Alabama · Private foundation
Steiner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $421k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 20
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Steiner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $421k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $334k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $315k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $264k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $202k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $202k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $456,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Indian Springs School | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Cahaba River Society Inc | $32,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Highlands Day School Foundation | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| YMCA | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Birmingham Botanical Society Inc | $15,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Cliff Valley School Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Birmingham Landmarks Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| A G Gaston Boys and Girls Club | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vulcan Park Foundation | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Central Alabama Inc | $456,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Indian Springs School | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Cahaba River Society Inc | $32,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Highlands Day School Foundation | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| YMCA | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Birmingham Botanical Society Inc | $15,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Cliff Valley School Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Birmingham Landmarks Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| A G Gaston Boys and Girls Club | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vulcan Park Foundation | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Glenn School for Young Children | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Birmingham Historical Society | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Grace Episcopal Church | $100 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Steiner Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Protective Life Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Jones Family Fund · Dunn-French Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · McWane Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation
How this is measured
About Steiner Foundation
- How much does Steiner Foundation give?
- Steiner Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $421,085 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Steiner Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (26%), Human Services (25%), Religion (17%).
- Who are Steiner Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Way of Central Alabama Inc ($456k), Indian Springs School ($50k), Cahaba River Society Inc ($32k).
- Does Steiner Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Steiner Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Steiner Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation, Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust.
- Where is Steiner Foundation based?
- Steiner Foundation is based in AL.
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