· Private foundation
Steinmetz 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $175,000 |
| AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS | $155,000 |
| COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION | $100,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN | $75,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| LA ARBORETUM FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ST LAWRENCE BRINDISI | $50,000 |
| OCEAN INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| GROWING GREAT | $50,000 |
| AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST | $50,000 |
| PARA LOS NINOS | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $200k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
42 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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
- SBSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN7× · 2018–2024 · $740k · revenue +195%
- CFCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION6× · 2019–2024 · $350k · revenue +3%
- GGROWINGGREAT6× · 2019–2024 · $225k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- UFUCSB FOUNDATION - NORTH SHORE PRESERVEone grant, 2022 · $500k
- LSLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POORone grant, 2019 · $100k
- PMPUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +36%
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.
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Conserving nature through science and discovery.
See schedule othe mission of occidental college is to provide a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality - one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex,…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…
Smvdm is a california public benefit corporation whose mission is to foster family and youth inspired learining by creating experiences to explore ourselves, our valley, our world, and beyond. smvdm serves schools, families, and youth…
Vistamar school empowers students, preparing them to contribute and excel in higher education and in life, and commits to: a broad and balanced program that challenges and engages students, building their individual skills and inspiring a…
Inspire brave learners to shape the future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Para Los Ninos and the most unlike its peers is Urban Txt Teens Exploring Technology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% 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 16% 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.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 62 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 SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN ↗
- Who funds OCEAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GROWINGGREAT ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
- Who funds AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST ↗
- Who funds THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM SANTA MARIA CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CAMP MARIASTELLA INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds PARA LOS NINOS ↗
- Who funds FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds LINEAGE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds DIY GIRLS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC THERAPY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
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: California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Kenneth T and Eileen L Norris Foundation · Stern Sidney Memorial Tuw · The Annenberg Foundation · Goldhirsh Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The J Paul Getty Trust · Angels Baseball Foundation Inc
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 Steinmetz 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.
- Archaeological Institute of America — 1% of income from government
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.