· 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of ROBIN & CHRISTOPHER STEIS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELTA UPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| SMITHSONIAN ASSOCIATES | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FDN | $1,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE | $1,000 |
| WETA | $500 |
| UNBOUND | $400 |
| COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION | $349 |
| NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND FOUNDATION USA | $262 |
| Individual grant recipient | $135 |
| FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE | $104 |
| MONTANA STATE FOUNDATION | $103 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| BISHOP MUSEUM | $65 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $18 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $732 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DUDELTA UPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +126%
- YFYELLOWSTONE FOREVER3× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +68%
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $3k · revenue +288%
Funded once
- GCGOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +58%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $781
- FTFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +126%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
To share the rich history and stories of america's conservation legacy.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Unbound. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DELTA UPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Unbound ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIGHTING FLU INC ↗
- Who funds Association of National Park Rangers ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF IOLANI PALACE ↗
- Who funds FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds BISHOP MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Shelter House Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
- Who funds Five Talents USA ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES INC ↗
- Who funds KUMU KAHUA THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds TKE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN SPRING GARDEN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-RIVER HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Robin & Christopher Steis Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.