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Steele Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$565k
Granted FY2025still arriving
53
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.1MEducation$957kCivil Rights$270kYouth Development$267kHuman Services$210kEmployment$137kPhilanthropy$93kFood & Nutrition$71kOther$0
02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $157k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $408k
$6,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$42,500
Individual grant recipient$40,000
EVERY THIRD SATURDAY$30,000
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES$30,000
THE COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE$30,000
CANTERBURY SCHOOL$30,000
UNITED WOMEN OF COLOR$30,000
CUBS CHARITIES COMMUNITY FUND$27,500
Individual grant recipient$25,000
FREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRESH START WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%CHILDRENS VILLAGE: $2k → 9%PARTNERSHIP WITH NATIVE AMERICANS: $10k → 14%TRANSGENDER RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW MEXICO: $12k → 14%TRANSGENDER RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW MEXICO: $8k → 14%TRANSGENDER RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW MEXICO: $7k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $6k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $5k → 23%COVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $3k → 23%URBAN INITIATIVES: $10k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $8k → 14%CHARITY WATER: $4k → 17%BELLA'S ANGELS: $3k → 11%URBAN INITIATIVES: $5k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES: $5k → 14%FOOD DEPOT: $10k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $10k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $5k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $3k → 12%FOOD DEPOT: $1k → 12%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
DC
OK
LA
AL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 68 repeat orgs$301k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
21

Total granted

$3.3M
$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+47%

Still filing today

60%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CS
    CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +51%
  • MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +608%
  • TC
    The Cara Program
    9× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • FC
    Freedom Community Centergraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +47%
  • NO
    NEW ORLEANS ROWING CLUB LTDgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +56%
  • UW
    UNITED WORLD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network

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.

Education
2
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

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…

Philanthropy
3
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
4
Golden Gate University

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…

Education
5
Institute for Nonprofit Practice Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Upwardly Global

Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.

Employment
7
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Embracing Equity Inc

Embracing equity cultivates the mindsets and practices necessary to create an affirming, inclusive, and equitable educational ecosystem.

Education
9
Santa Fe Institute

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,…

Science & Tech
10
University of New Haven

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…

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

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.

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12
Jobsfirstnyc

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.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ms Foundation for Women Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

64 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
48/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SANTA FE PREP STRATGIC IMPACT FUND: $192,400 · OtherSANTA FE PREP STRATGIC IMPACT FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $160,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBANNER LAKE COMMUNITY FUND: $142,213 · OtherBANNER LAKE COMMUNITY FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $120,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAYO CLINIC: $97,213 · OtherNANTZ NATIONAL ALZHEIMER CENTER: $80,750 · OtherJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $69,500 · OtherHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $92,525 · Other+57 more: $1,124,071 · Other+57 moreCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $185,050 · EducationCANTERBURY SCHOOL…FREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC: $127,000 · EducationFREDONIA COLLEGE …SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $53,050 · EducationSANTA FE PREPARAT…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO: $43,500 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SC…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $36,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FO…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TU…Benola Inc: $33,225 · EducationBenola IncFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $23,000 · Education+3 more: $26,725 · EducationCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $55,000 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $55,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $42,500 · HealthGERARD'S HOUSE: $41,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $24,500 · HealthUptown Group Inc: $19,000 · HealthST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $13,000 · Health+1 more: $8,000 · HealthUNITED WOMEN OF COLOR: $106,150 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD DEPOT: $38,613 · Human ServicesURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $27,707 · Human ServicesTHE TRANSGENDER RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW MEXICO: $26,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $13,300 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesPartnership With Native Americans: $9,500 · Human Services+4 more: $13,600 · Human ServicesMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $146,307 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $56,860 · Civil RightsJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $108,500 · PhilanthropySANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $27,300 · PhilanthropyNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $20,000 · PhilanthropyGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC: $18,500 · PhilanthropyThe Cara Program: $136,500 · Employment
Other$2,078,672Education$562,550Health$258,000Human Services$245,370Civil Rights$203,167Philanthropy$174,300Employment$136,500

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 budgetCANTERBURY SCHOOL INC: $185,050 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC: $146,307 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetThe Cara Program: $136,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetFREDONIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INC: $127,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $108,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WOMEN OF COLOR: $106,150 over 4y, 15% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $92,525 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $69,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $56,860 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $55,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $53,050 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO: $43,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $43,175 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $42,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGERARD'S HOUSE: $41,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $38,613 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBenola Inc: $33,225 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $32,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE: $32,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetEVERY THIRD SATURDAY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetURBAN INITIATIVES INC: $27,707 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $27,325 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $27,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRANSGENDER RESOURCE CENTER OF NEW MEXICO: $26,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $24,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC: $23,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFIRSTLINE SCHOOLS INC: $23,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE CAMPS INCORPORATED: $21,200 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom Community Center: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWOMEN GOLFERS GIVE BACK: $19,100 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetUptown Group Inc: $19,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetGROWING UP NEW MEXICOINC: $18,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS ROWING CLUB LTD: $15,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetHOBE SOUND BIBLE COLLEGE INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW ORLEANS: $13,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMake the Road New York: $12,510 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSITE SANTA FE: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ORLEANS WOMEN & CHILDREN'S SHELTER INC: $10,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOLACE SEXUAL ASSAULT SERVICES: $10,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBLACK GIRL VENTURES FOUNDATION: $9,510 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPartnership With Native Americans: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ELIZABETH SHELTER CORPORATION: $9,500 over 3y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Santa Fe Community Fo…The Frost FoundationGale Family FoundationNancy Ann Mellen Foun…Anchorum St VincentLos Alamos National L…Thornburg FoundationThe Greater New Orlea…Rotary Club of Santa …La LigaSt Vincent HospitalThe Abeles Foundation
Santa Fe Community FoundationNM27× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Steele Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steele Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    9get no government money at all
    21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    How do I get to Steele Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Steele Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 102 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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