Washington · Private foundation
Steffens Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2024
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 48
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 11% of the organizations Steffens Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 43 | $1.6M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $1.6M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $1.1M | 3% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $1.6M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $412k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 42 | $409k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 39 | $361k | 31% |
| FY2017 | 36 | $386k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Thomas More Catholic Student Center | $500,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Cross Catholic Outreach Inc | $464,769 | 6 | n/a |
| Cross International Inc | $420,333 | 5 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $335,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Vanessa Behan | $310,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Palouse Discovery Science Center Inc | $240,000 | 7 | 28% |
| San Felipe Humanitarian Alliance | $210,000 | 8 | 62% |
| Walla Walla Community College Foundation | $196,240 | 6 | 3% |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | $170,000 | 7 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $165,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Steffens Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Lewis-Clark Valley Healthcare Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation
How this is measured
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About Steffens Foundation
- How much does Steffens Foundation give?
- Steffens Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $1,580,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Steffens Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (19%), Human Services (15%), Education (15%).
- Who are Steffens Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: St Thomas More Catholic Student Center ($500k), Cross Catholic Outreach Inc ($465k), Cross International Inc ($420k).
- Does Steffens Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Steffens 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 Steffens Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Innovia Foundation, The Avista Foundation, Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Steffens Foundation based?
- Steffens Foundation is based in WA.
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