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STEELE FAMILY FOUNDATION

STEELE FAMILY FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,000 to it, the largest being The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$473k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$400k
Net assets
$2.0M
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 26%
01What it does

What Steele Family Foundation does

Mission

Steele Family Foundation supports the educational goals of americans by providing grants to teachers and schools, and scholarships to those who embrace the ideals of civility, integrity, and social responsibility.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Production and educational presentations and training. Teacher and student support for education.

    $182,278 spent
    100% of program spending
  2. Production and educational presentations and training costs. Teacher and student costs support for education.

The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $182,278.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($1.6M) Expenses 100 ($85k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 24 ($388k) Expenses 223 ($190k) Net assets 113 ($1.7M)2024 Revenue 30 ($473k) Expenses 245 ($208k) Net assets 131 ($2.0M)
202220232024
Revenue (30)Expenses (245)Net assets (131)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $2.0M (+16%).

$1.5M
$1.7M
$2.0M
202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

68% of STEELE FAMILY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.5M
’22
$198k
’23
$264k
’24
113
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

202220232024
Listed222
Joined···
No longer listed···
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of STEELE FAMILY 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

STEELE FAMILY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% 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

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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

STEELE FAMILY FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 2 states in all.

WI
TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

STEELE FAMILY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin56% · top quartile
Months of reserve113.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−45% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like STEELE FAMILY 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 Arizona

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

2
board members
0%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STEELE FAMILY 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 STEELE FAMILY FOUNDATION?
STEELE FAMILY FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $400,000 to it, the largest being The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc ($200,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STEELE FAMILY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $400,000 in grants to STEELE FAMILY FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of STEELE FAMILY FOUNDATION?
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STEELE FAMILY FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), 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