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The Steinhart Foundation Inc

Nebraska City, NE · EIN 47-6025185. Reported 82 grants totalling $1,650,976 to 48 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$7,250median grant
$1,650,976granted, 2021-2024
48organizations funded
22%of grantees funded again the next year
$8,620,148assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Steinhart Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $7,250. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,500 and $17,500; the smallest was $500 and the largest $268,788. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
5 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
20 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
23 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
17 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
9 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
5 grants
$100,000 and Up
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
City of Nebraska CityNebraska City, NE$548,0581142024
Lourdes Central Catholic SchoolNebraska City, NE$387,500432024
Nebraska City Public SchoolNebraska City, NE$109,500732023
Dunbar Volunteer Fire DepartmentLofton, NE$50,000112022
Nebraska City Area EconomicNebraska City, NE$50,000112021
Region V ServicesNebraska City, NE$50,000112023
Historical Preservation Society of the Nebraska City Volunteer Fire DeptNebraska City, NE$44,950112024
Keep Nebraska City BeautifulNebraska City, NE$40,000112022
Nebraska City Tourism & CommerceNebraska City, NE$36,500312024
St Mary's Hospital FoundationNebraska City, NE$35,500322024
Nebraska City Rural Fire ProtectionNebraska City, NE$32,000112023
Nebraska City TourismNebraska City, NE$30,677532023
Otoe County AgriculturalSyracuse, NE$24,357112021
Nebraska City MuseumNebraska City, NE$20,000222022
University of Nebraska - LincolnLincoln, NE$15,000112024
Nebraska City Baseball AssociationNebraska City, NE$11,500112024
Nebraska Ciyt Public SchoolNebraska City, NE$10,080112021
Make-a-Wish Foundation NebraskaLincoln, NE$10,000112024
Radio Talkng BookLincoln, NE$10,000222023
Nebraska City Public FdNebraska City, NE$9,954112021
Tanner Foss ProjectMalvern, IA$9,600112024
Nebraska Wesleyan UniversityLincoln, NE$7,500112024
St Mary's HospitalNebraska City, NE$7,500112023
University of Nebraska - OmahaOmaha, NE$7,500222024
Nebraska City FiremenNebraska City, NE$6,500112021
Nebraska City BaseballNebraska City, NE$6,000112021
Nebraska City Public SchoolsNebraska City, NE$6,000112024
Otoe County Agricultural SocietyNebraska City, NE$6,000222024
806 Historical FoundationNebraska City, NE$5,950112021
Blue Star Mothers of America Nebraska Chapter 1Nebraska City, NE$5,000112024
Civil War Veterans MuseumNebraska City, NE$5,000112022
Nebraska WesleyanNebraska City, NE$5,000212021
Nebraska Wesleyan UnivLincoln, NE$5,000212021
Radio Talking BookLincoln, NE$5,000112021
Radio Talking Book ServiceNebraska City, NE$5,000112024
Teammates of Nebraska CityNebraska City, NE$5,000112024
University of NebraskaLincoln, NE$5,000212021
Blue Valley Behavioral HealthNebraska City, NE$3,850112024
Bryan Lgh CollegeLincoln, NE$2,500112021
Midland UniversityFremont, NE$2,500112021
Mount Marty UniversityYankton, SD$2,500112021
Nebraska City Youth SoccerNebraska City, NE$2,500112024
Southeast Missouri State UniversityCape Giradeau, MO$2,500112024
Teammates MentoringLincoln, NE$2,500112022
Wayne State CollegeWayne, NE$2,500112021
Greater Nebraska ScienceNebraska City, NE$500112024
Greater Nebraska Science FairNebraska City, NE$500112021
Nebraska City High School After PromNebraska City, NE$500112022

9 of 48 (19%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 22%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Recreation & Sports
4 grants
Education
3 grants
Youth Development
2 grants
Arts & Culture
2 grants
Mental Health
1 grant
Environment
1 grant
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant
Community Improvement
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202129$388,821$5,950
202218$458,550$9,000
202311$287,917$17,500
202424$515,688$5,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Already committed for future years

Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. The Steinhart Foundation Inc has 8 of them, worth $266,445. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.

OrganizationLocationApproved
Lourdes Central Catholic SchoolNebraska City, NE$100,000
Lourdes Central Catholic SchoolNebraska City, NE$46,445
Nebraska City Museum AssociationNebraska City, NE$30,000
Nebraska City Public SchoolNebraska City, NE$25,000
Lourdes Central Catholic SchoolNebraska City, NE$25,000
St Mary's Hospital FoundationNebraska City, NE$15,000
St Mary's Hospital FoundationNebraska City, NE$15,000
Nebraska City MuseumNebraska City, NE$10,000

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 99% of this one's giving went to organizations in Nebraska. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Nebraska
$1.6M
Iowa
$10K
Missouri
$2K
South Dakota
$2K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc5 shared recipientsKarl H and Wealtha H Nelson4 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 shared recipientsCooper Foundation4 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc4 shared recipientsEnterprise Holdings Foundation4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $7,250. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Nebraska.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Steinhart Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 601 Central Avenue Suite 105, Nebraska City, NE, 68410. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 47-6025185 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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