Ohio · Private foundation
Steele 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.
- $12k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $181k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Steele Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $12k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $12k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $11k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $9k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $11k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $11k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| On-The-Rise | $6,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Safe Harbor Incorporated | $4,250 | 4 | n/a |
| Cedarville University | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Eckerd College | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Missionary Church Inc | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Newson Missionary Church | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Commission to Every Nation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Renewed Strength Church | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Choosing Hope Adoptions Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The River Church | $500 | 2 | n/a |
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($44k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About Steele Foundation
- How much does Steele Foundation give?
- Steele Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $12,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Steele Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Religion (18%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Steele Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: On-The-Rise ($6k), Safe Harbor Incorporated ($4k), Cedarville University ($3k).
- Does Steele Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Steele 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 Steele Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Steele Foundation based?
- Steele Foundation is based in OH.
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