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Steffens 21st Century Foundation II at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% 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
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$653k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
US SKI & SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION$10,000
NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER$5,000
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY$3,000
PRINCETON SYMPHONY$2,500
NORTH BAY BMX$2,500
ARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON$2,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%VILLANOVA SOFTBALL: $5k → 10%DREXEL UNIVERISTY: $21k → 22%NAPA VALLEY VINTNERS: $130k → 9%THE PRESENTATION SCHOOL: $600 → 9%BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE: $20k → 13%WOMEN'S SPORTS FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%YALE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%V FOUNDATION: $150k → 8%US SKI & SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY: $3k → 11%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $103k → 10%COLLECTIVE NAPA VALLEY: $100k → 9%WOMEN'S SPORTS FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $100k → 8%US SKI & SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY: $3k → 11%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $100k → 10%COLLECTIVE NAPA VALLEY: $4k → 9%WOMEN'S SPORTS FOUNDATION: $30k → 17%V FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER: $5k → 5%PRINCETON SYMPHONY: $3k → 11%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $100k → 10%NAPA FORCE LACROSSE CLUB: $3k → 9%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $2k → 17%V FOUNDATION: $9k → 8%US SKI & SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%CENTURION: $2k → 11%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $100k → 10%THE KELLER RESTAURANT: $10k → 9%ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY: $5k → 17%INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY: $2k → 11%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $100k → 10%BLUE OAK SCHOOL: $10k → 9%MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $2k → 17%FOUNDATION ACADEMIES: $15k → 11%FRIENDS OF DARTMOUTH GOLF: $5k → 10%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL NY: $8k → 17%PRINCETON SYMPHONY: $19k → 11%MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 11%ARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON: $3k → 11%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

NH
NY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
NC
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$484k · 7 repeat orgs$380k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
21

Total granted

$484k
$372k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+12%

Still filing today

71%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureEducationScience & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TV
    THE V FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $179k · revenue +216%
  • WS
    Womens Sports Foundation
    3× · 2020–2024 · $130k · revenue +169%
  • NB
    North Bay BMX Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $22k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • NV
    Napa Valley Vintners
    one grant, 2020 · $130k · revenue -6%
  • DE
    DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -14%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $21k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
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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4
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
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
7
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
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
10
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
11
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
12
National Academy of Design

The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; the most unlike its peers is North Bay Bmx Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 31 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Trustees of Dartmouth College: $502,500 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College+2 more: $10,600 · EducationNapa Valley Vintners: $130,000 · OtherNapa Valley VintnersIndividual grant recipient: $104,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPRINCETON SYMPHONY: $21,500 · OtherPRINCETON SYMPHONYIndividual grant recipient: $21,287 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBUFFALO STATE COLLEGE: $20,000 · OtherBUFFALO STATE COLLEGEFOUNDATION ACADEMIES: $15,000 · Other+10 more: $57,500 · Other+10 moreTHE V FOUNDATION: $178,620 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATIONDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $100,000 · HealthDON'T EVER GIVE UP INCTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $10,000 · HealthWomens Sports Foundation: $130,000 · Recreation & SportsWomens Sports …North Bay BMX Inc: $21,500 · Recreation & SportsNorth Bay BMX …United States Ski Team Foundation: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsUnited States …+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Science & TechARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $1,500 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE SEEING EYE INC: $5,000 · Human Services
Education$513,100Other$369,287Health$288,620Recreation & Sports$176,500Science & Tech$8,000Arts & Culture$5,500Human Services$5,000

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 budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $502,500 over 5y, 0.0% of 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
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 Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Womens Sports Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Napa Valley Vintners ↗
  • Who funds DON'T EVER GIVE UP INC ↗
  • Who funds North Bay BMX Inc ↗
  • Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BLUE OAK SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF PRINCETON ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
  • Who funds THE PRESENTATION SCHOOL ↗

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 Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Steffens 21st Century Foundation II funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steffens 21st Century Foundation II. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
  • Arts Council of Princeton: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home