Virginia · Private foundation
Robin & Christopher Steis 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.
- $32k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $349
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 20
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $81k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Robin & Christopher Steis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 15 | $32k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $16k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $11k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $12k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $34k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $10k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $7k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delta Upsilon Educational Foundation | $31,155 | 6 | 1% |
| Yellowstone Forever | $4,673 | 3 | 0% |
| National Park Foundation | $3,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Georgetown Preparatory School Inc | $3,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Unbound | $2,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Families Fighting Flu Inc | $2,238 | 3 | 0% |
| Association of National Park Rangers | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $1,170 | 6 | 0% |
| Golisano Children's Museum of Naples Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Friends of Iolani Palace | $662 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robin & Christopher Steis 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.
Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Robin & Christopher Steis Foundation with peer funders
About Robin & Christopher Steis Foundation
- How much does Robin & Christopher Steis Foundation give?
- Robin & Christopher Steis Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $31,536 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Robin & Christopher Steis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (46%), Education (30%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Robin & Christopher Steis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Delta Upsilon Educational Foundation ($31k), Yellowstone Forever ($5k), National Park Foundation ($3k).
- Does Robin & Christopher Steis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robin & Christopher Steis 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 Robin & Christopher Steis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.
- Where is Robin & Christopher Steis Foundation based?
- Robin & Christopher Steis Foundation is based in VA.
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