· Private foundation
Gregg W & Denise E Steinhafel Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $341k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUNG LIFE | $40,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $35,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $25,000 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS | $20,000 |
| MINNESOTA BUSINESS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UPPER MIDWEST LAW CENTER | $15,000 |
| CENTER OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT | $15,000 |
| LEGACY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $11,000 |
| INTERFAITH OUTREACH | $10,000 |
| LIGHT CHURCH | $10,000 |
| MISES INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| RILEY GAINES CO LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $10,000 |
| CRIME PREVENTION FUND | $10,000 |
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, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
39 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES7× · 2019–2025 · $185k · revenue +80%
- FTFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY5× · 2019–2023 · $98k · revenue +9%
- CUCARROLL UNIVERSITY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $76k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- FBFREE BIKES FOR KIDSone grant, 2020 · $10k
- STST THERESE C SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $10k
- ACAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -76%
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.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
We empower individuals and families to confidently navigate aging so that it is a purposeful journey filled with dignity and support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interfaith Outreach and Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 60 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.
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Wheaton College ↗
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds CARROLL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Center of the American Experiment ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds DUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF MINNEAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds UPPER MIDWEST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds CRIME PREVENTION FUND ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds UNITED THROUGH READING ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERY MEAL ↗
- Who funds ONE WORLD SURGERY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Long Lake Volunteer Firemen's Relief Association ↗
- Who funds THE LANGDON INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds MINNETONKA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MISSING GRACE FOUNDATION ↗
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 Minneapolis Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · H William Lurton Foundation · Caridad Corporation · The Head Family Foundation · The K Foundation · American Gift Fund · United Way Worldwide · National Philanthropic 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 Gregg W & Denise E Steinhafel Family Foundation 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.