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Steiner-Helsby Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$61k
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
13
Organizations funded FY2023
31%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$200
Largest grant, FY2023
$55,922
Organizations funded a year
11 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Steiner-Helsby Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 93% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202313$61k31%
FY202219$11k32%
FY202118$11k28%
FY202016$23k38%
FY201912$41k33%
FY201814$40k64%
FY201711$13kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$81kPhilanthropy$58kEducation$33kCivil Rights$8kHuman Services$3kScience & Tech$3kEnvironment$2kHealth$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($69k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Steiner-Helsby Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSeattle Art Museum: $40,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Repertory Theatre: $30,294 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of the Smith College: $17,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Washington Foundation: $14,625 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $7,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBainbridge Island Museum of Art: $3,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSociety for Technical Communication Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Dunhuang Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetInternational Women's House Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTown Hall Association: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCascade Public Media: $780 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetArboretum Foundation: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Humane Society for Seattleking County: $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Chamber Music Festival: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Garden Club Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPlantamnesty: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRenegades for Life Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Bush School: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEverstrong Prevention: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Gun Responsibility: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Parks Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVillagereach: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoodland Park Zoological Society: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPike Place Market Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior League of Seattle: $80 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Seattle FoundationWA34.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · The Norcliffe Foundation · Artsfund · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Loeb Charitable Foundation · Thurston Charitable Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · United Way of King County · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · American Gift Fund

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.

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About Steiner-Helsby Family Foundation

How much does Steiner-Helsby Family Foundation give?
Steiner-Helsby Family Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $60,677 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Steiner-Helsby Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Philanthropy (29%), Education (17%).
Who are Steiner-Helsby Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Seattle Art Museum ($41k), Seattle Repertory Theatre ($30k), The Trustees of the Smith College ($18k).
Does Steiner-Helsby Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Steiner-Helsby Family 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 Steiner-Helsby Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Wyman Youth Trust, The Norcliffe Foundation.
Where is Steiner-Helsby Family Foundation based?
Steiner-Helsby Family Foundation is based in WA.

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 45 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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