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Lawrence Steinberg Foundation at a glance

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Lawrence Steinberg Foundation

To conduct and/or support activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the dallas jewish community foundation.

$877k
Granted FY2021
15
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

59% of Lawrence Steinberg Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Dallas Jewish Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 14 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Lawrence Steinberg Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $821k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

6
’17
10
’18
13
’19
12
’20
14
’21
13
’22
16
’23
14
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$1.1MPhilanthropy$1.0MEducation$548kHealth$546kHuman Services$430kYouth Development$402kReligion$323kArts & Culture$214kOther$0
02FY2021 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $820,985, the rows itemized in this filing. The $876,834 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,849 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $157k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$11,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION$500,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL$75,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS$64,500
THE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC$45,000
COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION$40,000
UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS$17,500
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$11,800
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS$11,500
AMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS$10,700
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION$10,025
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$10,000
TEMPLE EMANU-EL$8,960
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$6,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS$5,000
TEXAS HILLEL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF GREATER DALLAS: $9k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS: $6k → 14%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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 18 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
3

Total granted

$3.1M
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+62%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalCivil RightsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • SM
    SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2021 · $536k · revenue +115%
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL
    6× · 2018–2023 · $356k · revenue +33%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $345k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +62%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • TR
    TEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +58%
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
University of Judaism Foundation
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2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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3
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
4
Texas Jewish Security Initiative
Crime & Legal
5
JEWISHColorado

We convene, connect, invest, and protect jewish life in colorado, israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy
6
Jewish War Veterans of the Usa National Memorial Inc

The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…

Arts & Culture
7
The Jerusalem Connection
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8
Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

We steward $1.5 billion in charitable assets through donor-advised funds, endowments, and other giving vehicles. partnering with 1,400 individuals, families, and organizations, we build enduring legacies and multigenerational impact. in…

Philanthropy
9
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
10
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
11
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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12
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. 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

25 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. 25 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $676,300 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KERE…AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $271,400 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION …FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $77,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFE…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $61,100 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATI…+2 more: $35,700 · InternationalSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $536,000 · EducationSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUN…COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $345,200 · EducationCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOU…GREENHILL SCHOOL: $111,000 · EducationGREENHILL SCHOOLSouthern Methodist University: $65,000 · EducationSouthern Methodist Univer…+1 more: $5,250 · EducationJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS: $599,940 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GRE…DALLAS JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $292,709 · PhilanthropyDALLAS JEWISH COMMUNITY …UNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $132,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF METROPOLIT…TEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION: $157,500 · OtherTEXAS HILLEL …TEMPLE EMANU-EL: $140,138 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-…UT CHABAD HOUSE: $40,000 · OtherUT CHABAD HOU…UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $25,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $107,375 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATI…AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $52,600 · OtherAMERICAN JEWI…+6 more: $65,250 · Other+6 moreBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL: $355,696 · Youth DevelopmentDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $214,300 · Arts & CultureTHE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC: $133,816 · Arts & CultureJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS: $287,850 · Recreation & Sports
International$1,121,500Education$1,062,450Philanthropy$1,024,649Other$587,863Youth Development$355,696Arts & Culture$348,116Recreation & Sports$287,850

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 budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $676,300 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER DALLAS: $599,940 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $536,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL: $355,696 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $345,200 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetDALLAS JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $292,709 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF DALLAS: $287,850 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $271,400 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $214,300 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTEXAS HILLEL FOUNDATION: $157,500 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetTHE LEGACY SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC: $133,816 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC: $132,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGREENHILL SCHOOL: $111,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $107,375 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $77,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $61,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $52,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF DALLAS INC DBA JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $14,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH CONGRESS INC: $10,700 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDOWMENT FOR MIDDLE EAST TRUTH: $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTEXAS RANGERS BASEBALL FOUNDATION: $5,250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Dallas Jewish Communi…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Dallas Jewish Community FoundationTX15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dallas Jewish Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Lawrence Steinberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence Steinberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lawrence Steinberg Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lawrence Steinberg Foundation 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 30 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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