· Private foundation
Joseph and Jamie Steuer Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITERACY NETWORK | $50,000 |
| THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| SOLID GROUND | $30,000 |
| ARC COMMUNITY SERVICES | $25,000 |
| SUNSHINE PLACE | $25,000 |
| SHELTER FROM THE STORM MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| EXPLORE CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF SUN PRAIRIE | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES - 5 DOOR RECOVERY | $1,000 |
| YMCA OF THE CHIPPEWA VALLEY | $1,000 |
| WOMENS MEDICAL FUND INC | $1,000 |
| RALLY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCE FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN | $1,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED INC | $1,000 |
| FAITH CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CENTER | $1,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $221k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC3× · 2022–2024 · $101k · revenue +90%- LNLITERACY NETWORK INC2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +47%
- SPSUNSHINE PLACE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $77k · revenue +297%
Funded once
- PPOWERSone grant, 2023 · $10k
- CCCOMFORT CASES INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -9%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -27%
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.
Transforming lives through safety, healing and empowerment.
Community care health plan's mission is to develop and demonstrate innovative, flexible, community-based approaches to care for at-risk adults, in order to optimize their quality of life and optimize the allocation of community resources.
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
Map is a local, statewide, and national resource for communities looking to develop and implement proven, innovative, community-centered strategies that address gender-based violence. using map's "we are all connected" (waac) prevention…
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…
The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.
Compass family services helps homeless families and those at imminent risk to achieve housing stability, economic self-sufficiency, and well-being.
Educate, advocate, and empower to end violence.
Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
The mission of Childs Place is to listen to children in a safe developmentally sensitive and legally sound manner; to unite professionals in a coordinated response to child abuse; to guide children and families toward healing through…
To provide safety, shelter and support to empower all impacted by domestic abuse, sexual violence, child abuse & trafficking.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Domestic Abuse Intervention Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 32 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 THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSHINE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER FROM THE STORM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ARC COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds RALLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Solid Ground ↗
- Who funds EXPLORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SUN PRAIRIE INC ↗
- Who funds COMFORT CASES INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MEDICAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CHIPPEWA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds RONDO CENTER OF DIVERSE EXPRESSION ↗
- Who funds SAFESPACE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COLORADO PERINATAL CARE QUALITY COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JEWISHColorado ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY OAKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK 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 Roots and Wings Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · The Evjue Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Joseph and Jamie Steuer 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.
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Comfort Cases Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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