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Steele Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $157k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $408k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $42,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| THE COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| CANTERBURY SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES | $30,000 |
| EVERY THIRD SATURDAY | $30,000 |
| UNITED WOMEN OF COLOR | $30,000 |
| CUBS CHARITIES COMMUNITY FUND | $27,500 |
| FREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FIRSTLINE SCHOOLS | $23,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| SOUTHHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME | $10,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
68 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 11 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k 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
- CSCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +51%
MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +608%- TCThe Cara Program9× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- FCFreedom Community Centergraduatedone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +47%
- NONEW ORLEANS ROWING CLUB LTDgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +56%
- UWUNITED WORLD COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The institute for nonprofit practice's mission is to transform communities by equipping the most promising nonprofit leaders with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to make their organizations effective, innovative, and…
Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Embracing equity cultivates the mindsets and practices necessary to create an affirming, inclusive, and equitable educational ecosystem.
The santa fe institute is a transdisciplinary research community that expands the boundaries of scientific understanding. its aim is to discover, comprehend, and communicate the common fundamental principles in complex physical,…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ms Foundation for Women Inc and the most unlike its peers is Endeavor Health Clinical Operations. 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 27 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 102 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 CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds The Cara Program ↗
- Who funds FREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WOMEN OF COLOR ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GERARD'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Benola Inc ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EVERY THIRD SATURDAY INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · Anchorum St Vincent · Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation Inc · La Liga · St Vincent Hospital · The Abeles 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 Steele 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.
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.
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