· Private foundation
William & Lynda Steere 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $550k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| New York Botanical Garden | $250,000 |
| Metropolitan Museum | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Hoover Institution | $100,000 |
| Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy | $100,000 |
| Lee Health Foundation | $100,000 |
| Habitat For Humanity | $15,000 |
| Rockin Christmas Fund | $15,000 |
| Latino Action Foundation | $15,000 |
| Special Equestrian | $15,000 |
| The Hundred Year Association of New York | $10,000 |
| Crimson Tide Foundation | $10,000 |
| Marine Corps Heritage Fund | $10,000 |
| Williams Syndrome Association | $10,000 |
| Florida Gulf Coast UnivWGCU | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NYNew York University9× · 2017–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +76%
- NYNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +40%
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $500k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- NSNYU School of Medicine2× · 2024–2025 · $500k
- NANational Audubon Society7× · 2019–2025 · $25k
- AJADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INCgraduated8× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue ×24
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
How this is measured
59 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. 59 of the 118 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.
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- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
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- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKIN CHRISTMAS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL EQUESTRIANS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds WINDWALKERS EQUINE ASSISTED LEARNING AND ↗
- Who funds CHALLENGE ASPEN ↗
- Who funds BLAIR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ASPEN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN FILM ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC FKA MIAMI YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
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: Aspen Community Foundation · The Dunn Family Foundation · Ernst and Wilma Martens Foundation · Steven & Kiki Esrick Dream Foundation Inc · John and Jennifer Eckerson Family Foundation C/O Citrin Cooperman · The Glickenhaus Foundation · The Kirk Foundation · Castaways Foundation · The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William & Lynda Steere Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William & Lynda Steere Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc: 4% of income from government
- Special Equestrians Inc: 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc: 1% of income from government
- Miami Children's Museum Inc Fka Miami Youth Museum: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Blair Academy: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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