· Private foundation
Steiner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CLIFF VALLEY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HIGHLANDS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,685 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against -28% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 34 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Steiner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steiner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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