· Private foundation
Steele Foundation for Hope
Its FY2024 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $323k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SIMPRINT TECHNOLOGY LIMITED | $1,500,000 |
| PROJECT LIFE INTERNATIONAL | $1,000,000 |
| GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL | $528,000 |
| KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL | $250,000 |
| AKIRACHIX | $250,000 |
| HOSPICE HOUSE PROJECT | $223,283 |
| VILLAGE HOPECORE INTERNATIONAL | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,982 |
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 US giving — 54% of grant dollars ($11M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 46% that went abroad ($9.4M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Beyond the US — 46% of all-years giving ($9.4M)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- PLPROJECT LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +105% · 97% of their budget
- BTBUILDING TOMORROW INC2× · 2022–2023 · $800k · revenue +55%
- KIKICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $715k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- EEARTHENABLEone grant, 2023 · $1.5M
- AALIGHTone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +22%
- CCCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORTone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -35%
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.
Working together to create a just and sustainable world through transformative farmer training that nourishes communities and the Earth.
Pci is a global development organization that drives innovation from the ground up to enhance health end hunger, overcome hardship and advance women & girls-resulting in meaningful and measurable change in people's lives.
Water to Thrive transforms lives in rural Africa by working with partners and beneficiaries to bring the blessing of clean, safe water, connecting communities in need with supporters who have the heart and spirit to make a difference
Earthenable works to solve the housing crisis in africa by revolutionizing the rural housing industry through innovative, affordable, and sustainable home-building solutions. its mission is to create healthier, safer, and climate-resilient…
Relief international (ri) partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change, and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience, and promote long-term health and wellbeing of people in the communities that we serve. relief…
Light from light partners with local leaders to provide healthcare and nutrition for the most vulnerable communities in haiti. our vision is that no child ever dies from malnutrition. our three program focus areas are: 1) nutrition…
To resource, train, and mobilize volunteers, churches,& other organizations to respond to disasters in the united states & world-wide
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
Lifewater international is a non-profit christian water development organization dedicated to effectively serving vulnerable children and families by partnering with underserved communities to overcome water poverty.
Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Central Kitchen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Life International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 PROJECT LIFE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds BUILDING TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Home Health and Hospice Care ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE HOPECORE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Families in Transition ↗
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.
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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 Foundation for Hope 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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