Ohio · Private foundation
Steel Valley Charities
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.
- $256k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 50
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 16
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Steel Valley Charities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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 | 48 | $251k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $122k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $239k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $80k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $67k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $71k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $230k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 50 | $66k | 34% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Mission Ministries Inc | $376,500 | 9 | 8% |
| Aim Women's Center | $179,500 | 9 | 26% |
| Jefferson County Christian School Inc | $131,100 | 5 | 6% |
| The House of the Carpenter Inc | $66,800 | 9 | 4% |
| Kugatta Inc | $63,950 | 6 | 37% |
| 91 Four | $28,054 | 9 | 2% |
| Empire United Methodist Church | $20,650 | 3 | n/a |
| Childfund International USA | $14,418 | 9 | 0% |
| Harmony Church | $13,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urban Mission Ministries Inc | $376,500 | 9 | 8% |
| Aim Women's Center | $179,500 | 9 | 26% |
| Jefferson County Christian School Inc | $131,100 | 5 | 6% |
| The House of the Carpenter Inc | $66,800 | 9 | 4% |
| Kugatta Inc | $63,950 | 6 | 37% |
| 91 Four | $28,054 | 9 | 2% |
| Empire United Methodist Church | $20,650 | 3 | n/a |
| Childfund International USA | $14,418 | 9 | 0% |
| Harmony Church | $13,300 | 2 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center of Hope Friendship Room | $9,600 | 4 | 2% |
| Ohio Valley Health Center | $9,100 | 9 | 1% |
| Center for Global Impact Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Relationship Builders Inc | $8,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Come and See Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Jefferson County Humane Society | $4,850 | 8 | 0% |
| Voice of the Martyrs Inc | $4,775 | 9 | n/a |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $4,400 | 9 | 0% |
| American Bible Society | $4,400 | 8 | 0% |
| Proverbs 31 Ministry Inc | $4,200 | 8 | 0% |
| The Navigators | $4,175 | 8 | n/a |
| L a W S Movement | $4,150 | 5 | n/a |
| Calvary Pentecostal Church | $3,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Global Media Outreach | $3,450 | 9 | 0% |
| National Day of Prayer Task Force | $2,650 | 7 | 0% |
| A Childs Place Casa Ltd | $2,600 | 5 | 1% |
| Wycliffe Associates Inc | $2,525 | 7 | n/a |
| Ohio Right to Life Society Inc | $2,400 | 7 | 0% |
| Unaltered Ministries | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center Inc | $2,000 | 8 | 0% |
| American Battlefield Trust | $1,900 | 5 | 0% |
| Coleman Professional Services Inc | $1,450 | 3 | 0% |
| American Family Association Inc | $1,425 | 8 | 0% |
| Potomac Hills Presbyterian Church | $1,250 | 3 | n/a |
| Ohio Valley Youth Network | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Campus Crusade for Christ Inc | $1,042 | 4 | n/a |
| Seedbed Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Widows & Orphans | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Guideposts Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Crossroads North River | $850 | 3 | n/a |
| Blue Letter Bible | $800 | 2 | 0% |
| Coral Ridge Ministries Media Inc | $800 | 3 | 0% |
| Focus on the Family | $600 | 1 | n/a |
| Partners in Bible Translation Inc | $600 | 2 | n/a |
| Bay Six Project | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Christian Virtue | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Light of Life Ministries Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| St Mark Lutheran Church | $475 | 2 | n/a |
| Western Pennsylvania Conservancy | $425 | 3 | 0% |
| First Methodist Church | $300 | 1 | n/a |
| Paralyzed Veterans of America | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $210 | 3 | 0% |
| Judy Maple Foundation | $200 | 2 | 0% |
| Richmond Volunteer Fire & Rescue Co Inc | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Josh Merriman Foundation | $200 | 2 | n/a |
| Starkdale Presbyterian Church | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| First Baptist Church | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc | $50 | 1 | 0% |
| National Park Foundation | $35 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 66 recipients with no EIN on record ($220k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Steel Valley Charities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Mary Jane Brooks Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc · Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust · John C Williams Charitable Tr 8024 · Charles M Pugliese and Thelma M Pugliese Charitable Foundation · Robert H Reakirt Fdn Equities · Hancock County Savings Charitable Foundation · In His Steps Foundation · Servant Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
About Steel Valley Charities
- How much does Steel Valley Charities give?
- Steel Valley Charities reported 49 grants totaling $256,379 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 50 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Steel Valley Charities fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (48%), Health (17%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Steel Valley Charities's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Urban Mission Ministries Inc ($377k), Aim Women's Center ($180k), Jefferson County Christian School Inc ($131k).
- Does Steel Valley Charities fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Steel Valley Charities 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 Steel Valley Charities?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mary Jane Brooks Charitable Trust, Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley Inc, Esther N Simmons Charitable Trust.
- Where is Steel Valley Charities based?
- Steel Valley Charities is based in OH.
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