How much does The Tony Stewart Foundation Inc give?

The Tony Stewart Foundation Inc reported 7 itemized grants totaling $305,656, out of $386,156 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Tony Stewart Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (35%), Health (28%), Animals (24%).

Who are The Tony Stewart Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Racing for Relief Inc ($1.0M), Humane Society for Hamilton County ($155k), Brown County Humane Society Inc ($86k).

Does The Tony Stewart Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Tony Stewart Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Brave Heart Foundation Inc, Hamilton County Community Foundation Inc, Lilly Endowment Inc.

Where is The Tony Stewart Foundation Inc based?

The Tony Stewart Foundation Inc is based in IN.

The Tony Stewart Foundation Inc

The Tony Stewart Foundation Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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.

$386k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$199k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Safety & Disaster$1.0MHealth$816kAnimals$703kHuman Services$106kArts & Culture$95kEducation$90kRecreation & Sports$26kYouth Development$8kOther$0

02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 7 grants below total $305,656, the rows itemized in this filing. The $386,156 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $80,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $7k
$10k–50k5 grants · $100k
$50k–250k1 grant · $199k

$10,046

Median grant

States reached

$3.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.7M · 38 repeat orgs$188k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.7M

$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%

+38%

Still filing today

89%

76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationOther

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

RF
RACING FOR RELIEF INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +426% · 97% of their budget
HS
Humane Society for Hamilton County
8× · 2017–2024 · $155k · revenue +185%
BC
Brown County Humane Society Inc
7× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +109%

Funded once

M
MISCELLANEOUS
one grant, 2020 · $30k
AB
AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +32%
BC
BARTHOLOMEW COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
one grant, 2021 · $19k · revenue -23%

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.

Happy Paws Haven Co

Happy Paws Haven Co. is a foster based animal rescue agency that helps animals in need.

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Humane Animal Partners

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…

Animals

Dogs Playing for Life Inc

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.

Animals

Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation

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…

Animals

Creature Comfort Pet Therapy

To provide pet therapy to facilities. To build connections between volunteers and facilities seeking animal visitation

Animals

Divine Canines

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.

Animals

Pet Orphans of Southern California

In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.

Animals

Pets On Wheels Inc

Sharing love to help fight stress and lick loneliness, one friendly therapy visit at a time

Animals

Helping Paws Inc

Helping paws, inc. furthers people's independence and quality of life through the use of assistance dogs.

Human Services

Connecticut Humane Society

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.

Animals

Hooves & Paws Animal Rescue Inc

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…

Animals

Sweet Paws Rescue Inc

Sweet Paws is a foster based rescue organization that is committed to using all possible resources to save and foster victimized and neglected animals.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hand in Paw Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 55 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/49

Grantees still filing

37/49

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Public Safety & Disaster$1,015,952Animals$520,000Health$405,516Other$458,643Human Services$219,841Recreation & Sports$135,036Education$133,660

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.

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.

The Brave Heart Foundation IncIN17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get 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 · 0–5%

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.

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