How much did THE STEEL PARTNERS FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of THE STEEL PARTNERS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

socialmedicalyoutheducation

2021

medicalyoutheducation

2022

youth

2023

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2024

—

2025

jewish

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $12k
$10k–50k2 grants · $30k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k

$11,500

Median grant

States reached

$129

Total assets

Largest grants

ASPEN VALLEY AND SKIBOARD CLUB$60,000
MACABI USA$18,000
NANCY LIEBERMAN CHARITIES$11,500
WORTHY OF LOVE$5,000
THE BRENT SHAPIRO FOUNDATION$5,000
ASPEN JUNIOR HOCKEY$1,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$416k · 8 repeat orgs$723k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$416k

$640k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+53%

Still filing today

63%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CulturePublic BenefitCrime & LegalOther

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

HF
HILARITY FOR CHARITY
2× · 2020–2021 · $27k · revenue +1190%
WO
WORTHY OF LOVE
3× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +80%
NL
NANCY LIEBERMAN CHARITIES
2× · 2020–2025 · $13k · revenue +43%

Funded once

TU
TULANE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2020 · $196k
MW
MARK WAHLBERG YOUTH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +40%
FL
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -30%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

JEWISHColorado

We convene, connect, invest, and protect jewish life in colorado, israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy

The Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation

The los angeles dodgers foundation is the official team charity of the los angeles dodgers.

Recreation & Sports

Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

Hillel of Colorado is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that proudly serves students at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, and the University of Denver. Hillel enriches the lives of students during their college years and beyond,…

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Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Promote a culture of philanthropy, leverage resources to meet local and global jewish needs and facilitate community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

The Helen Diller Family Foundation

Supports charitable, educational, & religious purposes of jewish comm federation of sf.

Philanthropy

Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy

Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

The foundation is the largest manager of charitable assets and leader in planned giving solutions for greater los angeles jewish philanthropists through its various programs.

Philanthropy

The Helene & Louis Galen Family Foundation

Giving supports the jewish community and programs that have an emphasis on health & medical research, education & children, arts & culture, social services and jewish causes.

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Feldman Family Foundation

Philanthropy

Feldman Family Foundation

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Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

Academy offering a complete judaic & secular educational program from pre-k through high school.

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Aspen Sports Medicine Foundation

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hilarity for Charity Inc and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/13

Grantees still filing

11/13

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$724,600Human Services$121,000Crime & Legal$100,000Philanthropy$100,000Health$38,200Education$33,000Public Benefit$22,000

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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation THE STEEL PARTNERS 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +53% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 841198907 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 33% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Steel Partners Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Steel Partners Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE STEEL PARTNERS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Steel Partners Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE STEEL PARTNERS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Steel Partners Foundation?

More from the funding graph