and brightens lives. to accomplish this, we recruit and train teams of dogs and their owners and organize and facilitate regular, frequent visits to residents of special care facilities.
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
Sharing love to help fight stress and lick loneliness, one friendly therapy visit at a time
Helping paws, inc. furthers people's independence and quality of life through the use of assistance dogs.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
To rescue and provide medical treatment for abused and abandoned animals; to rehabilitate rescued animals and find permanent placement in loving adoptive homes; to provide loving lifelong care at our sanctuary for those animals who are not…
Sweet Paws is a foster based rescue organization that is committed to using all possible resources to save and foster victimized and neglected animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hand in Paw Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camps for Spiffy-Kyds Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
49 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. 49 of the 55 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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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.
Open a dossier: The Brave Heart Foundation Inc · Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Helen Thoele Family Foundation · The Ackerman Foundation · Ayres Foundation Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust
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 Tony Stewart Foundation Inc 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.
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.
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