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Steele Foundation for Hope

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$250,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,500,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 12
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$363M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Steele Foundation for Hope funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$3.9M0%
FY20239$9.1M33%
FY202212$7.4Mn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Science & Tech$6.9MInternational$6.2MHealth$3.7MEnvironment$1.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.0MYouth Development$500kHousing & Shelter$100kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Steele Foundation for Hope supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetProject Life International Inc: $1,846,422 over 3y, 97% of budgetGardens for Health International: $1,552,340 over 3y, 82% of budgetAlight: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBuilding Tomorrow Inc: $800,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetKickstart International Inc: $715,448 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCore Community Organized Relief Effort: $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHome Health and Hospice Care: $423,501 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetVillage Hopecore International: $260,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetFamilies in Transition: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget

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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 10.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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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How do I get to Steele Foundation for Hope?

Find your warmest path to Steele Foundation for Hope 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.

About Steele Foundation for Hope

How much does Steele Foundation for Hope give?
Steele Foundation for Hope reported 8 grants totaling $3,854,265 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Steele Foundation for Hope fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (34%), International (30%), Health (18%).
Who are Steele Foundation for Hope's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Project Life International Inc ($1.8M), Gardens for Health International ($1.6M), Alight ($1.0M).
Does Steele Foundation for Hope fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Steele Foundation for Hope accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Steele Foundation for Hope?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Steele Foundation for Hope based?
Steele Foundation for Hope is based in NH.

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 15 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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