How much does Steelcase Foundation give?

Steelcase Foundation reported 98 grants totaling $7,181,114 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 101 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Steelcase Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (26%), Arts & Culture (17%), Human Services (13%).

Who are Steelcase Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Heart of West Michigan United Way ($1.4M), Grand Valley State University ($820k), Grand Rapids Art Museum ($575k).

Does Steelcase Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Steelcase Foundation 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 Steelcase Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Frey Foundation, Heart of West Michigan United Way.

Where is Steelcase Foundation based?

Steelcase Foundation is based in MI.

Foundation Dossiers

Michigan · Private foundation

Steelcase Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$7.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 98
Grants FY2024: 101
Organizations funded FY2023: 50%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $506,026
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 101; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 12
Total assets, FY2024: $129M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Steelcase Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthHousing & ShelterOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	96	$6.5M	31%
FY2023	101	$6.8M	50%
FY2022	71	$5.6M	99%
FY2021	2	$50k	100%
FY2020	1	$2.8M	n/a

98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$6.4MArts & Culture$4.3MHuman Services$3.3MPhilanthropy$2.7MYouth Development$2.1MHealth$2.0MCrime & Legal$1.3MCivil Rights$690kOther$0

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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Heart of West Michigan United Way	$1,350,000	3	3%
Grand Valley State University	$820,000	3	n/a
Grand Rapids Art Museum	$575,000	3	4%
Leading Educators Inc	$525,000	3	2%
United Methodist Community House	$418,500	3	4%
The Leadership Academy Inc	$380,250	3	1%
STEM Greenhouse Inc	$330,000	3	19%
K-Connect	$325,000	3	23%
The Refugee Education Center	$310,000	3	8%
The Diatribe Inc	$310,000	3	9%

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All grantees of Steelcase Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Heart of West Michigan United Way	$1,350,000	3	3%
Grand Valley State University	$820,000	3	n/a
Grand Rapids Art Museum	$575,000	3	4%
Leading Educators Inc	$525,000	3	2%
United Methodist Community House	$418,500	3	4%
The Leadership Academy Inc	$380,250	3	1%
STEM Greenhouse Inc	$330,000	3	19%
K-Connect	$325,000	3	23%
The Refugee Education Center	$310,000	3	8%
The Diatribe Inc	$310,000	3	9%
Realism Is Loyalty	$305,800	3	22%
Grand Rapids Civic Theatre Inc	$303,000	3	4%
Iccf Community Homes	$300,600	3	1%
Grand Rapids Children's Museum	$300,250	3	5%
Grand Rapids Youth Commonwealth Inc	$300,250	3	3%
Aya Youth Collective	$300,000	3	5%
Health Net of West Michigan	$280,500	3	3%
Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State	$251,130	3	n/a
Grand Rapids Whitewater Inc	$250,000	1	100%
Rende Progress Capital	$237,750	2	11%
Michigan Association of United Ways Inc	$225,000	3	3%
Limestone County Board of Education	$216,000	1	n/a
Kent School Services Network	$205,000	2	4%
Grand Rapids Urban League	$200,750	2	5%
Davenport University	$200,000	1	0%
Catholic Charities West Michigan	$200,000	2	1%
Grand Rapids Public Museum	$200,000	2	1%
Cook Museum of Natural Science	$182,090	2	3%
Camp Blodgett	$175,000	3	5%
The Delta Project	$150,000	3	20%
Affinity Mentoring	$150,000	2	25%
The Mosaic Film Experience	$150,000	3	54%
Code on Wheels	$150,000	3	42%
Family Promise of Grand Rapids	$150,000	2	2%
United Way of Athens-Limestone County	$150,000	3	14%
Safe Haven Ministries Inc	$150,000	2	3%
Womens Resource Center Inc	$149,587	1	13%
West Michigan Center for Arts & Technology	$135,500	3	2%
Math Medic Foundation	$130,000	3	89%
Michigan League for Public Policy	$125,000	3	2%
Ebony Road Players	$125,000	3	46%
Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities Inc	$110,000	3	9%
Baxter Community Center	$110,000	2	4%
Women's Resource Center	$100,500	1	3%
Young Money Finances	$100,000	2	21%
Catherines Health Center	$100,000	1	1%
Girls Growing II Women	$100,000	2	26%
Black Book Exchange Box	$100,000	2	n/a
Treetops Collective	$100,000	2	4%
The Arbor Circle Corporation	$100,000	2	0%
Special Olympics Michigan Inc	$100,000	2	0%
Puertas Abiertas Inc	$90,000	3	18%
Girls Choral Academy	$80,750	3	12%
Covenant House Michigan	$80,000	3	1%
Streams of Hope	$80,000	3	2%
Council of Michigan Foundations	$79,200	3	1%
Comprehensive Therapy Center	$75,750	3	2%
Public Thread X	$75,000	1	15%
Osofomaame	$65,250	2	n/a
Our Hope Association	$65,000	1	1%
The Other Way Ministries	$65,000	1	3%
Literacy Center of West Michigan	$60,000	2	2%
Disability Advocates of Kent County	$60,000	1	2%
Migrant Legal Aid Inc	$60,000	2	6%
Educate Tomorrow Corp	$60,000	2	1%
Datawise Foundation	$58,000	1	n/a
Women's Foundation of Alabama	$52,775	2	2%
Better Wiser Stronger Inc	$50,250	2	8%
Michigan Advocacy Program	$50,000	1	0%
Habitat for Humanity of Kent County Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Steepletown Neighborhood Services Inc	$50,000	1	3%
African Resource Center of West Michigan	$50,000	2	28%
Together West Michigan Education Fund	$50,000	1	19%
Gilda's Club Grand Rapids	$50,000	2	1%
Project Esme	$50,000	2	38%
Friends of Grand Rapids Parks	$50,000	2	3%
Vibrant Futures	$50,000	1	1%
Oakdale Neighbors	$45,000	2	14%
Storehouse of Community Resources	$45,000	1	1%
Opera Grand Rapids	$45,000	2	2%
First Steps Kent	$35,250	1	0%
Grand Rapids Public Schools Foundation	$35,000	1	5%
CASA of Kent County Inc	$35,000	1	5%
Wedgwood Christian Services	$30,000	1	0%
West Michigan Environmental Action Council Educational Foundation	$30,000	2	2%
Grand Rapids Pride Center	$30,000	1	4%
Our Kitchen Table	$30,000	1	29%
Lighthouse Immigrant Advocates	$30,000	1	2%
Immigration Law & Justice Michigan	$30,000	1	4%
Specialized Language Development Center Inc	$30,000	1	4%
Legal Services Alabama Inc	$30,000	1	0%
Planned Parenthood of Michigan	$30,000	1	0%
A Glimpse of Africa	$30,000	1	4%
Afterschool Alliance	$25,000	1	0%
City of Grand Rapids	$25,000	1	n/a
New City Kids Foundation	$25,000	1	5%
Mel Trotter Ministries	$25,000	1	0%
St Cecilia Music Center	$21,750	1	1%
Endless Opportunities	$20,000	1	14%
The Liberty Learning Foundation	$20,000	1	1%
Comprenew	$18,000	1	1%
Solutions to End Exploitation	$15,178	1	16%
Michigan Family Resources	$15,000	1	0%
Capita Social Inc	$12,500	1	1%
Marguerite Casey Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations	$10,000	1	0%
Urban Core Collective	$5,000	1	0%
Howard Community College	$2,500	1	n/a
Center for Urban Families Inc	$1,500	1	0%
Fusion Partnership Inc	$1,500	1	0%
Eightcap Inc	$1,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.7M), not named here.

Steelcase Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 103.

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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.

Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI142.7× affinity75 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · The Wege Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Corewell Health Group Return · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · The Sebastian Foundation · Krw Foundation · Cdv5 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.

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About Steelcase Foundation

How much does Steelcase Foundation give?: Steelcase Foundation reported 98 grants totaling $7,181,114 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 101 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Steelcase Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (26%), Arts & Culture (17%), Human Services (13%).
Who are Steelcase Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Heart of West Michigan United Way ($1.4M), Grand Valley State University ($820k), Grand Rapids Art Museum ($575k).
Does Steelcase Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Steelcase Foundation 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 Steelcase Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Grand Rapids Community Foundation, Frey Foundation, Heart of West Michigan United Way.
Where is Steelcase Foundation based?: Steelcase Foundation is based in MI.