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Keith and Polly Steiner 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.

$105k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Housing & Shelter$112kFood & Nutrition$111kArts & Culture$73kHuman Services$71kHealth$45kReligion$35kPhilanthropy$27kPublic Safety & Disaster$24kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES$18,000
THE PANTRY$14,000
LA JOLLA ROTARY FOUNDATION$6,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH$4,100
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$4,000
HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS$4,000
HAWAII FOODBANK$4,000
ANERA$3,350
HOOKUAAINA$3,300
RIVER OF LIFE MISSION$3,000
CHILD & FAMILY SERVICE$3,000
HAWAIIAN ISLAND MINISTRIES$3,000
HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOCIAL SERVICE LEAGUE OF LA JOLLA: $5k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $3k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $3k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $3k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $2k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%PAEPAE O HE'EIA: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
NY
CA
TN
DC
HI
MS
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$501k · 31 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
20

Total granted

$501k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+28%

Still filing today

74%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

  • IT
    IHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $88k · revenue +41%
  • HF
    HAWAII FOODBANK INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $37k · revenue +98%
  • BM
    BISHOP MUSEUM
    4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • PO
    PAEPAE O HE'EIA
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +16%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +21%
  • SS
    Social Service League of La Jollagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +48%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Ho'ola Lahui Hawaii

To improve the health and well-being of our community.

Human Services
2
Kapi'olani Medical Specialists

Kapi'olani medical specialists (dba hawai'i pacific health medical group) is a multispecialty provider group dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region working in partnership with…

Health
3
Hawaii Pacific University

Hawaii pacific university is an international learning community set in the rich cultural context of hawaii. students from around the world join us for an american education built on a liberal arts foundation. our innovative undergraduate…

Education
4
The People's Fund

Hawai`i people`s fund supports, funds, and amplifies the work of hawai`i- based grassroots organizations challenging systems of oppression.

Human Services
5
Hawaii LOCAL2030 Hub

We are a public-private partnership that connects, convenes and catalyzes action across social, environmental and economic sectors to achieve hawaiis 2030 sustainability goals and the global sustainable development goals (sdgs).

Community Improvement
6
Kuakini Foundation

The mission of kuakini foundation is to improve the health status of the community by: providing comprehensive health care services and programs at reasonable cost; continuously improving the quality of health care services and programs;…

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7
Papahana Kuaola

Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…

Environment
8
Kukio Hoomana Fund

The kuki'o ho'omana fund seeks to uplift and enrich our hawai'i island community through intentional investments in curated local organizations focusing on youth empowerment, affordable housing, environmental preservation, cultural…

Philanthropy
9
Kaua'i Medical Clinic

Kaua'i medical clinic, an affliate of hawai'i pacific health, is a multi-specialty clinic dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region in partnership with kapi'olani medical center…

Health
10
Kapi'olani Health Foundation

The mission of kapi'olani health foundation is to create a healthier hawai'i.

Health
11
Aloha Harvest

To rescue quality food to nourish and strengthen our community.

Food & Nutrition
12
Hui Aloha Kiholo

Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Meals On Wheels Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Understanding. 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 50 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr14%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr17%13%20–35yr13%47%35–55yr14%26%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
13%
4,424/33,154

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.

04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
34/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE PANTRY — $33,500 · OtherTHE PANTRYTHE SALVATION ARMY — $28,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF HONOLULU — $23,500 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF HONOLULUPLANNED PARENTHOOD — $21,950 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO — $18,000 · OtherHAWAII PUBLIC RADIOCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE — $16,000 · OtherCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICELA JOLLA ROTARY FOUNDATION — $13,000 · OtherSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $12,000 · Other+28 more — $118,400 · Other+28 moreIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $87,500 · Housing & ShelterIHS THE INSTITUTE FO…HONOLULU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHONOLULU HABITAT FOR…HomeAid Hawaii — $8,000 · Housing & ShelterHomeAid HawaiiHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $37,100 · Food & NutritionHAWAII FOOD…HAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionHAWAII MEAL…Center for Regenerative Agriculture — $5,000 · Food & NutritionCenter for …BISHOP MUSEUM — $22,000 · Arts & CultureBISHOP MU…HONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH — $20,500 · Arts & CultureHONOLULU …HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII — $6,000 · Arts & CultureHAWAII PU…HOOKUAAINA — $3,300 · Arts & CultureHOOKUAAIN…+1 more — $1,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $18,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $10,450 · Human ServicesPAEPAE O HE'EIA — $10,000 · Human ServicesSocial Service League of La Jolla — $5,000 · Human ServicesHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $26,000 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAY — $1,100 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $13,350 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $6,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $6,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $1,750 · International
Other$284,350Housing & Shelter$110,500Food & Nutrition$62,100Arts & Culture$52,800Human Services$43,450Philanthropy$27,100International$27,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIHS THE INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC — $87,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC — $37,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBISHOP MUSEUM — $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHONOLULU THEATRE FOR YOUTH — $20,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHAWAII MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $20,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC RADIO — $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD AND FAMILY SERVICE — $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHONOLULU HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $13,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA JOLLA ROTARY FOUNDATION — $13,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871) — $10,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAEPAE O HE'EIA — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKUPU — $8,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHomeAid Hawaii — $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC — $7,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS HAWAII INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION DBA PBS HAWAII — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWAIKIKI HEALTH — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSocial Service League of La Jolla — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER LA JOLLA MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetPROJECT UNDERSTANDING — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Regenerative Agriculture — $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOOKUAAINA — $3,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $3,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANEURYSM FOUNDATION — $3,100 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS MINISTRIES INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPALAMA SETTLEMENT — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUSTAINABLE COASTLINES HAWAI'I — $2,850 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMONTESSORI COMMUNITY SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE — $1,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIO FOUNDATION — $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HAWAII INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY — $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSURFRIDER SPIRIT SESSIONS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS HAWAII INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

J Watumull FundBank of Hawaii Charit…The Harry and Jeanett…Aloha United Way IncAtherton Family Found…First Insurance Compa…Tradewind Group Found…Central Pacific Bank …Kosasa FoundationFirst Hawaiian Bank F…Cooke Foundation Limi…Chung Kun Ai Foundati…
J Watumull FundHI44.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J Watumull Fund · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Aloha United Way Inc · Atherton Family Foundation · First Insurance Company of Hawaii Charitable Foundation · Tradewind Group Foundation · Central Pacific Bank Foundation · Kosasa Foundation · First Hawaiian Bank Foundation · Cooke Foundation Limited · Chung Kun Ai Foundation

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 Keith and Polly Steiner 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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