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Steiner Family Foundation

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.

$660k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$1.6MAnimals$895kInternational$550kCivil Rights$450kYouth Development$100kArts & Culture$81kHealth$11kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $625k
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMAZON FRONTLINES$150,000
WILD LOVE PRESERVE$150,000
THE TIPI RAISERS$75,000
NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND$50,000
AMERICAN WILD HORSE CAMPAIGN$50,000
LAND TRUST OF THE TREASURE VALLEY$50,000
LAKOTA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT$50,000
IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC$50,000
BOISE ART MUSEUM$35,000
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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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $550k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE TIPI RAISERS: $75k → 14%THE TIPI RAISERS: $75k → 7%THE TIPI RAISERS: $75k → 14%THE TIPI RAISERS: $75k → 7%THE TIPI RAISERS: $75k → 14%THE TIPI RAISERS: $75k → 14%THE TIPI RAISERS: $50k → 14%THE TIPI RAISERS: $25k → 14%THE TIPI RAISERS: $25k → 14%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 12 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
7

Total granted

$3.8M
$115k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
0%

Still filing today

92%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsCommunity ImprovementHealthHuman ServicesEmploymentOther
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

  • WL
    WILD LOVE PRESERVE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $720k · revenue +90% · 25% of their budget
  • AF
    AMAZON FRONTLINES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $675k · revenue +79%
  • TT
    THE TIPI RAISERS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $550k · revenue +395%

Funded once

  • NDN COLLECTIVE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -74%
  • AW
    AMERICAN WILD HORSE CAMPAIN
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • ES
    Emma Suzanne Mills Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
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
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
3
Idaho Wildlife Federation

The Idaho Wildlife Federation (IWF) promotes the conservation of Idaho's wildlife heritage and legacy of sporting opportunities for the current and future generations.

Animals
4
Fundacion Cordillera Tropical

Conservation of natural resources

International
5
Palouse Land Trust Inc

Our mission is to work with landowners and communities to conserve the lands we love, now and forever, and to enrich connections to the natural world.

Environment
6
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
7
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership
Environment
8
Natura International Inc

Natura International conserves rainforests and other key natural ecosystems and the endangered species they contain through creation of protected areas in collaboration with local governments and communities in Latin America. In this way…

Public Benefit
9
Natura Bolivia Foundation

The Natura Bolivia Foundation is dedicated to implementing, and evaluating the impact of conservation and development programs, with a focus on watershed conservation, protected areas, and incentive based conservation in Bolivia. We work…

International
10
Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment
11
Alaska Wildlife Alliance

Support ecosystem-based wildlife management by increasing public awareness of wildlife issues, responding to information requests, advocating for science-based wildlife habitat management through proposal and comment submissions, and…

Environment
12
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Tipi Raisers; the most unlike its peers is Wild Love Preserve. 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 20 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMAZON FRONTLINES: $675,000 · EnvironmentAMAZON FRONTLINESAmazon Watch Inc: $375,000 · EnvironmentAmazon Watch IncThe Pachamama Alliance: $350,500 · EnvironmentThe Pachamama AllianceLAND TRUST OF THE TREASURE VALLEY: $165,000 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST OF THE TREASURE VALLEYWILD LOVE PRESERVE: $720,000 · AnimalsWILD LOVE PRESERVEAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN: $125,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRES…THE TIPI RAISERS: $550,000 · Human ServicesTHE TIPI RAISER…+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $400,000 · Civil RightsNATIVE AMER…Individual grant recipient: $260,000 · OtherIndividual …IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC: $50,000 · OtherIDAHO CONSE…AMERICAN WILD HORSE CAMPAIN: $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN WI…NDN COLLECTIVE INC: $50,000 · OtherNDN COLLECT…+4 more: $5,220 · OtherLAKOTA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: $100,000 · HealthNational Alopecia Areata Foundation: $10,875 · HealthBOISE ART MUSEUM INC: $80,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$1,565,500Animals$845,000Human Services$560,000Civil Rights$400,000Other$415,220Health$110,875Arts & Culture$80,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWILD LOVE PRESERVE: $720,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetAMAZON FRONTLINES: $675,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetTHE TIPI RAISERS: $550,000 over 9y, 24% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $400,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAmazon Watch Inc: $375,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetThe Pachamama Alliance: $350,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLAND TRUST OF THE TREASURE VALLEY: $165,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN: $125,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLAKOTA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: $100,000 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetBOISE ART MUSEUM INC: $80,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNDN COLLECTIVE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Alopecia Areata Foundation: $10,875 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEmma Suzanne Mills Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetTHRESHOLD FOUNDATION: $2,545 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WORKERS' COMPENSATION FOUNDATION INC: $1,125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJunior League of Boise Idaho Inc: $550 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Steiner Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steiner Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • International Workers' Compensation Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–30%
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 20 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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