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Steffens 21st Century Foundation II

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.

$26k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
56%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 9
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$653k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Steffens 21st Century Foundation II funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureScience & TechHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$26k33%
FY20249$91k56%
FY20239$160k78%
FY20228$345k63%
FY20216$26k83%
FY20206$216kn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$563kHealth$294kRecreation & Sports$185kCommunity Improvement$130kArts & Culture$29kScience & Tech$8kSocial Science$8kHuman Services$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
NC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Steffens 21st Century Foundation II by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The V Foundation$178,62030%
Womens Sports Foundation$130,00031%
Napa Valley Vintners$130,00012%
Don'T Ever Give Up Inc$100,00010%
North Bay BMX Inc$21,50053%
United States Ski Team Foundation$20,00030%
Blue Oak School$10,00010%
The Mount Sinai Hospital$10,00010%
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation$8,00030%
National Ability Center$5,00010%
The Seeing Eye Inc$5,00010%
Arts Council of Princeton$2,50010%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$1,50010%
Museum of Modern Art$1,50010%
The Presentation School$60010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($239k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Steffens 21st Century Foundation II supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe V Foundation: $178,620 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWomens Sports Foundation: $130,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNapa Valley Vintners: $130,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDon'T Ever Give Up Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Bay BMX Inc: $21,500 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBlue Oak School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mount Sinai Hospital: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNational Ability Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Seeing Eye Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArts Council of Princeton: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Presentation School: $600 over 1y, 0.0% 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 15.

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 IncCO5.9× affinity4 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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About Steffens 21st Century Foundation II

How much does Steffens 21st Century Foundation II give?
Steffens 21st Century Foundation II reported 6 grants totaling $25,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Steffens 21st Century Foundation II fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Health (21%), Recreation & Sports (14%).
Who are Steffens 21st Century Foundation II's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The V Foundation ($179k), Womens Sports Foundation ($130k), Napa Valley Vintners ($130k).
Does Steffens 21st Century Foundation II fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Steffens 21st Century Foundation II 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 Steffens 21st Century Foundation II?
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 Steffens 21st Century Foundation II based?
Steffens 21st Century Foundation II is based in NY.

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 31 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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