California · 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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $175,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $21M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Steinmetz Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 31 | $1.4M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $1.2M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $2.5M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $1.8M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $2.3M | 22% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $1.2M | 71% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $280k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Barbara Botanic Garden | $740,000 | 7 | 11% |
| Ocean Institute | $730,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Cooperative for Education | $350,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Archaeological Institute of America | $350,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Growinggreat | $225,000 | 6 | 12% |
| Santa Barbara Audubon Society | $210,000 | 6 | 31% |
| Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery | $205,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Autry Museum of the American West | $200,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Natural History Museum Santa Maria California | $195,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Santa Barbara Maritime Museum | $185,000 | 7 | 3% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Steinmetz Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Steinmetz Foundation
- How much does Steinmetz Foundation give?
- Steinmetz Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $1,497,600 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Steinmetz Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Environment (19%), Education (13%).
- Who are Steinmetz Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Santa Barbara Botanic Garden ($740k), Ocean Institute ($730k), Cooperative for Education ($350k).
- Does Steinmetz Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Steinmetz 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 Steinmetz Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
- Where is Steinmetz Foundation based?
- Steinmetz Foundation is based in CA.
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