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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.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
79
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$108kCivil Rights$73kInternational$70kPublic Benefit$66kPublic Safety & Disaster$51kEnvironment$41kHuman Services$41kEducation$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 79 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$7,500
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC$6,000
MENNONITE DISASTER SERVICE$5,000
CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS$5,000
ARM IN ARM INC$5,000
GIVEDIRECTLY INC$5,000
NATIONAL VOTE AT HOME INSTITUTE$5,000
LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FUND INC$4,400
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$4,000
FAIRVOTE$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
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC$2,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRIME COALITION INC: $30k → 8%HOMELESS HEALTH CARE LOS ANGELES: $500 → 14%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $3k → 13%EMMAS TORCH LTD: $1k → 20%THINK OF US: $1k → 14%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $2k → 10%ARM IN ARM INC: $5k → 11%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $2k → 13%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $2k → 10%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $2k → 13%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $1k → 10%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $1k → 13%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $1k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $1k → 14%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $1k → 13%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $1k → 14%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $2k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $1k → 14%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $2k → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $2k → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $1k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $1k → 14%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $500 → 10%GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $500 → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $2k → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $2k → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $2k → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $2k → 10%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $500 → 10%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $450 → 14%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $500 → 10%INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS: $3k → 14%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$571k · 72 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
21

Total granted

$571k
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+22%

Still filing today

88%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsInternationalEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 DEPOSITORY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $47k · revenue +17%
  • HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +53%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • PC
    PRIME COALITION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -41%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
2
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
3
American Gas Association

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…

—
4
National Opinion Research Center

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…

Social Science
5
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
6
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

—
7
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

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…

Civil Rights
8
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
9
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
10
Climate Leadership Council Inc

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.

Environment
11
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

—
12
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; 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.
04the grantee network

98 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/98
Grantees still filing
55/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MENNONITE DISASTER SERVICE: $30,000 · OtherMENNONITE DISASTER SERVICEVASSAR COLLEGE: $15,500 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGECOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherPOOR MAGAZINE INC: $9,000 · OtherRepresentUs Education Fund: $10,000 · OtherREFUGEEONE: $17,000 · OtherREFUGEEONEPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERI…CHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $8,000 · Other+44 more: $103,975 · Other+44 moreGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $46,500 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO …HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $41,000 · Food & NutritionHARRY CHAPIN FOO…Feeding America: $11,500 · Food & NutritionFeeding America+1 more: $500 · Food & NutritionFAIRVOTE: $25,000 · Civil RightsFAIRVOTEAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL L…National Vote At Home Institute: $10,000 · Civil RightsNational Vote At…LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $8,700 · Civil RightsLAMBDA LEGAL DEF…Transgender Law Center: $8,650 · Civil RightsTransgender Law …NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $7,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRA…CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $5,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $4,000 · Civil RightsCHANGE ILLINOIS: $4,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $3,700 · Civil Rights+3 more: $5,900 · Civil Rights+3 morePRIME COALITION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesPRIME COALITION …GIVEDIRECTLY INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INCGuadalupe Center Inc: $9,000 · Human ServicesGuadalupe Center…MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $8,700 · Human ServicesMEDICAL DEBT RES…GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesGRACE PLACE FOR …Paws With A Cause: $6,000 · Human ServicesPaws With A Caus…INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $5,725 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL RE…ARM IN ARM INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $4,450 · Human Services+6 more: $6,000 · Human Services+6 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC: $27,500 · InternationalInternational…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $21,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $11,500 · InternationalHABITAT FOR H…INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $5,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $3,200 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $3,000 · International+5 more: $6,900 · International+5 moreWaukegan To College NFP: $10,000 · EducationRANK THE VOTE INC: $8,000 · EducationAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY: $7,500 · EducationFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,450 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $3,500 · EducationHOMEFRONT INC: $2,000 · EducationHER JUSTICE INC: $2,000 · Education+2 more: $2,400 · EducationVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $8,000 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $6,000 · Crime & LegalEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $4,000 · Crime & LegalCHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND: $1,750 · Crime & Legal
Other$224,475Food & Nutrition$99,500Civil Rights$96,950Human Services$94,875International$82,100Education$39,850Crime & Legal$29,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $46,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $41,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPRIME COALITION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRVOTE: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEEONE: $17,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNational Vote At Home Institute: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund: $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWaukegan To College NFP: $10,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOOR MAGAZINE INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGuadalupe Center Inc: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $8,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $8,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $8,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRANK THE VOTE INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPaws With A Cause: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $5,725 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARM IN ARM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCETON MOBILE FOOD PANTRY INC A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetEVERY ORG: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $4,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $4,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHANGE ILLINOIS: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $3,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Tides FoundationImpactassetsincBoston Foundation IncGs Donor Advised Phil…The Ford FoundationPrinceton Area Commun…Rockefeller Philanthr…The Rockefeller Found…Vanguard Charitable E…Chubb Charitable Foun…Silicon Valley Commun…John D and Catherine …
Tides FoundationCA18.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Steelberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steelberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 111 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home