· Private foundation
Steiner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST STEPHENS CHURCH | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $100,000 |
| COLLAT FAMILY SERVICES | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM MUSEUM OF ART | $25,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| RED MOUNTAIN THEATRE | $10,000 |
| CAHABA RIVER SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $5,250 |
| FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HIGHLANDS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CLIFF VALLEY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,685 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $456k · revenue +21%- ISINDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +17%
- CRCahaba River Society Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $32k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- BLBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -28%
- RCRED CROSSone grant, 2020 · $5k
- VPVULCAN PARK MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.
To promote the value of using a realtor and to enhance our members' opportunities to serve customers in a professional, ethical and profitable manner within an environment that fosters cooperation among the membership.
Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.
As conservation leaders, the red river zoo connects our community to nature and inspires people to help save species.
Guided by our motto, learning through living, indian springs school fosters a love of learning and creativity, a sense of integrity and moral courage, and an ethic of participatory citizenship with respect for individuality and independent…
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
Inspire joyful exploration of science and nature through engaging experiences, unique resources, and exceptional staff.
In fulfillment of our mission to inspire a culture of understanding and discovery of our natural world through conservation, innovation and leadership, our goal is to build a first class zoo for middle tennessee and to develop a facility…
Crestwood day school is a private elementary (k-6th) grade school in alabama.
Education of grades pre-school through eighth grade.
The mission of the charter school is to inspire all their children to the highest levels of academic achievement through a rigorous curriculum that integrates the wonders of the natural world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Birmingham Botanical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN SPRINGS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Cahaba River Society Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YMCA ↗
- Who funds THE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Cliff Valley School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC ↗
- Who funds A G GASTON BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds VULCAN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Historical Society ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Steiner Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.