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Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt Foundation at a glance

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Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt Foundation

Supporting organization to the minneapolis jewish federation and other jewish community organizations

$623k
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$270k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Minneapolis Jewish Federation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $610k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

7
’17
8
’18
10
’19
7
’20
8
’21
8
’22
8
’23
0
’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.

Religion$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.6MHuman Services$406kHealth$360kArts & Culture$228kEducation$215kCommunity Improvement$110kPublic Benefit$39kOther$0
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $610,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $622,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,500 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 · FY2023

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $160k
  • $250k+1 grant · $270k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE ISRAEL FOUNDATION$270,000
MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION$160,000
MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$45,000
JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MIDWEST INC$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$25,000
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS$25,000
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN (MN) SECTION$25,000
SHOLOM FOUNDATION$15,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA & THE DAKOTAS$15,000
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 (FY17–23, $921k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH COMM CENTER OF THE GREATER ST PAUL: $212k → 14%JEWISH COMM CENTER OF THE GREATER ST PAUL: $62k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER ST PAUL INC: $55k → 14%JEWISH COMM CENTER OF THE GREATER ST PAUL: $40k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $20k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $16k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $16k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $35k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $25k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $25k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $25k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $151k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $137k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $12k → 11%JEWISH COMM RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MNDAKOTAS: $20k → 11%JEWISH COMM RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MNDAKOTAS: $10k → 11%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 10 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +105% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down. Read against FY2023, 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

10
1

Total granted

$3.0M
$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+105%
-15%

Still filing today

90%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesReligionEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • TI
    TEMPLE ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $810k · revenue +164% · 50% of their budget
  • SF
    SHOLOM FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $360k · revenue +204%
  • MJ
    MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER
    6× · 2017–2023 · $219k · revenue +147%

Funded once

  • MH
    MINNESOTA HILLEL
    one grant, 2019 · $103k · revenue -15%
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
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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3
Jewish Historical Society of Michigan

Jewish historical society of michigan shares and celebrates the experiences and contributions of the jewish people, communities and institutions of michigan.

—
4
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
5
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
6
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
7
The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc
Religion
8
Flint Jewish Federation

To further the welfare of the jewish community

Philanthropy
9
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
10
Jewish Community Relations Council

The jewish community relations council (jcrc) works within the jewish and broader communities in st. louis to enhance cooperation with other religious, racial, ethnic and civic groups; foster a just, democratic and pluralistic society; and…

Community Improvement
11
Jewish Childrens Museum

To further jewish historical education among youths

Arts & Culture
12
Jewish Community Action

Jewish community action's mission is to organize minnesota jews on key issues impacting our families and neighbors, including religious freedom, affordable housing and public safety.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Minnesota Jewish Community Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $1,634,662 · PhilanthropyMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATIONTEMPLE ISRAEL: $430,000 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAELMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $219,000 · OtherMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNIT…JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MIDWEST: $203,125 · OtherJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY…MINNESOTA HILLEL: $102,500 · OtherMINNESOTA HILLELJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS: $99,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATION…MINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION: $399,000 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMU…SHOLOM FOUNDATION: $359,800 · Human ServicesSHOLOM FOUNDATIONJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $162,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHIL…TEMPLE ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $810,000 · ReligionTEMPLE ISRAEL FOUND…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MINNESOTA (MN) SECTION: $135,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$1,634,662Other$1,053,625Human Services$920,800Religion$810,000Education$150,000Community Improvement$135,000

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 budgetMINNEAPOLIS JEWISH FEDERATION: $1,634,662 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTEMPLE ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $810,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION: $399,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetSHOLOM FOUNDATION: $359,800 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetMINNESOTA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $219,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF THE UPPER MIDWEST: $203,125 over 7y, 24% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF MINNEAPOLIS: $162,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN MINNESOTA (MN) SECTION: $135,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetMINNESOTA HILLEL: $102,500 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF MINNESOTA AND THE DAKOTAS: $99,000 over 5y, 2.4% 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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Rum FundBeryl and Florence Mi…Lynne & Andrew Redlea…Mike & Linda Fiterman…Baird Foundation IncThe Richard & Rossy S…Alex G & Mollie Tanke…Marshall & Elaine Sie…Robert and Susan Diam…Weiser Family Foundat…
The Minneapolis FoundationMN22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Rum Fund · Beryl and Florence Miller Family Foundation · Lynne & Andrew Redleaf Foundation · Mike & Linda Fiterman Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Richard & Rossy Shaller Family Foundation · Alex G & Mollie Tankenoff Family Foundation · Marshall & Elaine Siegel Foundation · Robert and Susan Diamond Foundation · Weiser Family 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 Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Oren and Sharron Steinfeldt 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 12 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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