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The Steinhart Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Steinhart Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$408k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$87k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$835kRecreation & Sports$658kFood & Nutrition$410kHealth$349kCommunity Improvement$219kArts & Culture$168kPublic Safety & Disaster$134kHousing & Shelter$71kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $147k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $211k
$8,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEBRASKA CITY FIRE AND RESCUE$86,876
LOURDES CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL$67,686
CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY$56,000
DUNBAR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$30,324
CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY$30,000
CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY$19,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN$17,500
CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY$17,500
LOURDES CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL$13,000
NEBRASKA CITY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION$10,000
NEBRASKA CITY FOOD PANTRY$10,000
TANNER FOSS PROJECT$9,600
NEBRASKA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$8,000
TEAMMATES OF NEBRASKA CITY$5,000
RADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DUNBAR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $50k → 10%DUNBAR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $30k → 10%OTOE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL: $24k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $269k → 10%CHI St Mary's Hospital: $200k → 10%LOURDES CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $175k → 10%LOURDES CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $150k → 10%LOURDES CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $150k → 10%City of Nebraska City: $150k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $100k → 10%Lourdes Central Catholic School: $90k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN: $18k → 13%NEBRASKA CITY FIRE AND RESCUE: $87k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN: $15k → 13%Lourdes Central Catholic School: $75k → 10%LOURDES CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $68k → 10%NEBRASKA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $61k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $56k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $56k → 10%City of Nebraska City: $50k → 10%NEBRASKA CITY AREA ECONOMIC: $50k → 10%REGION V SERVICES: $50k → 10%HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF THE NEBRASKA CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $45k → 10%KEEP NEBRASKA CITY BEAUTIFUL: $40k → 10%LOURDES CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $38k → 10%NEBRASKA CITY TOURISM & COMMERCE: $35k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $34k → 10%Lourdes Central Catholic School: $33k → 10%NEBRASKA CITY RURAL FIRE PROTECTION: $32k → 10%NEBRASKA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL: $31k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $30k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $30k → 10%City of Nebraska City: $30k → 10%NEBRASKA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL: $28k → 10%Lourdes Central Catholic School: $27k → 10%LOURDES CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $25k → 10%Nebraska City Community Fdn: $22k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $20k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $19k → 10%NEBRASKA CITY TOURISM: $18k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $18k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $18k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $18k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $18k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $18k → 10%CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $15k → 10%St Mary's Hospital: $15k → 10%NEBRASKA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL: $15k → 10%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 36 repeat orgs$570k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
44

Total granted

$2.9M
$471k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+13%

Still filing today

25%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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
EducationPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • DV
    DUNBAR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    3× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +63% · 76% of their budget
  • NW
    NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +21%
  • HC
    HASTINGS COLLEGE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $25k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • NC
    NEBRASKA CITY AREA ECONOMIC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • RV
    REGION V SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • HP
    HISTORICAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF THE NEBRASKA CITY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
    one grant, 2024 · $45k
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
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
2
Union College

Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.

Education
3
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
4
University of Northwestern - St Paul

See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…

Education
5
St Ambrose University

Mission statement: an inclusive, catholic, and diocesan community of learners, st. ambrose university empowers all ambrosians to act courageously, to seek wisdom through faith and reason, to work for justice, and to lead lives of service.…

Education
6
Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing and Allied Health

Nebraska methodist college of nursing & allied health is a health professions institution providing education in healthcare related fields.

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7
Mcmurry University

Shaped by christian principles, mcmurry university challenges students to examine our complex world from multiple perspectives in preparation for lives of leadership, service and professional success.

Education
8
Augsburg University

Augsburg university educates students to be informed citizens, thoughtful stewards, critical thinkers, and responsible leaders.the augsburg experience is supported by an engaged community that is committed to intentional diversity in its…

Education
9
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
10
Nebraska Realtors Association

Unite realtor boards to be able to influence matters affecting real estate state wide, unify laws and regulations and promote education among members

—
11
Cornell College

Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…

Education
12
Briar Cliff University

Briar cliff university is a community committed to higher education within a liberal arts and catholic perspective. in the franciscan tradition of service, caring and openness to all, briar cliff emphasizes quality education for its…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midland University; the most unlike its peers is Dunbar Volunteer Fire Department. 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

16 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. 16 of the 87 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF NEBRASKA CITY: $1,008,664 · OtherCITY OF NEBRASKA CITYLOURDES CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $843,459 · OtherLOURDES CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOLCHI St Mary's Hospital: $214,000 · OtherCHI St Mary's HospitalNEBRASKA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL: $109,500 · Other+71 more: $1,069,249 · Other+71 moreNEBRASKA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $40,500 · EducationNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $32,500 · EducationHASTINGS COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationMIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · Education+3 more: $7,500 · EducationDUNBAR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $87,324 · Public Safety & DisasterNEBRASKA CITY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Arts & CultureRADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE INC: $10,000 · HealthOTOE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsOTOE COUNTY WILDLIFE CLUB: $5,000 · Environment
Other$3,244,872Education$110,500Public Safety & Disaster$87,324Arts & Culture$50,000Health$10,000Recreation & Sports$9,000Environment$5,000

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 budgetDUNBAR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $87,324 over 3y, 76% of budgetNEBRASKA CITY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetNEBRASKA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $40,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetNEBRASKA CITY TOURISM & COMMERCE INC: $36,500 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $35,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $32,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHASTINGS COLLEGE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOTOE COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY: $9,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOTOE COUNTY WILDLIFE CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT MARTY UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClarkson College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBellevue University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDLAND UNIVERSITY: $2,500 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 DUNBAR VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CITY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CITY TOURISM & COMMERCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HASTINGS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds RADIO TALKING BOOK SERVICE INC ↗

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.

Kropp Charitable Foun…Karl H and Wealtha H …Paul John Anton & Dor…James M Cox FoundationEnterprise Holdings F…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Kropp Charitable Foundation IncNE22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kropp Charitable Foundation Inc · Karl H and Wealtha H Nelson Family Foundation · Paul John Anton & Doris Wirth Foundation Inc · James M Cox Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Steinhart Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steinhart Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Steinhart Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Steinhart Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 87 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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