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.

The Steinman Foundation

The Steinman Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

The Steinman Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9.9M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$7.0M

Largest

01What it funds

0193% 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

02FY2024 · 96 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k44 grants · $220k
$10k–50k32 grants · $612k
$50k–250k18 grants · $1.6M
$250k+2 grants · $7.4M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$111M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
STEINMAN INSTITUTE FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT	$7,000,000
LANCASTERHISTORYORG	$400,000
TOUCHSTONE FOUNDATION	$229,419
ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE	$156,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER	$120,000
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP	$118,675
LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH FOUNDATION	$100,000
PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE	$100,000
LANCASTER CITY ALLIANCE	$100,000
UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY	$75,750
COCALICO SCHOOL DISTRICT	$75,000
THE FILM COLLABORATIVE	$75,000
HORIZONS AT LANCASTER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL	$74,000
LANCASTER SCIENCE FACTORY	$70,000
LANCASTER CLEAN WATER PARTNERS	$65,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $517k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$34M · 141 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

141 repeat relationships: 60 still active in FY2024, 81 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

141

125

Total granted

$34M

$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+33%

Still filing today

38%

32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $595k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

LF
LANCASTER FARMLAND TRUST
7× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +95%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LANCASTER INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +37%
UW
UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY
8× · 2017–2024 · $885k · revenue +8%

Funded once

HD
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION MIDATLANTIC
one grant, 2023 · $750k · revenue -2%
LC
LANCASTER COUNTY LOCAL JOURNALISM FUND
one grant, 2022 · $500k
ED
ECONOMIC DEVCO OF LANCASTER COUNTY
one grant, 2018 · $250k

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.

Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry

The lancaster chamber of commerce & industry's mission is to create the environment, facilitate partnerships, and lead on issues that elevate business success. the chamber has 5 strategic priorities: public policy, workforce, business…

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Lancaster Community Safety Coalition

Enhance public safety and the quality of life in lancaster by engaging the community and advancing current crime prevention strategies.

Public Safety & Disaster

Lancaster General Health

Provides managerial and financial support to its controlled organizations and is also responsible for undertaking activities designed to advance the general health of the community.

Health

The Arc of Lancaster County

Empowering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) and their families to lead full, satisfying, independent lives of their choice.

Health

Lancaster County Academy

Lancaster county academy's mission is to empower non-traditional learners to achieve academic success, career readiness and personal growth through flexible, student-centered programs that values independence, resilience, and real-world…

Education

Lancaster County Council of the Arts

To enrich the quality of life in Lancaster County by building vibrant and inclusive communities connecting arts, culture, education, and economic vitality.

Arts & Culture

Lawrence County Economic Development Corp

To transform lives by serving as a creative force that promotes excellence in leadership, coordination, and orderly business development

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Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.

Education

Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education

Assets Lancaster

Assets lancaster is a non-profit that works with start-up and existing businesses to form a more equitable and ethical economy. assets lancaster offers in-depth training and financing for entrepreneurs, and works with established…

Community Improvement

Central Penn Business Group On Health

Central business group on health advocates for the appropriate balance between cost and quality of employee healthcare in lancaster county by providing education on healthcare issues, promoting cooperation among payers, providers and…

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Lycoming College

The mission of lycoming college is to provide a distinguished baccalaureate education in the liberal arts and sciences within a coeducational, supportive, and residential setting.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancaster County Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Little Conestoga Creek Foundation. 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

113 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 113 of the 303 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

107/113

Grantees still filing

81/113

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$27,372,083Philanthropy$4,187,198Education$3,076,317Environment$2,677,456Arts & Culture$2,097,971Housing & Shelter$1,300,000Community Improvement$951,250

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Steinman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Steinman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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