· Private foundation
The Steiner 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| WASHIGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| PACIFIC NORTHWEST TRAIL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $5,000 |
| WASHIGTON STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| OMAK PAC FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| TEAM OKANOGAN ANIMAL RESCUE | $4,000 |
| ANIMAL FOSTER CARE CAT SHELTER | $1,500 |
| OKANOGAN REGIONAL HUMANE | $1,000 |
| OKANOGAN COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSN | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 15% of The Steiner Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 81%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +7%
- WTWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION6× · 2018–2023 · $16k · revenue +135%
- PNPACIFIC NORTHWEST TRAIL ASSOCIATION4× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- WWWALLA WALLA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +7%
- GFGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +11%
- MTMONTANA TECH UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
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.
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences educates and trains health care professionals emphasizing service among rural and medically under-served communities throughout the Northwest.
Through its values, the northwest conference unites its member colleges and universities in the pacific northwest to empower student-athletes in their pursuit of academic and athletic excellence at the division iii level.
Wgu's mission is to change lives for the better by creating pathways to opportunity. wgu does this by operating and administering an institution of higher education and learning.
The mission of the Foundation is to promote, accept, and maximize private support for programs, initiatives, and properties of Washington State University and its regional campuses. The Foundation also prudently manages, invests, and…
University of puget sound, as a community of learning, maintains a strong commitment to teaching excellence, scholarly engagement, and fruitful student-faculty interaction. the mission of the university is to develop in its students'…
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.
In partnership with cwu and our donors, our mission is to transform the lives of current and future generations of students by developing and stewarding resources that provide access, opportunity, and hope.
Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
To support the educational and charitable purposes of western governors university by engaging in fund-raising activities, including identifying opportunities for funded research projects, building alumni outreach, soliciting support from…
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
Seattle pacific university is a christian university fully committed to engaging the culture and changing the world by graduating people of competence and character, becoming people of wisdom, and modeling grace-filled community.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NCW ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST TRAIL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Okanogan Regional Humane ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WALLA WALLA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WENATCHEE VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Team Okanogan Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds Pacific Lutheran University ↗
- Who funds OKANOGAN COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Ncw · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Steiner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steiner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- George Fox University: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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