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Steiner King Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$173k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$47k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$343kEnvironment$139kReligion$116kInternational$115kScience & Tech$57kPhilanthropy$52kPublic Benefit$46kCivil Rights$43kOther$0
02FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k34 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
$2,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDIATORS FOUNDATION$46,500
DRYLANDS AGROECOLOGY RESEARCH$17,950
ALLIANCE FOR COLLECTIVE ACTION$15,000
WILDCARE$11,900
ALL SEASONS CHALICE$10,770
EVANGELICALS FOR DEMOCRACY$8,000
COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR JUSTICE$5,000
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE$5,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$5,000
CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE$5,000
CENTER FOR COMMON GROUND$3,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$3,000
CHICKEN & EGG PICTURES$2,500
COLORADO HORSE RESCUE NETWORK$2,000
JABUTICABA PRODUCTIONS$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Horse Boy Foundation: $25k → 12%BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 12%Harvest Home LA: $1k → 14%There With Care: $1k → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $1k → 12%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%THERE WITH CARE: $1k → 12%There With Care: $1k → 12%Innocence Project: $500 → 17%There With Care: $1k → 12%There With Care: $500 → 12%THERE WITH CARE: $350 → 12%Midnight Mission: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$767k · 53 repeat orgs$253k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
125

Total granted

$767k
$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+14%

Still filing today

72%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalEducationCivil RightsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • UF
    UTAH FILM CENTER
    6× · 2017–2023 · $115k · revenue +167%
  • MEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +326%
  • Sundance Institute
    8× · 2017–2024 · $92k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • HB
    HORSE BOY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -92%
  • CM
    CHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue -16%
  • RS
    Rupert Spira Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue ×22 · 94% of their budget
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
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
3
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
4
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
7
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
8
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
9
The Breakthrough Institute

The Breakthrough Institute is a research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.

Environment
10
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
11
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
12
Free Press

Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mediators Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mighty Companions Inc. 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

152 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. 152 of the 200 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
146/152
Grantees still filing
91/152
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY INC: $47,525 · OtherTHE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE LAW AND P…ALL SEASONS CHALICE: $42,587 · OtherALL SEASONS CHALICESKINNER LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC: $35,000 · OtherSKINNER LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INCDRYLANDS AGROECOLOGY RESEARCH: $33,950 · OtherDRYLANDS AGROECOLOGY RESEARCHWILDCARE: $17,900 · Other+103 more: $241,965 · Other+103 moreUTAH FILM CENTER: $114,500 · Arts & CultureUTAH FILM CENTERSundance Institute: $91,900 · Arts & CultureSundance InstituteINTERFAZE EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTIONS INC: $33,500 · Arts & CultureINTERFAZE EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTIONS …CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC+25 more: $64,506 · Arts & Culture+25 moreMEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC: $103,050 · InternationalMEDIATORS FOU…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $8,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL…+12 more: $12,300 · International+12 moreThe Alliance For Collective Action: $17,000 · EnvironmentSOURCE OF SYNERGY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · EnvironmentNatural Capitalism Solutions Inc: $8,250 · EnvironmentNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUND: $5,000 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE: $4,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Environment+17 more: $16,850 · EnvironmentTIDES FOUNDATION: $24,000 · PhilanthropyRupert Spira Foundation: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $3,500 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyHORSE BOY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHERE WITH CARE: $5,850 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE BOULDER JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $1,800 · Human Services+3 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesEvangelicals for Democracy: $8,000 · EducationBRIDGE ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND: $4,250 · EducationCONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION: $4,000 · EducationCONTINA IMPACT: $3,950 · EducationWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $3,000 · EducationGOLDEN BRIDGE: $1,500 · EducationSTREET BUSINESS SCHOOL: $1,250 · Education+4 more: $1,950 · Education
Other$418,927Arts & Culture$324,406International$123,850Environment$82,600Philanthropy$40,500Human Services$38,150Education$27,900

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $114,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC: $103,050 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetSundance Institute: $91,900 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY INC: $47,525 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetSKINNER LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetINTERFAZE EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTIONS INC: $33,500 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetHORSE BOY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWILDCARE: $17,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Alliance For Collective Action: $17,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSOURCE OF SYNERGY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetSlow Money Institute Inc: $11,550 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT: $11,115 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRupert Spira Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 94% of budgetDENVER FILM SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Capitalism Solutions Inc: $8,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSALT LAKE CIVIL NETWORK INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetEvangelicals for Democracy: $8,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE: $6,806 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTAKE BACK OUR REPUBLIC INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE: $5,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION FILMS: $5,700 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetONE HUMANITY INSTITUTE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $5,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Common Ground: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND: $4,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONVERGENCE CENTER FOR POLICY RESOLUTION: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONTINA IMPACT: $3,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTARA INSTITUTE OF THE PERFORMING ARTS: $3,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION BOULDER COUNTY: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALOHA IN ACTION INC: $3,300 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCAPITAL & MAIN: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLonghopes Donkey Shelter Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Sundance Institute ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY INC ↗
  • Who funds SKINNER LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAZE EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds HORSE BOY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHICKEN & EGG FILMS INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDCARE ↗
  • Who funds The Alliance For Collective Action ↗
  • Who funds SOURCE OF SYNERGY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Slow Money Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO MEDIA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Rupert Spira Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DENVER FILM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Natural Capitalism Solutions Inc ↗
  • Who funds SALT LAKE CIVIL NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds Evangelicals for Democracy ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds TAKE BACK OUR REPUBLIC INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds THERE WITH CARE ↗
  • Who funds MISSION FILMS ↗
  • Who funds ONE HUMANITY INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR WHOLE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗

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.

ImpactassetsincCommunity Foundation …Rsf Social Finance IncThe Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…Rose Community Founda…PatagoniaorgThe William & Flora H…The Colorado Health F…The Ford FoundationInnovo Foundation
ImpactassetsincMD34.8× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Community Foundation Boulder County · Rsf Social Finance Inc · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Innovo 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 King Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steiner King Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • National Council for the Social Studies: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 200 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home