· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $347k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $223k
- $250k+1 grant · $272k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $271,825 |
| WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART | $58,475 |
| VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM | $58,125 |
| WESTERN GALLERY WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $56,175 |
| FRANCES LEHMAN LOEB ART CENTER AT VASSAR COLLEGE | $50,125 |
| GRUNWALD CENTER COLLECTION HAMMER MUSEUM | $49,875 |
| ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $40,875 |
| TELFAIR MUSEUMS | $35,275 |
| CRYSTAL BRIDGES MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $27,250 |
| MINT MUSEUM | $25,050 |
| CANTON MUSEUM OF ART | $24,200 |
| SPENCER MUSEUM OF ART | $21,625 |
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $18,925 |
| GREY ART MUSEUM | $18,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $14,300 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 80% of grant dollars ($21M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 20% that went abroad ($5.2M) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 20% of all-years giving ($5.2M)
6 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $812k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TPThe Pierpont Morgan Library3× · 2018–2024 · $863k · revenue +27%
- BRBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2020–2021 · $354k · revenue +21%
- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO3× · 2023–2025 · $327k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2.4M
- TPTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.3M · revenue +264% · 31% of their budget
- OSOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $867k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The arnot art museum is an exhibiting and collecting fine arts museum, accredited by the american association of museums. the museum exhibits its permanent collection of 17th-19th century european paintings and sculpture; 19th century…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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).
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
The metropolitan museum of art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…
Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.
The westmoreland museum of american art offers a place to share compelling and meaningful cultural experiences that open the door to new ideas, perspectives, and possibilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is Smithsonian Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 78 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 91 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds The Pierpont Morgan Library ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE ART MUSEUM ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Saul Steinberg Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Washington County Museum of Fine Arts — 2% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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