· Private foundation
The Arnold and Rhoda Steiger Charitable Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $500 |
| UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION | $500 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SO ARIZONA | $400 |
| CHABAD OF NEW CANAAN | $400 |
| JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $320 |
| WNYC NY PUBLIC RADIO | $200 |
| LAPHAM SENIOR CENTER | $200 |
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $200 |
| NEW CANAAN COMM FOUNDATION | $150 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO | $150 |
| NEW CANAAN LIBRARY | $100 |
| NEW CANAAN FIRE DEPT | $100 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION | $100 |
| THIRTEEN | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 29% of its 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
5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 19 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Arnold and Rhoda Steiger Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Arnold and Rhoda Steiger Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Curtain Call Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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