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Steinhauer Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST TEE OF SOUTH CENTRAL WI | $35,000 |
| UW FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHARD LUTHERN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $7,500 |
| WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| HEARTLAND FARM SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| LIONS EYE BANK OF WI | $5,000 |
| OLBRICH BOTANICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| BIGHORN GOLF CLUB CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| WPGA JUNIOR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MADISON AREA FOOD PANTRY GARDENS IN | $3,000 |
| ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES | $2,500 |
| EDGEWOOD HIGHSCHOOL | $2,500 |
| NEWPORT WILDERNESS SOCIETY | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
39 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- WCWISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +24%
- MSMADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2017–2021 · $115k · revenue +41%
- CICHAMPIONS4KIDS INC6× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- MYMADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue ×14
- GMGROWING MINDS INCone grant, 2018 · $17k · revenue -100%
- UWUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
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.
Make downtown madison an economically strong, equitable, inclusive, and vibrant place to live, work, and visit.
Madison community foundation will engage greater madison in philanthropy to advance a more vibrant and equitable community.
We conduct impartial public policy research and analysis to drive informed debate and effective decision-making in the state of wisconsin.
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)
Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.
Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.
The mission of the uwm foundation, inc. is to support the educational, literary, and scientific endeavors of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee by receiving, managing, and distributing gifts to benefit the university's students,…
Renew wisconsin leads and accelerates the transformation to wisconsin's renewable energy future through advocacy, education, and collaboration.
The madison waldorf school is an independent day school located in madison wisconsin, and a developing member of the association of waldorf schools of north america.
To cultivate civil discourse, increase understanding, and create common ground by connecting wisconsin people and ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Youth Choirs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Growing Minds Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 53 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 WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPIONS4KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Ed Nebbins Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OLBRICH BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds Agrace HospiceCare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERA COURT NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DANE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MADISON YOUTH ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON YOUTH CHOIRS INC ↗
- Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIGHORN GOLF CLUB CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WPGA JUNIOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE COMMUNITY MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEHEMIAH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Madison Area Food Pantry Gardens ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB MADISON WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEWPORT WILDERNESS SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Madison Community Foundation · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Evjue Foundation Inc · John J Frautschi Family Foundation Inc · Pleasant T Rowland Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Terry Family Foundation Inc · Lau & Bea Christensen Charitable Foundat
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 Steinhauer Charitable 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.
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