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Steuart Foundation Inc

Chevy Chase, MD · EIN 52-6018699. Reported 29 grants totalling $372,025 to 18 recipients across tax years 2024-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$5,000median grant
$372,025granted, 2024-2025
18recipients, as named on its returns
67%of grantees funded again the next year
$5,292assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Steuart Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $20,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $92,564. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
5 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
5 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
10 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
5 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Mission of SightMarion, OH$122,564222025
Bishop John T Walker School of BoysWashington, DC$70,000222025
Wilderness Leadership LearningWashington, DC$50,000222025
American Friends of JamaicaNew York, NY$40,681222025
Tudor PlaceWashington, MD$20,000112024
Annie Wright SchoolsTacoma, WA$16,500222025
St Albans SchoolWashington, DC$11,000322025
The David Wagga Hunt FoundationDavidsonville, MD$10,000222025
Washington and Lee UniversityLexington, VA$10,000222025
First Flight High SchoolKill Devil Hills, NC$5,980222025
Atlas Performing Arts CenterWashington, DC$5,000112025
Medstar National Rehab HospitalWashington, DC$5,000112024
Fk Love FoundationEstero, FL$2,500112025
Bethesda Chevy Chase Hight SchoolBethesda, MD$1,000112024
Hope ConnectionsBethesda, MD$700222025
All Hallows GuildWashington, DC$500112025
Evergreen Christian OutreachEvergreen, CO$500112024
Trekking for KidsWashington, DC$100112024

10 of 18 (56%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 67%, across 1 year-to-year transition. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

Plus 35 grants to individuals totalling $306,968 -- scholarships, hardship and emergency assistance. We deliberately do not publish the names of people who received them, even though the filings do.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 16 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Education
6 grants
International Affairs
3 grants
Recreation & Sports
2 grants
Diseases & Disorders
2 grants
Human Services
2 grants
Arts & Culture
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202416$172,030$5,000
202513$199,995$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

38% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. If your organization is based elsewhere, look in the recipient list for grants to your area before writing.

District of Columbia
$142K
Ohio
$123K
New York
$41K
Maryland
$32K
Washington
$16K
Virginia
$10K
North Carolina
$6K
Florida
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc5 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program4 shared recipientsThe Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in District of Columbia.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Steuart Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 5454 Wisconsin Ave Ste 700, Chevy Chase, MD, 20815. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 52-6018699 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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