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The Steinman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
96
Grants FY2024
89
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,000,000
Organizations funded a year
68 to 89
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$111M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations The Steinman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving95$9.8M37%
FY202389$8.1M44%
FY202276$2.7M33%
FY202182$4.1M43%
FY202081$3.1M46%
FY201968$3.0M38%
FY201873$3.7M47%
FY201770$4.1Mn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Public Benefit$12MEducation$6.3MPhilanthropy$5.6MHousing & Shelter$4.1MEnvironment$2.8MCommunity Improvement$1.9MYouth Development$1.9MArts & Culture$1.7MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
SD
OH
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
KS
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 121 grantees
All grantees of The Steinman Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lancaster Farmland Trust$1,779,456715%
Boys & Girls Club of Lancaster Inc$1,479,386812%
Little Conestoga Creek Foundation$1,040,000253%
United Way of Lancaster County$884,94685%
Franklin & Marshall College$855,83330%
Lancaster City Alliance$780,000813%
Elizabethtown College$768,00060%
Housing Development Corporation Midatlantic$750,00015%
Lancasterhistoryorg$505,00036%
Water Science Institute$470,000686%
Touchstone Foundation$437,198326%
Lancaster Science Center$403,02588%
La Academiathe Partnership Charter School$381,65035%
Lancaster Country Day School$369,08080%
Central Market Trust$310,000230%
Lancaster Day Care Center$300,00037%
Community First Fund$300,00041%
Tenfold Community Lending$250,00027%
Lancaster County Conservancy$250,00022%
New Tech Network Inc$207,26531%
Lancaster General Hospital$200,00010%
Music for Everyone$200,000711%
Bright Side Opportunities Corporati$183,215615%
Susan P Byrnes Health Education Center Inc$175,00082%
Tenfold$170,00042%
The Conservation Foundation$160,00022%
Thaddeus Stevens Foundation$160,00045%
Lancaster Redevelopment Fund$125,000595%
Chi St Joseph Children's Health$113,25051%
Mental Health America of Lancaster County$110,400410%
The Lancaster Lgbtq Center$107,000314%
The Bell Foundation Inc$105,09020%
Lancaster Area Habitat for Humanity Inc$100,00022%
Lancaster General Health Foundation$100,00013%
American Secondary Schools for International Students and Teachers Inc$92,00070%
Girls on the Run of Lancaster$90,00073%
Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic$78,75013%
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank$75,00010%
The Film Collaborative Inc$75,00011%
All Star Code Inc$75,00012%
Lancaster Health Center$70,00020%
Leadership Lancaster Inc$68,95058%
Patients R Waiting Inc$65,000111%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$63,50050%
Manheim Central School District$60,1602n/a
Lancaster Public Library$60,00021%
Good Samaritan Services$60,00031%
Latin American Alliance$55,000528%
Aaron's Acres$52,45933%
Ephrata Area Education Foundation$50,989223%
Bench Mark Program$50,80923%
Samaritan Center$50,00031%
Real Life Community Services$45,00023%
The Foundation of the Lancaster Chamber$39,00027%
School District of Lancaster$38,7035n/a
Communities in Schools of Pennsylvania$38,00013%
Luthercare$30,00010%
Sparks Foundation Inc$30,00033%
Ephrata Public Library$30,00022%
The Clinic for Special Children Inc$25,00010%
Federal City Council$25,00011%
Spanish American Civic Association for Equality Inc$25,00010%
Schreiber Center for Pediatric Development$25,00010%
Young Men's Christian Association of Lancaster County$25,00010%
Lancaster Recreation Commission$25,0001n/a
The Factory Ministries$25,00011%
The Common Wheel$20,00023%
Library System of Lancaster County$20,00011%
Martin Luther King Jr Memorial Scholarship Committee$20,00038%
The Edible Classroom$20,00029%
Advantage Lancaster$20,00018%
Advoz$20,00023%
Eastern Mennonite University$20,00010%
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press$20,00020%
Girl Scouts in the Heart of Pa$20,00010%
United Disabilities Services$20,00020%
Lets Go 123$18,000110%
Lancaster Emergency Medical Services Association$15,00010%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Capital Region$15,00011%
Milagro House Inc$15,00011%
Visioncorps$15,00010%
Plant the Seed of Learning Inc$15,0001n/a
Hempfield Foundation$12,00017%
Conestoga Valley School District$11,5002n/a
Team Pennsylvania Foundation$11,00050%
Mantec Inc$10,25010%
Prima Arts Inc$10,00012%
Solanco Neighborhood Ministries$10,0001n/a
Workforce Live$10,00015%
United Churches Elizabethtown Area$10,00013%
National 4-H Council$10,00010%
Mr Mitchell for Mathematics$10,0001n/a
Lighthouse Vocational Services$10,00010%
Lancaster Creative Factory$10,00014%
Delaware Valley University$10,00010%
Samueli Academy$10,00030%
Bridge of Hope Inc$10,00012%
Warrior-Scholar Project Foundation$10,00010%
Lancaster County Food Hub$10,00011%
Cobys Family Services$10,00010%
Hope Within Ministries Inc$10,00012%
Lancaster Pride Association$10,00014%
Columbia Borough School District$9,3883n/a
Servant Stage Company$8,5001n/a
Lancaster's Economic Action for Downtown's Success$7,97636%
YMCA of the Roses$7,50010%
Lititz Community Center Inc$6,80010%
The Janus School$6,00010%
Lancaster Downtowners$5,33617%
Pennsylvania State University$5,0001n/a
Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen$5,00011%
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf$5,00010%
Pequea Valley School District$5,0001n/a
Conestoga Valley Education Foundation$5,0001n/a
Demuth Foundation$5,00011%
Shalom Partnership of Lancasterinc$5,000120%
Media Impact Funders Inc$5,00010%
Mom's House Inc of Lancaster$5,00011%
Emerald Foundation$5,00012%
Arbor Place Inc$2,00010%
Lampeter-Strasburg School District$1,3881n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 180 recipients with no EIN on record ($22M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Steinman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 108 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLancaster Farmland Trust: $1,779,456 over 7y, 15% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lancaster Inc: $1,479,386 over 8y, 12% of budgetLittle Conestoga Creek Foundation: $1,040,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetUnited Way of Lancaster County: $884,946 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetFranklin & Marshall College: $855,833 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLancaster City Alliance: $780,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetElizabethtown College: $768,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHousing Development Corporation Midatlantic: $750,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetLancasterhistoryorg: $505,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetWater Science Institute: $470,000 over 6y, 86% of budgetTouchstone Foundation: $437,198 over 3y, 26% of budgetLancaster Science Center: $403,025 over 8y, 8.4% of budgetLa Academiathe Partnership Charter School: $381,650 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetLancaster Country Day School: $369,080 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Market Trust: $310,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetLancaster Day Care Center: $300,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetCommunity First Fund: $300,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetTenfold Community Lending: $250,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetLancaster County Conservancy: $250,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNew Tech Network Inc: $207,265 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLancaster General Hospital: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusic for Everyone: $200,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetBright Side Opportunities Corporati: $183,215 over 6y, 15% of budgetSusan P Byrnes Health Education Center Inc: $175,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetTenfold: $170,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetThe Conservation Foundation: $160,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThaddeus Stevens Foundation: $160,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetLancaster Redevelopment Fund: $125,000 over 5y, 95% of budgetChi St Joseph Children's Health: $113,250 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMental Health America of Lancaster County: $110,400 over 4y, 10% of budgetThe Lancaster Lgbtq Center: $107,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetThe Bell Foundation Inc: $105,090 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLancaster Area Habitat for Humanity Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetLancaster General Health Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAmerican Secondary Schools for International Students and Teachers Inc: $92,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetGirls on the Run of Lancaster: $90,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetLancaster Cleft Palate Clinic: $78,750 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCentral Pennsylvania Food Bank: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Film Collaborative Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAll Star Code Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLancaster Health Center: $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLeadership Lancaster Inc: $68,950 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetPatients R Waiting Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $63,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLancaster Public Library: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGood Samaritan Services: $60,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLatin American Alliance: $55,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetAaron's Acres: $52,459 over 3y, 3.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 108.

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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.

Lancaster County Community FoundationPA169.5× affinity89 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · High Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · United Way of Lancaster County · Ferree Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Fulton Family Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · City Limits Foundation · Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation · The Abigail L Longenecker Memorial 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.

Compare The Steinman Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to The Steinman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Steinman Foundation 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.

About The Steinman Foundation

How much does The Steinman Foundation give?
The Steinman Foundation reported 96 grants totaling $9,854,690 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 68 and 89 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Steinman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (28%), Education (15%), Philanthropy (13%).
Who are The Steinman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lancaster Farmland Trust ($1.8M), Boys & Girls Club of Lancaster Inc ($1.5M), Little Conestoga Creek Foundation ($1.0M).
Does The Steinman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Steinman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Steinman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lancaster County Community Foundation, High Foundation, Clark Associates Charitable Foundation.
Where is The Steinman Foundation based?
The Steinman Foundation is based in PA.

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 303 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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