California · Private foundation
The Steele 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.
- $290k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2024
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 87
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $741k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations The Steele Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 40 | $290k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $324k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 69 | $366k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 69 | $337k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 78 | $369k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 78 | $325k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 85 | $309k | 31% |
| FY2017 | 87 | $302k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marymount University | $115,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc | $61,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Bhutan Foundation | $55,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Earth Sangha | $50,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Food & Friends Inc | $42,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Heal the Ocean Inc | $40,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara Inc | $40,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Worldwomenwork | $37,500 | 5 | 4% |
| Dumbarton Arts and Education Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Arlington Free Clinic Inc | $35,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 112 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 65 recipients with no EIN on record ($830k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Steele 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Santa Barbara Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation
How this is measured
About The Steele Family Foundation
- How much does The Steele Family Foundation give?
- The Steele Family Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $290,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 87 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Steele Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (15%), Education (12%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are The Steele Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Marymount University ($115k), Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc ($61k), The Bhutan Foundation ($55k).
- Does The Steele Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Steele 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 Steele Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation.
- Where is The Steele Family Foundation based?
- The Steele Family Foundation is based in CA.
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