California · Nonprofit
STENO INSTITUTE
STENO INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,000 to it, the largest being KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $57k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $103k
- Net assets
- $386k
What Steno Institute does
Mission
The Steno Institute will conduct, promote and publish high quality, morally sound health science and clinical research in pro-life areas, including but not limited to abortion, medical abortion reversal, end of life, euthanasia, and family planning. Initially, the institute will focus on medical abortion reversal. The institute will be the first of its kind in the u.s. And internationally. The institute is named after blessed nicolas steno, the renowned 17th century danish scientist, physician and bishop.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Steno Institute will conduct, promote and publish high quality, morally sound health science and clinical research in pro-life areas, including but not limited to abortion, medical abortion reversal, end of life, euthanasia, and family planning. Initially, the institute will focus on medical abortion reversal. The institute will be the first of its kind in the u.s. And internationally. The institute is named after blessed nicolas steno, the renowned 17th century danish scientist, physician and bishop.
$8,594 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $8,594.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $217k to $331k (+52%).
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.
100% of STENO INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $100k → $2k.
From the IRS filings of STENO INSTITUTE’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
STENO INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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
97% 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 STENO INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
STENO INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
STENO INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like STENO INSTITUTE
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.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STENO INSTITUTE: 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 STENO INSTITUTE?
- STENO INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,000 to it, the largest being KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ($100,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STENO INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $103,000 in grants to STENO INSTITUTE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STENO INSTITUTE?
- KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STENO INSTITUTE 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 2 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