· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HEARTLAND FARM SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| WPGA JUNIOR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WISCONSIN CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| LIONS EYE BANK OF WI | $5,000 |
| OLBRICH BOTANICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| BIGHORN GOLF CLUB CHARITIES | $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 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 53 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 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 WISCONSIN YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Steinhauer Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steinhauer Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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