· Private foundation
Sam S Stein and Rose Stein Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $127k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAC of Erie Huron & Richland Counties | $60,000 |
| Firelands Symphony Orchestra | $32,000 |
| CASA (EC Court Appointed Special Advocate) | $30,000 |
| Kinship Inc | $20,000 |
| Erie County Board of Development Disabilities | $15,000 |
| Project I Am Foundation | $10,000 |
| Children's Hunger Alliance | $10,000 |
| Second Harvest Food Bank | $10,000 |
| OHgo | $7,500 |
| Hospice of Western Reserve | $7,500 |
| Perkins Local School District | $5,000 |
| Cancer Services of Erie Cty | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Erie County Boys & Girls Club | $5,000 |
| Erie County Community Foundation | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FSFIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA6× · 2020–2025 · $134k · revenue +18%
- KIKINSHIP INCORPORATED6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +26%
- PIProject IAM Foundation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +140%
Funded once
- ECERIE COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATEone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -5%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- OPOHANA PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
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.
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How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FIRELANDS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds KINSHIP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Project IAM Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR FIRELANDS ↗
- Who funds OH-GO ↗
- Who funds STEIN HOSPICE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ERIE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FIRELANDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ERIE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHWESTERN OHIO ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sam S Stein and Rose Stein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sam S Stein and Rose Stein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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