California · Nonprofit
LJ STEAM FOUNDATION
LJ STEAM FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,000 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $77k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $51
What Lj Steam Foundation does
Mission
The Lj Steam Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to enhancing steam for the benefit of the la jolla community. Our mission is to foster a love for steam disciplines and promote their integration into various aspects of life. We achieve our goals through programs and projects in collaboration with leading international and local experts.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Achievement #1: developed ocean watch concept for a global ocean monitoring system. Recruited and appointed technical team to review concept and convened a blue ribbon panel to review to perform a plan for future direction. Achievement #2: data sonification project, continued to develop scientific basis for integration of music with science.. In colloboration with sound exploration, brought the musical storybook into fruition, arranged for hard copy to be in warwick's bookstores and introduced it to the san diego book fair in august 2023. Continued work with whale behavior and initiated new concepts to make it acceptable to the visual impaired. Achievement #3: organized, planned and conducted the 2023 la jolla holiday festival event.
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Ann U Kerr
CEO
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LJ STEAM FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LJ STEAM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
53% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LJ STEAM FOUNDATION.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
53% of LJ STEAM FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $9k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
LJ STEAM FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 626 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 626 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2023
Organizations like LJ STEAM FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LJ STEAM FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LJ STEAM FOUNDATION?
- LJ STEAM FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,000 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LJ STEAM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $19,000 in grants to LJ STEAM FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of LJ STEAM FOUNDATION?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LJ STEAM FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing