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Steer Inc

Bismarck, ND · EIN 45-0262160. Reported 148 grants totalling $3,535,364 to 56 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

56organizations funded
$14,364median reported grant
$3,535,364granted, 2021-2023
93%of grantees funded again the next year
10%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Steer Inc, the IRS classifies it under religion rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE X20J) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 56 distinct organizations, with 10% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 93% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $14,364. Half of what it reported fell between $8,720 and $25,737; the smallest was $5,176 and the largest $140,226. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
48 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
61 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
21 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
15 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Campus Crusade for Christ IncOrlando, FL$362,869332023
North American Baptist ConferenceRoseville, CA$290,189332023
Fellowship of Christian AthletesKansas City, MO$247,972332023
Student Impact International IncEscondido, CA$202,688332023
Cowboys With a MissionMeeteetse, WY$162,070332023
Child Evangelism Fellowship IncWarrenton, MO$158,522332023
Wycliffe Bible Translators IncOrlando, FL$138,365332023
Village MissionsDallas, OR$130,130332023
Youth for Christ USA IncParker, CO$116,734332023
Mission Aviation FellowshipNampa, ID$95,017332023
Trans World Radio PacificCary, NC$95,010332023
The General Council of the Assemblies of GodSpringfield, MO$91,694332023
ETHNOS360 IncSanford, FL$81,060332023
Revival Prayer FellowshipBismarck, ND$79,619332023
Back to the BibleLincoln, NE$71,634332023
The Evangelical Free Church of AmericaBloomington, MN$67,399332023
Pacesetters IncMinot, ND$61,191332023
Reaching and Teaching International Ministries IncorporatedLouisville, KY$58,422332023
World Gospel MissionMarion, IN$55,048332023
Awana Clubs InternationalSt Charles, IL$50,683332023
Kids at the CASA IncFergus Falls, MN$50,399332023
PioneersOrlando, FL$49,829332023
Action International MinistriesMountlake Ter, WA$48,491332023
Interact Ministries IncBoring, OR$45,957332023
Fellowship of Christian Cowboys IncCanon City, CO$45,363332023
Association of Free Lutheran CongregationsPlymouth, MN$42,176332023
Evangelical Alliance MissionAurora, IL$38,499332023
Gospel for Asia IncWills Point, TX$37,792332023
Send International of the United States IncFarmingtn Hls, MI$36,797332023
Barnabas InternationalElkhorn, WI$34,992332023
Bcm International IncLancaster, PA$34,769332023
InfaithExton, PA$31,724332023
Food for the Hungry IncPhoenix, AZ$29,951332023
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship- USAMadison, WI$29,090332023
One-Way Evangelistic MinistriesCheyenne, WY$28,404332023
World VisionFederal Way, WA$26,270332023
Vision Beyond Borders IncCasper, WY$25,137332023
Rick & Mick Vigneulle Ministries IncWilsonville, AL$23,723222022
Adventures in Missions IncGainesville, GA$23,589222023
International Missions IncRichardson, TX$23,380332023
One Mission Society USA IncGreenwood, IN$22,065332023
Crista MinistriesShoreline, WA$21,954332023
New Hope Uganda Ministries IncBelle Fourche, SD$21,643332023
The NavigatorsColorado Spgs, CO$21,265222023
People InternationalVancouver, WA$19,609332023
General Conference of the Church of God -Seventh Day-Denver, CO$17,493332023
Church of the Lutheran BrethrenFergus Falls, MN$17,324222023
Evangelical Friends Church-North AmericaWichita, KS$12,606222023
Bibles for the WorldColorado Spgs, CO$11,401222023
Trans World MissionsPanorama City, CA$9,264112023
Kenya Evangelical MissionS Lake Tahoe, CA$8,007112023
International MessengersClear Lake, IA$7,163112021
Childrens Shelter of CebuSaint Paul, MN$6,432112021
Christian & Missionary AllianceReynoldsburg, OH$5,697112022
Omf International IncLittleton, CO$5,422112021
Sim USA IncorporatedCharlotte, NC$5,371112023

49 of 56 (88%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 of 56 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Religion
20 orgs
International Affairs
6 orgs
Youth Development
3 orgs
Human Services
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202149$1,060,955$12,280
202248$1,095,132$12,196
202351$1,379,277$16,486

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

18% of its giving went to organizations in Florida. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Florida
$632K
California
$510K
Missouri
$498K
Colorado
$218K
Wyoming
$216K
Minnesota
$184K
Oregon
$176K
North Dakota
$141K

Down to the city

Orlando, FL
$551K
Roseville, CA
$290K
Kansas City, MO
$248K
Escondido, CA
$203K
Meeteetse, WY
$162K
Warrenton, MO
$159K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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 Inc42 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund42 shared recipientsNatl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc39 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program35 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation30 shared recipientsServant Foundation28 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $14,364 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Florida.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Steer Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 51 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1236, Bismarck, ND, 58502.

EIN 45-0262160 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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