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The Saul Steinberg Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$853k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
71%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$21,625
Largest grant, FY2025
$271,825
Organizations funded a year
2 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
18
Total assets, FY2025
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 71% of the organizations The Saul Steinberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$853k96%
FY202417$1.7M71%
FY202322$3.6M91%
FY202214$7.5M71%
FY20219$3.0M89%
FY202010$5.1M100%
FY20194$1.1M100%
FY20182$809k50%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$26MEducation$809k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
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NY
MA
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OH
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NJ
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TN
NC
DC
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 38 grantees
All grantees of The Saul Steinberg Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Parrish Art Museum Inc$1,255,500131%
The Pierpont Morgan Library$863,00032%
The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations$809,30010%
The Jewish Museum$720,00013%
New Orleans Museum of Art$717,00016%
Norton Museum of Art Inc$564,00012%
Smithsonian Institution$382,00010%
Boca Raton Museum of Art$354,00024%
Robert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc$340,50010%
The Art Institute of Chicago$326,87530%
National Gallery of Art$321,50010%
Cincinnati Museum Association$282,50021%
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts$241,7001n/a
The Nasher Sculpture Center$198,50011%
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts$186,00010%
Columbus Museum of Art$167,50011%
Seattle Art Museum$164,50011%
Dallas Museum of Art$140,60011%
Speed Art Museum$120,50011%
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Inc$113,80011%
The Phillips Collection$103,00011%
Worcester Art Museum$90,00010%
Lyman Allyn Art Museum Inc$74,5001n/a
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts$67,50010%
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art$58,47511%
Provincetown Art Association and Museum Inc$55,00013%
The Dayton Art Institute$53,50011%
Amon Carter Museum of Western Art$51,00010%
Telfair Museum of Art Inc$35,2751n/a
Crystal Bridges-Museum of American Art Inc$27,2501n/a
Mint Museum of Art Inc$25,05010%
Canton Museum of Art$24,20011%
Portland Art Museum$18,92510%
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts$14,30010%
Asheville Art Museum Association Inc$11,67510%
Portland Museum of Art$10,00010%
Huntington Museum of Art Inc$5,87510%
Hunter Museum of American Art$62510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Saul Steinberg Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Parrish Art Museum Inc: $1,255,500 over 1y, 31% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $863,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $809,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Jewish Museum: $720,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetNew Orleans Museum of Art: $717,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetNorton Museum of Art Inc: $564,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $382,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Museum of Art: $354,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetRobert W Woodruff Arts Center Inc: $340,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $326,875 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $321,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Museum Association: $282,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Nasher Sculpture Center: $198,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMinneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts: $186,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetColumbus Museum of Art: $167,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSeattle Art Museum: $164,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDallas Museum of Art: $140,600 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSpeed Art Museum: $120,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNational Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Inc: $113,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Phillips Collection: $103,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWorcester Art Museum: $90,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: $67,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: $58,475 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetProvincetown Art Association and Museum Inc: $55,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetThe Dayton Art Institute: $53,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAmon Carter Museum of Western Art: $51,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMint Museum of Art Inc: $25,050 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCanton Museum of Art: $24,200 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPortland Art Museum: $18,925 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashington County Museum of Fine Arts: $14,300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAsheville Art Museum Association Inc: $11,675 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPortland Museum of Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHuntington Museum of Art Inc: $5,875 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHunter Museum of American Art: $625 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Ibm International FoundationNY18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ibm International Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · The Henry Luce Foundation Inc · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase 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.

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About The Saul Steinberg Foundation

How much does The Saul Steinberg Foundation give?
The Saul Steinberg Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $853,275 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Saul Steinberg Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (97%), Education (3%).
Who are The Saul Steinberg Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Parrish Art Museum Inc ($1.3M), The Pierpont Morgan Library ($863k), The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ($809k).
Does The Saul Steinberg Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Saul Steinberg 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 Saul Steinberg Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ibm International Foundation, Terra Foundation for American Art, The Henry Luce Foundation Inc.
Where is The Saul Steinberg Foundation based?
The Saul Steinberg Foundation is based in NY.

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 91 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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