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Staenberg Family Foundation

To be organized, and at all times hereafter, to be operated exclusively for the benefit of and to be operated, supervised and controlled by the jewish federation of st.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$378k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$12MHuman Services$6.8MArts & Culture$4.2MReligion$1.5MEducation$1.0MHealth$605kCommunity Improvement$440kCivil Rights$398kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 26 grants below total $1,369,400 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,597,228 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $227,828 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $443k
  • $250k+2 grants · $672k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Maryville University$378,000
Jewish Federation of St Louis$293,600
JEWISHColorado$180,000
Municipal Theater Association of St Louis (MUNY)$120,000
National Council of Jewish Women St Louis Section$92,500
Cancer Supports Community St Louis$50,000
Be the Narrative$36,000
Epstein Hebrew Academy$27,000
Friends of United Hatzalah$27,000
Ukrainian Patriot Inc$18,000
Esther Miller Bais Yaakov$18,000
Jazz St Louis$10,000
Central Reform Congregation$10,000
College Bound$10,000
Shalom Park$9,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $5.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Shalom Park: $9k → 8%FEED MY PEOPLE: $18k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $4.8M → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $52k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $42k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $31k → 11%COVENANT PLACE FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $27k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $18k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY CTR- NISHMAH GRANT: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
MD
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 42 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

42 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
34

Total granted

$12M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+37%

Still filing today

81%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $584k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementReligionHuman ServicesOther

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

  • SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2.3M · revenue +51%
  • ES
    ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $285k · revenue +56%
  • CS
    CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $177k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - DENVER
    one grant, 2018 · $1.6M
  • CS
    CHURCHILL SCHOOL AND CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +88%
  • OU
    ORTHODOX UNION
    one grant, 2023 · $54k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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3
Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City

To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.

Philanthropy
4
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
5
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
6
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
7
Jewish Family and Children's Service Inc

Strengthening the community by providing behavioral health, healthcare and social services to all ages, faiths and backgrounds.

Human Services
8
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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9
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…

Philanthropy
10
Jewish Senior Life

To enhance the quality of life, health, and well-being of jewish older adults, their families, and others in our community, consistent with the values and traditions of our jewish heritage.

Religion
11
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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12
Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Shaving Israel. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr13%3%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr20%28%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr15%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%2%10–20yr20%5%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr15%72%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/85
the rest of the field
12%
4,269/35,845

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.

04the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 91 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
46/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Jewish Federation of St Louis — $6,139,096 · PhilanthropyJewish Federation of St LouisJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA INC — $5,854,441 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA INC+6 more — $780,800 · Philanthropy+6 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,020,369 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CENT…+3 more — $57,000 · Human ServicesSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $2,250,000 · Arts & CultureSIMON WIESENTHA…CENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS — $1,020,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER OF CREAT…CRAFT ALLIANCE — $240,000 · Arts & CultureCRAFT ALLIANCE+5 more — $170,300 · Arts & CultureJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - DENVER — $1,573,945 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNIT…CONGREGATION EMANUEL — $600,000 · OtherCONGREGATION EM…JEWISH-COLORADO — $137,500 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $131,000 · Other+44 more — $1,368,281 · Other+44 moreMaryville University - St Louis — $378,000 · EducationCHURCHILL SCHOOL AND CENTER — $200,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $160,000 · EducationBe The Narrative formerly Student to Student Inc — $108,000 · EducationSAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL — $79,658 · EducationESTHER MILLER BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOL OF ST LOUIS — $63,000 · Education+5 more — $62,300 · EducationENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $285,000 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS SECTION — $134,500 · Community ImprovementREGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL — $102,657 · Community ImprovementVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC — $40,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $12,200 · Community ImprovementCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS — $176,600 · HealthGATEWAY TO HOPE — $46,200 · HealthINTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS — $18,000 · HealthCASA DE SALUD — $12,200 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · Health+2 more — $15,200 · Health
Philanthropy$12,774,337Human Services$5,077,369Arts & Culture$3,680,300Other$3,810,726Education$1,050,958Community Improvement$574,357Health$278,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJewish Federation of St Louis — $6,139,096 over 8y, 6.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF OMAHA INC — $5,854,441 over 5y, 17% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,020,369 over 7y, 15% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC — $2,250,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetCENTER OF CREATIVE ARTS — $1,020,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis — $378,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $285,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetJEWISHColorado — $280,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCRAFT ALLIANCE — $240,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $211,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHURCHILL SCHOOL AND CENTER — $200,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY OF GREATER ST LOUIS — $176,600 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $160,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $144,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JEWISH WOMEN ST LOUIS SECTION — $134,500 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $131,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS JEWISH LIGHT — $123,582 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetCANDID — $120,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetA MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND — $108,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBe The Narrative formerly Student to Student Inc — $108,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetREGIONAL BUSINESS COUNCIL — $102,657 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetJAZZ ST LOUIS — $80,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSAUL MIROWITZ JEWISH SCHOOL — $79,658 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetB'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION — $72,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $66,001 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ST LOUIS MEN'S GROUP AGAINST CANCER — $66,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetESTHER MILLER BAIS YAAKOV HIGH SCHOOL OF ST LOUIS — $63,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $54,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDANCE — $54,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS — $52,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGATEWAY TO HOPE — $46,200 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC — $44,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYESHIVAT KADIMAH HIGH SCHOOL — $42,750 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGO ST LOUIS — $37,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC — $36,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUKRAINIAN PATRIOT INC — $36,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetCOVENANT PLACE FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetKIPP ST LOUIS — $23,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI CURES EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetST LOUIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $21,600 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC — $19,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CROWN CENTER INC — $18,431 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetINTERFAITH RESIDENCE D/B/A DOORWAYS — $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST LOUIS AQUARIUM AT UNION STATION FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFEED MY PEOPLE — $18,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUDAISM ALIVE DBA JEWISH ROCK RADIO — $18,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPRIZMAH CENTER FOR JEWISH DAY SCHOOLS INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

St Louis Community Fo…Jewish Federation of …St Louis Community Fo…Millstone FoundationSam and Marilyn Fox F…World Wide Technology…Washington UniversityEdward Jones Foundati…Centene FoundationUnited Way of Greater…The Kranzberg Family …Trio Foundation of St…
St Louis Community Foundation IncMO54.2× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of St Louis · St Louis Community Foundation · Millstone Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Washington University · Edward Jones Foundation · Centene Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The Kranzberg Family Charitable Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis

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 Staenberg Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Staenberg Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Staenberg Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 91 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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