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Robert E and Leila Stegner Family Foundation at a glance

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Robert E and Leila Stegner 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.

$601k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$368kHuman Services$221kEducation$147kCrime & Legal$147kPhilanthropy$147kHealth$74kMembership Benefit$74kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $391k
$30,049
Median grant
3
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$120,195
THE SALVATION ARMY$90,146
WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$60,097
VICTIMS INTERVENTION PROGRAM$60,097
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER$60,097
ALERT HOOK & LADDER COMPANY #2$30,049
PROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3$30,049
HOSE CO #1$30,049
AMERICAN RED CROSS$30,049
WAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC$30,049
BETHANY CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$30,049
TEXAS #4 FIRE COMPANY$30,049
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 (FY23–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $19k → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 11 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
0

Total granted

$1.3M
$0

Still filing today

73%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Public Safety & DisasterHealthEducationHuman 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

  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $147k · revenue +19%
  • AH
    Alert Hook & Ladder Company No 2
    3× · 2023–2025 · $74k · revenue +60%
  • WM
    WAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $74k · revenue +178%

Funded once

    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
    Summit Station Fire Company

    Provide trained personnel and equipment to protect life and property in wayne township and the surrounding area against the ravages of fire

    Public Safety & Disaster
    2
    Uniondale Volunteer Fire Company

    Fire and ems protection

    Public Safety & Disaster
    3
    West Amwell Fire Company
    Public Safety & Disaster
    4
    Taylor Township Volunteer Fire Department
    —
    5
    Burnsville Volunteer Fire Department

    Mission for burnsville vfd burnsville wv the burnsville vfd provides fire protection fire safety and emergency rescue services to the citizens in its designated area. bvfd serves in a safe efficient manner serving all stakeholders.

    Public Safety & Disaster
    6
    Huron Volunteer Fire Department

    Volunteer Fire Department for Huron and surrounding areas.

    —
    7
    Waring Volunteer Fire Department

    Fire Protection

    Public Safety & Disaster
    8
    Middle Taylor Township Vol Fire Co

    Fire and ems protection - preservation of lives and property during an emergency

    Public Safety & Disaster
    9
    Winchester Volunteer Fire Department

    to prevent the loss of life and to control or reduce the loss of property by applying all of our knowledge and resources.

    Public Safety & Disaster
    10
    Pittsburg Volunteer Fire Department

    Provide fire protection for over 100 members

    —
    11
    Hooverson Heights Vfd Inc

    Fire fighting and prevention

    —
    12
    Stony Brook Volunteer Fire Department

    Provide fire protection and emergency medical services to the citizens of the Stony Brook fire district 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

    Public Safety & Disaster
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Protection Engine Company No 3; the most unlike its peers is Alert Hook & Ladder Company No 2. 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

    9 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. 9 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)
    9/9
    Grantees still filing
    5/9
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    Individual grant recipient: $294,326 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE SALVATION ARMY: $220,745 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYBETHANY CEMETERY ASSOCIATION: $73,582 · OtherBETHANY CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONPROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3: $73,582 · OtherPROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3Alert Hook & Ladder Company No 2: $73,582 · Public Safety & DisasterAlert Hook & Ladd…Texas #4 Fire Company: $73,582 · Public Safety & DisasterTexas #4 Fire Com…Hose Co No 1: $73,582 · Public Safety & DisasterHose Co No 1VICTIMS INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $147,163 · HealthVICTIMS INTERVEN…WAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $73,582 · HealthWAYNE MEMORIAL H…WAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $147,163 · PhilanthropyWAYNE COUNT…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $147,163 · EducationUNIVERSITY …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $73,582 · Human Services
    Other$662,235Public Safety & Disaster$220,746Health$220,745Philanthropy$147,163Education$147,163Human Services$73,582

    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 budgetWAYNE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $147,163 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetVICTIMS INTERVENTION PROGRAM: $147,163 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $147,163 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlert Hook & Ladder Company No 2: $73,582 over 3y, 18% of budgetWAYNE MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $73,582 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $73,582 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTexas #4 Fire Company: $73,582 over 3y, 11% of budgetHose Co No 1: $73,582 over 3y, 20% of budgetPROTECTION ENGINE COMPANY NO 3: $73,582 over 3y, 28% 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.

    John H Stegner and He…William E Chatlos Fou…The Honesdale Nationa…
    John H Stegner and Helen a Stegner CharitablePA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: John H Stegner and Helen a Stegner Charitable · William E Chatlos Foundation · The Honesdale National Bank 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 Robert E and Leila Stegner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert E and Leila Stegner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
      0get no government money at all
      6report 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.

      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-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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