New York · Private foundation
The Robert K Steel Family 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.
- $355k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 36
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $952k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations The Robert K Steel Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% 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 | 4 | $355k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $1.6M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $4.6M | 67% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $3.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $3,000,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Rockefeller University | $1,075,000 | 3 | 0% |
| New York Botanical Garden | $475,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Trade Center Performing Arts Center Inc | $450,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Duke University | $379,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Shed NYC Inc | $350,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $315,000 | 3 | 0% |
| New York Historical Society | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greenwich Academy Inc | $187,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $130,000 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Robert K Steel Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Schwartz Family Foundation · Royce Family Fund Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Hillman Family Foundations · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Robert K Steel Family Foundation
- How much does The Robert K Steel Family Foundation give?
- The Robert K Steel Family Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $355,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Robert K Steel Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Education (16%), Health (10%).
- Who are The Robert K Steel Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc ($3.0M), The Rockefeller University ($1.1M), New York Botanical Garden ($475k).
- Does The Robert K Steel Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Robert K Steel Family 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 The Robert K Steel Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The New York Community Trust, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is The Robert K Steel Family Foundation based?
- The Robert K Steel Family Foundation is based in NY.
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