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The David R Steinhardt Foundation at a glance

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The David R Steinhardt 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.

$69k
Granted FY2018
12
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

59% of The David R Steinhardt Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Fjc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The David R Steinhardt Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $69k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

10
’18
9
’19
1
’20

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Philanthropy$217kEducation$59kArts & Culture$58kReligion$29kCivil Rights$5kEnvironment$4kInternational$3kHealth$500Other$0
02FY2018 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k9 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$70k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DALTON SCHOOLS$31,250
TEMPLE ISRAEL$10,000
92ND STREET Y NURSERY SCHOOL$10,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION$5,000
THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE$2,500
HEBREW PUBLIC$2,500
THE DRAWING CENTER$2,500
BEIT RABBAN DAY SCHOOL$1,800
DREAMSTREET THEATRE COMPANY$1,000
INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER OF NEW YORK$1,000
Individual grant recipient$500
MUSICIANS AID SOCIETY OF NEW YORK$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%JEWISH HERITAGE PROGRAMS: $500 → 22%FJC A FOUNDATION OF PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS: $167k → 17%DREAMSTREET THEATRE COMPANY: $3k → 20%THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE: $3k → 14%SHARSHERET: $500 → 7%FJC A FOUNDATION OF PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS: $50k → 17%DREAMSTREET THEATRE COMPANY: $1k → 20%HEBREW PUBLIC: $3k → 17%CONGREGATION MOUNT SINAI: $500 → 20%HEBREW PUBLIC: $3k → 17%BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN: $4k → 20%MUSICIANS AID SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $500 → 17%TEMPLE ISRAEL: $10k → 17%TEMPLE ISRAEL: $10k → 17%TEMPLE ISRAEL: $4k → 17%NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN: $3k → 17%INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER OF NEW YORK: $1k → 17%THE SHEFA SCHOOL: $3k → 17%THE DALTON SCHOOLS: $31k → 17%92ND STREET Y NURSERY SCHOOL: $10k → 17%92ND STREET Y NURSERY SCHOOL: $10k → 17%THE DALTON SCHOOLS INC: $1k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS-ISRAEL MUSEUM: $25k → 17%BEIT RABBAN DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 17%THE DRAWING CENTER: $3k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS-ISRAEL MUSEUM: $25k → 17%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$134k · 6 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2018, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$134k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+53%

Still filing today

50%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20
EducationArts & CultureReligionEnvironmentHealthCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DS
    DALTON SCHOOLS INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $32k · revenue +23%
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $20k · revenue +40%
  • DT
    DREAMSTREET THEATRE COMPANY INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $4k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +110%
  • BB
    BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +53%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGNgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +44%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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4
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
5
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
6
Luria Academy of Brooklyn

Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…

Education
7
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
8
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
10
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
11
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
12
New York Academy of Art

The new york academy of art is a unique graduate school that combines intensive technical training in the fine arts with active critical discourse. we believe that rigorously trained artists are best able to realize their artistic vision.…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shefa School; the most unlike its peers is The Musicians Aid Society of New York Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FJC: $217,000 · Crime & LegalFJCAMERICAN FRIENDS-ISRAEL MUSEUM: $50,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS-ISRAEL …TEMPLE ISRAEL INC: $23,600 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL INCHEBREW PUBLIC: $5,000 · OtherHEBREW PUBLIC+3 more: $3,500 · OtherDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $32,250 · EducationDALTON SCHO…NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN: $2,500 · EducationNEW YORK SC…SHEFA SCHOOL: $2,500 · EducationSHEFA SCHOO…BEIT RABBAN DAY SCHOOL: $1,800 · EducationTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Religion+1 more: $500 · ReligionDREAMSTREET THEATRE COMPANY INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureTHE DRAWING CENTER INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MUSICIANS AID SOCIETY OF NEW YORK INC: $500 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $3,750 · Environment
Crime & Legal$217,000Other$82,100Education$39,050Religion$20,500Arts & Culture$7,500Civil Rights$5,000Environment$3,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFJC: $217,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $32,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEFA SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Heritage Programs: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The David R Steinhardt Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David R Steinhardt Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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