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Joseph S & Diane H Steinberg 1992 Charitable Trust at a glance

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Joseph S & Diane H Steinberg 1992 Charitable Trust

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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$681k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$7.8MEnvironment$4.1MArts & Culture$3.0MCommunity Improvement$1.8MInternational$1.0MHuman Services$826kScience & Tech$805kYouth Development$709kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $435k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.9M
$25,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN$680,784
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$590,000
BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC$413,368
CITY CENTER 55TH STREET$263,890
PEF ISRAEL EMDOWMENT FUNDS$200,000
TELLURIDE FILM FESTIVAL$135,400
INT'L RESCUE COMMITTEE$100,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$100,000
ST ANNS WAREHOUSE$98,126
VON KING PARK CONSERVANCY$55,000
CUREBOUND$51,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
RED HOOK INITIATIVE$50,000
PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HELPUSADOPTORG: $125k → 17%HELPUSADOPTORG: $50k → 17%HELPUSADOPTORG: $50k → 17%GALLOP NYC: $5k → 20%FAMILY LEGAL CARE: $10k → 17%GALLOP NYC: $3k → 20%FAMILY LEGAL CARE: $10k → 17%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $110k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $100k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $100k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $100k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $70k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $50k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $50k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $25k → 20%RED HOOK INITIATIVE: $25k → 20%METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY: $10k → 17%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 17%WINE ON WHEELS: $10k → 17%COOKE SCHOOL & INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $5k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $4k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $4k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $4k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $2k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $2k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $2k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $2k → 17%PROJECT EZRA: $2k → 17%HEIGHTS AND HILLS: $25k → 20%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $10k → 20%GRAHAM WINDHAM: $10k → 20%HEIGHTS AND HILLS: $10k → 20%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES: $10k → 20%HEIGHTS AND HILLS: $5k → 20%HEIGHTS AND HILLS: $1k → 20%HEIGHTS AND HILLS: $1k → 20%LEGAL INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES TODAY: $1k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
IA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 76 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

76 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
89

Total granted

$21M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+18%

Still filing today

63%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NY
    New York University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +76%
  • BB
    BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +53%
  • CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $1.4M · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
  • TM
    TERRA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION
    one grant, 2022 · $185k · revenue -85% · 87% of their budget
  • TV
    THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -34%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
5
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
6
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
7
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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10
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
11
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
12
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Futures Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ck-12 Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 184 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
104/108
Grantees still filing
79/108
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY CENTER 55TH STREET: $1,758,898 · OtherCITY CENTER 55TH STREETBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $1,410,629 · OtherBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INCIndividual grant recipient: $431,346 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $331,800 · OtherST ANN CENTER WAREHOUSE: $331,640 · Other+121 more: $5,425,578 · Other+121 moreNew York University: $5,655,292 · EducationNew York UniversityPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $587,700 · EducationPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLHANNAH SENESH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL: $275,000 · Education+13 more: $744,046 · Education+13 moreBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $1,980,123 · EnvironmentBROOKLYN BOTANI…CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,400,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION IN…+1 more: $100 · EnvironmentRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $630,000 · Human ServicesHELPUSADOPTORG INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $150,000 · Human ServicesROOM AT THE INN INC: $68,000 · Human ServicesHEIGHTS & HILLS INC: $42,000 · Human Services+8 more: $129,200 · Human ServicesThe National Film Preserve Ltd: $328,150 · Arts & CultureST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $320,079 · Arts & CultureWNET: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $178,802 · Arts & CultureHUBBS-SEA WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $775,000 · AnimalsWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $74,050 · Animals+1 more: $1,800 · AnimalsPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $400,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $166,000 · PhilanthropyHealing Emergency Aid Response Team 911: $135,000 · PhilanthropyBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $101,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $35,000 · Philanthropy
Other$9,689,891Education$7,262,038Environment$3,380,223Human Services$1,244,200Arts & Culture$867,031Animals$850,850Philanthropy$837,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York University: $5,655,292 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $1,980,123 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetBROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC: $1,410,629 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,400,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHUBBS-SEA WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $775,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetRED HOOK INITIATIVE: $630,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $587,700 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $400,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Film Preserve Ltd: $328,150 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC: $320,079 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHANNAH SENESH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL: $275,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHELPUSADOPTORG INC: $225,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetPROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC: $205,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWheaton College: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIN YOUR FACE NEW YORK 2 INC: $200,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetOceanic Society Expeditions: $192,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetTERRA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION: $185,004 over 1y, 87% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $185,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $166,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $155,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHealing Emergency Aid Response Team 911: $135,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetCUREBOUND: $133,800 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $101,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $74,050 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetROOM AT THE INN INC: $68,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCE12 FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKINGS COUNTY TENNIS LEAGUE: $55,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetCALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC: $51,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetKATAHDIN FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Ciesla Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetJefferies Family Scholarship: $50,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetZAKA NORTH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTELLURIDE COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS AND HUMAN DBA TELLURIDE ARTS: $50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBEAM CENTER INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHEIGHTS & HILLS INC: $42,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY LEGAL CARE INC: $41,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWNET: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUBBS-SEA WORLD RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds RED HOOK INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds The National Film Preserve Ltd ↗
  • Who funds ST ANN'S WAREHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds HANNAH SENESH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HELPUSADOPTORG INC ↗
  • Who funds PROSPECT PARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Wheaton College ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds IN YOUR FACE NEW YORK 2 INC ↗
  • Who funds Oceanic Society Expeditions ↗
  • Who funds TERRA MARINE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds Healing Emergency Aid Response Team 911 ↗
  • Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
  • Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundBrooklyn Community Fo…The Hyde and Watson F…The New York Communit…Lily Auchincloss Foun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Strong Foundation of …Pinkerton FoundationThe Ford FoundationWalentas Foundation L…Charina Foundation In…The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc
Jewish Communal FundNY32.2× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Brooklyn Community Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Strong Foundation of New York · Pinkerton Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Walentas Foundation Ltd · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joseph S & Diane H Steinberg 1992 Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph S & Diane H Steinberg 1992 Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
  • Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Joseph S & Diane H Steinberg 1992 Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 184 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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