Illinois · Private foundation
Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation
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.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $317k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $2.3M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $2.6M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $1.5M | 45% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $1.6M | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $3,100,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $2,050,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $2,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago International Film Festival Inc Cinema-Chicago | $1,025,000 | 4 | 11% |
| The Joffrey Ballet | $400,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Posse Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $207,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Newberry Library | $200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Luminarts Cultural Foundation the Union League Club of Chicago | $200,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Grant Park Orchestral Association | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $3,100,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $2,050,000 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $2,000,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chicago International Film Festival Inc Cinema-Chicago | $1,025,000 | 4 | 11% |
| The Joffrey Ballet | $400,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Posse Foundation Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $207,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Newberry Library | $200,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Luminarts Cultural Foundation the Union League Club of Chicago | $200,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Grant Park Orchestral Association | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chicago Opera Theater | $100,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Planned Parenthood of Illinois | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Opera Center | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($150k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation
- How much does Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation give?
- Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $2,344,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (73%), Education (25%), Health (1%).
- Who are Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Lyric Opera of Chicago ($3.1M), The Art Institute of Chicago ($2.0M), University of Wisconsin Foundation ($2.0M).
- Does Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation based?
- Robert and Penelope Steiner Family Foundation is based in IL.
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