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Steelberg 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $7,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $6,000 |
| MENNONITE DISASTER SERVICE | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS | $5,000 |
| GIVEDIRECTLY INC | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL VOTE AT HOME INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| ARM IN ARM INC | $5,000 |
| LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC | $4,400 |
| FAIRVOTE | $4,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC | $3,500 |
| TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER | $3,000 |
| PRINCETON MOBILE FOOD PANTRY INC A NJ NONPROFIT | $3,000 |
| COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
72 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 15 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY6× · 2020–2025 · $47k · revenue +17%
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +53%- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- PCPRIME COALITION INCone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -41%
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINAone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Every Org. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
98 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 98 of the 111 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 GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds PRIME COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRVOTE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Waukegan To College NFP ↗
- Who funds National Vote At Home Institute ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds RepresentUs Education Fund ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Center Inc ↗
- Who funds POOR MAGAZINE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RANK THE VOTE INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY ↗
- Who funds UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON MOBILE FOOD PANTRY INC A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS ↗
- Who funds ARM IN ARM 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: Tides Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Boston Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ford Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Rockefeller Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation
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 Steelberg 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Arm in Arm Inc — 4% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Catholic Charities Diocese of Trenton — 2% of income from government
- Guadalupe Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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.