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The Steinberg Lalli Char Fndt

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$493k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$465k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$3.2MHealth$575kPublic Benefit$98kEducation$67kYouth Development$15kArts & Culture$11kHuman Services$8kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $28k
  • $250k+1 grant · $465k
$8,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING FUND$465,000
OTHECONTRIBUTIONS$9,527
UNIVERSITY OF PENN$8,000
HAMILTON COLLEGE$5,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$3,990
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CONTRIBUTIONS OF LESS THAN 1000: $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENN: $8k → 22%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $5k → 16%ISRAEL INTERNATIONAL LACROSSE GAMES: $2k → 17%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $4k → 7%ACTON BOXBORO UNITED WAY: $100k → 8%CONTRIBUTIONS OF LESS THAN 1000: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENN: $7k → 22%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $5k → 16%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $4k → 7%TOWN OF ACTON: $98k → 8%CONTRIBUTIONS OF LESS THAN 1000: $4k → 16%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $4k → 16%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $3k → 7%MIRACLE LEAGUE: $50k → 8%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $4k → 16%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $3k → 7%ACTON COMMUNITY HOUSING: $5k → 8%MASS GENERAL: $15k → 16%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $3k → 16%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $3k → 7%ACTON UNITED WAY: $5k → 8%OTHECONTRIBUTIONS: $12k → 16%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $3k → 16%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $2k → 7%ACTON COMMUNITY CHEST: $5k → 8%CONTRIBUTIONS OF 1500 OR LESS: $10k → 16%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $2k → 16%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $2k → 7%DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $3k → 8%OTHECONTRIBUTIONS: $10k → 16%HAGAR'S SISTERS: $3k → 8%CONTRIBUTIONS OF 1000 OR LESS: $9k → 16%PROJECT GRADUATION: $2k → 8%CONTRIBUTIONS OF 1000 OR LESS: $3k → 16%ACTON BOXBORO UNITED WAY: $2k → 8%HELLENIC SCHOOL LOWELL: $3k → 8%EMERSON HOSPITAL: $127k → 8%EMERSON HOSPITAL: $125k → 8%EMERSON HOSPITAL: $125k → 8%EMERSON HOSPITAL: $125k → 8%THINK GIVE: $10k → 8%EMERSON HOSPITAL: $3k → 8%THINK GIVE: $3k → 8%CONCORD ART ASSOCIATION: $2k → 8%EMERSON HOSPITAL: $2k → 8%CONCORD CARLISLE C CHEST: $2k → 8%CONCORD CARLISLE C CHEST: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 13 repeat orgs$211k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
21

Total granted

$3.9M
$211k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+100%

Still filing today

23%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • EH
    EMERSON HOSPITAL
    7× · 2017–2023 · $508k · revenue +65%
  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +94%
  • TI
    THINKGIVE INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $13k · revenue +955%

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF ACTON
    one grant, 2018 · $98k
  • ML
    MIRACLE LEAGUE
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL
    one grant, 2022 · $15k

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.

1
The President and Trustees of Colby College

to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
5
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
Wellesley College

To provide an excellent liberal arts education for women who will make a difference in the world.

Education
8
Reed Institute

The mission of Reed College is to provide education in the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
9
Barnard College

Barnard college aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research…

Education
10
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
11
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
12
Bennington College Corporation

The men and women who brought bennington college into being sought to create a college that would emphasize "the individual student and her developing interests," learning "by activity and living", a community life designed to "break down…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bowdoin College and the most unlike its peers is Hagar's Sisters Inc. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING FUND — $3,123,350 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING FUND+26 more — $389,339 · Other+26 moreEMERSON HOSPITAL — $508,000 · HealthEMERSON HOSPIT…Trustees of Hamilton College — $25,500 · EducationBowdoin College — $21,828 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationTHINKGIVE INC — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureCONCORD ART ASSOCIATION — $2,477 · Arts & CultureHAGAR'S SISTERS INC — $2,500 · Crime & LegalCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,512,689Health$508,000Education$48,328Youth Development$12,500Arts & Culture$4,977Crime & Legal$2,500Philanthropy$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEMERSON HOSPITAL — $508,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College — $25,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College — $21,828 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHINKGIVE INC — $12,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetHAGAR'S SISTERS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCONCORD ART ASSOCIATION — $2,477 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 EMERSON HOSPITAL
  • Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College
  • Who funds Bowdoin College
  • Who funds THINKGIVE INC
  • Who funds DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds HAGAR'S SISTERS INC
  • Who funds CONCORD ART ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organization The Steinberg Lalli Char Fndt 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Brandeis University9% of income from government
  • Discovery Museum Inc3% of income from government
  • Emerson Hospital3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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