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The Steinberg Lalli Char Fndt at a glance

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The Steinberg Lalli Char Fndt

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$425k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$375k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0185% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.2MHealth$575kPublic Benefit$98kEducation$67kYouth Development$15kArts & Culture$11kHuman Services$8kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
  • $250k+1 grant · $375k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING FUND$375,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENN$16,500
OTHECONTRIBUTIONS$10,300
ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY$10,000
HAMILTON COLLEGE$6,000
LAHEY CLINIC$5,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$1,692
Individual grant recipient$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CONTRIBUTIONS OF LESS THAN 1000: $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENN: $17k → 22%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $6k → 16%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $4k → 7%ACTON BOXBORO UNITED WAY: $100k → 8%ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%CONTRIBUTIONS OF LESS THAN 1000: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENN: $8k → 22%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $5k → 16%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $4k → 7%TOWN OF ACTON: $98k → 8%CONTRIBUTIONS OF LESS THAN 1000: $4k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENN: $7k → 22%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $5k → 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: $4k → 16%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $3k → 7%ACTON COMMUNITY CHEST: $5k → 8%OTHECONTRIBUTIONS: $12k → 16%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $3k → 16%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $2k → 7%ACTON UNITED WAY: $5k → 8%OTHECONTRIBUTIONS: $10k → 16%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $3k → 16%HAGAR'S SISTERS: $3k → 8%CONTRIBUTIONS OF 1500 OR LESS: $10k → 16%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $2k → 16%DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $3k → 8%OTHECONTRIBUTIONS: $10k → 16%PROJECT GRADUATION: $2k → 8%CONTRIBUTIONS OF 1000 OR LESS: $9k → 16%ACTON BOXBORO UNITED WAY: $2k → 8%CONTRIBUTIONS OF 1000 OR LESS: $3k → 16%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%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
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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 13 repeat orgs$226k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
21

Total granted

$4.3M
$211k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+100%

Still filing today

23%
19%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
HealthEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • EH
    EMERSON HOSPITAL
    7× · 2017–2023 · $508k · revenue +76%
  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · 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
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
Boston Architectural College

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

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2
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
3
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
4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
5
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
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
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and 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
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Assumption University; the most unlike its peers is Thinkgive 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

11 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. 11 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $3,498,350 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING FUND+26 more: $417,139 · Other+26 moreEMERSON HOSPITAL: $508,000 · HealthEMERSON HOSP…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthTrustees of Hamilton College: $31,500 · EducationBowdoin College: $23,520 · EducationASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · 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$3,915,489Health$513,000Education$66,020Youth Development$12,500Arts & Culture$4,977Crime & Legal$2,500Philanthropy$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEMERSON HOSPITAL: $508,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $31,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $23,520 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHINKGIVE INC: $12,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAHEY CLINIC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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 EMERSON HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
  • Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds THINKGIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds LAHEY CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds HAGAR'S SISTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds CONCORD ART ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Steinberg Lalli Char Fndt funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steinberg Lalli Char Fndt. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Discovery Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Emerson Hospital: 3% 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, 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.

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 38 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home