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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 FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$272k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $347k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $223k
  • $250k+1 grant · $272k
$21,625
Median grant
18
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $575k → 12%MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ART: $186k → 11%FRANCES YOUNG TANG TEACHING MUSEUM & ART GALLERY SKIDMORE COLLEGE: $245k → 7%GUILD HALL: $211k → 7%MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM: $741k → 17%BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART: $411k → 10%NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $199k → 14%MENIL DRAWING INSTITUTE: $223k → 16%OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $867k → 19%ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $334k → 17%NORTON MUSEUM OF ART: $564k → 11%STANLEY MUSEUM OF ART: $139k → 15%NELSON ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART: $430k → 15%SAINT LOUIS ART MUSEUM: $119k → 21%ACKLAND ART MUSEUM: $138k → 13%RISD MUSEUM: $359k → 14%HIGH MUSEUM OF ART: $341k → 13%SCAD MUSEUM OF ART: $213k → 16%ESKENAZI MUSEUM: $1.6M → 18%ALLEN MEMORIAL ART MUSEUM: $172k → 13%COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART: $168k → 15%CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM: $214k → 16%SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: $165k → 9%ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $270k → 14%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM: $387k → 11%MILAN BIBLIOTECA BRAIDENSE: $2.4M → 6%VIRGINIA MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $242k → 22%ACHENBACH FOUNDATION FOR GRAPHIC ARTS: $340k → 13%NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $717k → 23%NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART: $322k → 11%CURRIER MUSEUM OF ART: $134k → 7%SPEED ART MUSEUM: $121k → 15%BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM: $358k → 7%COLBY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART: $163k → 12%HARVARD ART MUSEUMS: $152k → 8%CENTRE POMPIDOU: $1.4M → 14%PARRISH ART MUSEUM: $1.3M → 7%DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART: $141k → 14%NATIONAL GALLARY OF ART & SCULPTURE GARDEN: $1.3M → 14%BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $265k → 11%ESKENAZI MUSEUM: $127k → 18%HENRY ART GALLERY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SEATTLE WASHINGTON: $237k → 9%TRIENNALE MILANO: $270k → 6%ACHENBACH FOUNDATION FOR GRAPHIC ARTS: $224k → 13%NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY: $809k → 17%SMART MUSEUM OF ART: $291k → 14%THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $720k → 17%COOPER HEWITT SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM: $382k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 20% of all-years giving ($5.2M)

6 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Italy$2.8M · 4 grants
France$1.6M · 1 grant
Japan$313k · 1 grant
Austria$272k · 1 grant
Spain$109k · 1 grant
United Kingdom$58k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.3M · 11 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
56

Total granted

$9.3M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+28%

Still filing today

36%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $812k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TP
    The Pierpont Morgan Library
    3× · 2018–2024 · $863k · revenue +27%
  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    3× · 2023–2025 · $327k · revenue +29%
  • CM
    CINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2019–2022 · $283k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $2.4M
  • TP
    THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.3M · revenue +264% · 31% of their budget
  • OS
    OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $867k
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
Museum of Modern Art

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)

Arts & Culture
2
Art Explorium
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3
Arnot Art Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
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
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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,…

Arts & Culture
7
Museum of Collections
Arts & Culture
8
Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

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.

Arts & Culture
10
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

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,…

Arts & Culture
11
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
12
Westmoreland Museum of American Art

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 91 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
23/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRE POMPIDOU: $3,015,500 · OtherCENTRE POMPIDOUIndividual grant recipient: $2,350,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientESKENAZI MUSEUM: $1,773,500 · OtherESKENAZI MUSEUMNATIONAL GALLARY OF ART & SCULPTURE GARDEN: $1,390,100 · OtherNATIONAL GALLARY OF ART & SCULPTURE GARDENOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY: $866,500 · Other+49 more: $8,174,700 · Other+49 moreTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $1,255,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INCTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $720,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUMNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $717,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ARTNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $564,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INCSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $382,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $354,000 · Arts & CultureBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ARTROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $340,500 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of Art: $321,500 · Arts & CultureCINCINNATI MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $282,500 · Arts & Culture+23 more: $1,675,550 · Arts & Culture+23 moreThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $863,000 · EducationThe Pierp…The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $809,300 · EducationThe New Y…THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO: $326,875 · EducationTHE ART I…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $152,400 · EducationPresident…+1 more: $67,500 · Education
Other$17,570,300Arts & Culture$6,612,550Education$2,219,075

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 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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $152,400 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Fou…Terra Foundation for …The Henry Luce Founda…Helen Frankenthaler F…The Ayco Charitable F…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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How do I get to The Saul Steinberg Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Saul Steinberg Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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