Stewart Family Foundation Incorporated
This organization is a private foundation dedicated to supporting various charitable causes, primarily focused on alleviating poverty and enhancing community well-being. Its mission emphasizes providing food, shelter, and affordable housing for the homeless and low-income individuals, as well as offering educational resources and support for women and families in need. The foundation actively funds initiatives that provide dental services, child education and therapy, and cancer support, reflecting a commitment to health and empowerment. It predominantly serves communities in Colorado, with significant contributions to local libraries and historical preservation efforts.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
A Colorado-based nonprofit (especially Longmont-area) working in affordable housing, food/hunger relief, shelter services, child education/therapy, libraries, museum/cultural capital projects, or established higher-education partnerships with capacity to manage large grants.
Good Fit
- • Located in Longmont or elsewhere in Colorado with demonstrated local impact
- • Projects aligning with museums, child education/therapy, hunger relief, shelters, affordable housing, libraries, or university partnerships
- • Organizational capacity to absorb and manage multi-hundred-thousand or multi-million-dollar awards
- • Introductions or endorsements from existing grantees, local civic leaders, or the foundation’s known partners
- • Track record of multi-year service or capital project experience
Geography
Giving is overwhelmingly state-focused: about 98% of grant dollars went to Colorado recipients in the latest year, with only a single small out-of-state grant observed.
Recipient Variety
The latest year funded 18 distinct recipients across museums, education, housing, hunger relief, libraries and health-related supports, and the foundation added five new grantees; however dollar awards are concentrated (top five received about 85%).
New Applicants
Direct evidence shows the foundation operates by preselection/invitation rather than a public application process, so although new grantees do appear in the portfolio, unfamiliar applicants without introductions are unlikely to gain access through an open submission route.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
