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Commitment To Our Communities

At Stewart, we believe in making a meaningful impact beyond business. Our commitment to social responsibility is reflected in how we support our employees, partners, customers, vendors, and the communities where we live and work. Through active engagement, charitable giving, and employee-driven initiatives, we strive to create a better future for all. We focus our commitment in three key areas:

Empowering employees to support local organizations and causes they care about through employee-nominated charity donations and paid time off to volunteer
Partnering with charitable organizations through Stewart Title Foundation grants and hands-on support
Responding to community needs with disaster relief and targeted gifts, including our board of directors charitable matching gift program and Stewart Scholarships

2026 Highlights

Stewart Title Foundation 2025 Annual Giving Overview

Over the past five years, Stewart’s charitable giving has more than doubled, growing from $513,750 in 2021 to just over $1.2M in 2025. This growth reflects not only increased financial investment, but a fundamental shift toward an employee-led, participation-driven model of impact.

What began as a traditional corporate giving program has evolved into a nationally scaled platform for employee voice, volunteerism, and community leadership—engaging employees and supporting organizations in all 50 states and embedding service into the fabric of how Stewart shows up for its communities.

Stewart’s giving increased every single year over the five-year period, with annual growth ranging from ~19% to ~26%. Importantly, this growth was not driven by a single outsized gift, but by the scaling of employee-powered programs, particularly Community Service Awards, scholarships, and volunteer engagement.

While employee-driven programs scaled rapidly, Stewart also maintained and deepened long-term enterprise partnerships:

Multi-year investments in organizations like Houston Food Bank, Rebuilding Together, Feeding America, ALTA Good Deeds, and MBA Opens Doors
Expansion from localized impact to multi-city, disaster response, and national footprint initiatives
Integration of hands-on volunteerism, resulting in over 1,700 cumulative volunteer hours with Rebuilding Together alone since partnership inception

This balance ensured growth did not come at the expense of focus or effectiveness.

Stewart’s Global Volunteer Time Off (VTO) program launched in 2024 and grew more than 30% year over year:

15,737 volunteer hours in 2024
20,780 volunteer hours in 2025
1,792 employees participating in 2025 alone

At Stewart, volunteerism is fully integrated into our impact model with over 36,000 VTO hours being taken in just two years.

Revitalizing Communities with Rebuilding Together

Since 2023, over 500 Stewart volunteers have dedicated 2,160 hours to revitalizing communities across the U.S. through Rebuilding Together, making essential home repairs for those in need. This work has resulted in repairing 34 homes or projects in 28 total cities (16 states). We have also funded Hurricane Ian relief efforts in SW Florida, wildfire relief efforts in Los Angeles, and flood relief efforts in the Texas Hill Country.

To date in 2026, 88 volunteers (495 hours) gave time to help repair 8 homes across 7 states.

Three smiling Stewart volunteers in bright shirts pose during a neighborhood cleanup, with gloves and litter grabbers near a local shop and parked cars.

A man measures a wooden board beside a compound miter saw while another watches outdoors, showing focused teamwork at a community building project.

A smiling volunteer group poses outside a garage, wearing colorful “Be the Good” shirts in bright sunlight, conveying teamwork and community spirit.

Volunteers clear weeds and debris from a narrow alley beside a concrete wall, with an orange bucket and tools nearby; a sunny, community-minded cleanup scene.

Three volunteers in gloves clear dry plants beside a chain-link fence, using garden tools under an overcast sky; focused teamwork conveys community care.

Two volunteers clear a cluttered backyard, carrying a yellow bucket and garden tools beside a rusted grill and debris-filled wheelbarrow, with a purposeful mood.

Two smiling volunteers in work gloves stand behind a blue ladder between houses, ready for a community cleanup or repair project. Their friendly expressions convey teamwork.

Volunteers build a wooden accessibility ramp beside a house, assembling the railings with tools and lumber on a sunny day; the scene feels collaborative and purposeful.

Stewart volunteers assemble a wooden structure in a sunny backyard, conveying teamwork, community spirit, and service.

Stewart volunteers in pink shirts and dark clothing collect litter and move a large bin beside a portable toilet and parked trucks on a sunny street.

A diverse volunteer group poses before a Rebuilding Together truck, whose banner reads “Repair, Revitalize, Rebuild,” on a sunny day.

A diverse volunteer team smiles on a wet outdoor court, wearing matching “Be the Good” shirts; their upbeat pose conveys community spirit and kindness.

Nine volunteers pose outdoors behind a “Rebuilding Together” sign, smiling in a sunny yard by a brick building; the mood is friendly and community-minded.

Stewart volunteers gather beside a weathered green shed, repainting its exterior; a ladder and hose frame the community cleanup scene.

Two Stewart volunteers clean a brick wall: one stands on an elevated roof while another guides a long pole from below, amid ladders under a cloudy sky.

A cheerful group of Stewart community volunteers in blue shirts gathers outside a building marked 5773, surrounding a seated man in a red shirt.

A bright green Rebuilding Together Houston sign on a sidewalk names the Stewart Title Crew and House #15,101, conveying community repair work.

Volunteers in bright pink shirts clear a sunlit backyard, sorting broken boards and debris around a wheelbarrow; teamwork gives the scene a purposeful tone.

Tackling Food Insecurity Across the U.S. with Feeding America

Through our donations in 2025, Stewart provided 290,000 meals to food insecure people across the U.S. via Feeding America partners.

At the Houston Food Bank, Stewart’s donations provided over 73,000 meals to children in need.

Two smiling women in orange vests hold bags of apples in a warehouse. Other workers and boxes of produce are visible in the background. The mood is cheerful.

A group of five people wearing colorful T-shirts and smiling at the camera while volunteering at Houston Food Bank.

Four smiling volunteers wearing red aprons pose in a kitchen. They appear happy and engaged, creating a warm, friendly atmosphere.

Other notable charity partners

Through our donation to the MBA Opens Doors Foundation,15 families were provided with rental or mortgage assistance.

Our donation to ALTA® Good Deeds funded grants of $6,000 each to four charities.

Community Service Awards Program

Created in 2021, the Community Service Awards program allows any employee to nominate a local charity, foundation and/or other non-profit organization to receive a $500 donation from the Stewart Title Foundation in the name of the nominating employee.

The program has become the cornerstone of Stewart’s giving strategy, growing from:

$243,000 in 2021 → $613,000 in 2026
472 unique organizations → 1,144 unique organizations supported in 2026
42 states → all 50 states + DC

In 2026, Community Service Awards alone represented 41% of total giving, underscoring Stewart’s commitment to trusting employees to lead impact in their own communities. In total, 1,226 awards were given on behalf of employees.

Stewart Scholarship Program

Scholarships & Future Investment

Since 1994, we have supported continuing education for high school seniors and undergraduate students who are children of Stewart employees and have excelled academically. The Stewart Scholarship Program lets us recognize and reward these students with annual scholarships.

In the last six years, Stewart has more than tripled the dollars and number of recipients in the scholarship program.

$79,000 (2021) → $260,000 (2026)
37 students → 130 students

In 2026, we increased our annual scholarship pool from $238,000 to $260,000 and raised the number of scholarships from 119 to 130.

Culture of Caring