Staenberg Family Foundation
Saint Louis, MO · EIN 20-2055339. Reported 90 grants totalling $4,398,458 to 56 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Staenberg Family Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a support organization for one specific institution (NTEE T113).
- How spread out its giving is. 56 distinct organizations, with 25% 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.
- How much its list changes. 52% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $18,000. Half of what it reported fell between $9,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,400 and the largest $1,018,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Federation of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $1,109,100 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation of Omaha Inc | Omaha, NE | $1,018,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Maryville University of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $378,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewishcolorado | Denver, CO | $180,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Candid | New York, NY | $120,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cancer Support Community of Greater St Louis | Des Peres, MO | $116,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| P E F Israel Endowment Funds Inc | New York, NY | $99,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| National Council of Jewish Women St Louis Section | St Louis, MO | $92,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewish Community Center | Saint Louis, MO | $90,900 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Craft Alliance | Saint Louis, MO | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jewish-Colorado | Denver, CO | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Be the Narrative | St Louis, MO | $72,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Family and Childrens Service | Waltham, MA | $61,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bnai Brith Youth Organization Inc | Washington, DC | $54,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | Washington, DC | $54,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Orthodox Union | New York, NY | $54,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Louis Mens Group Against Cancer | Saint Louis, MO | $43,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Central Reform Congregation | Saint Louis, MO | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Be the Narrative | Saint Louis, MO | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | New York, NY | $36,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Louis Jewish Light | Saint Louis, MO | $36,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jazz St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Esther Miller Bais Yaakov High School of St Louis Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $27,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| H F Epstein Hebrew Academy | Saint Louis, MO | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hebrew Union College | Cincinnati, OH | $27,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Momentum Unlimited Inc | Rockville, MD | $27,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center of Creative Arts | Saint Louis, MO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| A Million Stars Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Interfaith Residence | Saint Louis, MO | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Prizmah Center for Jewish Day Schoo | New York, NY | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Louis Kollel | Saint Louis, MO | $18,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| St Louis Symphony | St Louis, MO | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Thank Israeli Soldiers | Washington, DC | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ukrainian Patriot Inc | Columbia, SC | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ukranian Patriot Inc | Spring, TX | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Saul Mirowitz Jewish Community School | Creve Coeur, MO | $17,758 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gateway to Hope | Maplewood, MO | $16,200 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Friends of Shalva Israel Inc | New York, NY | $10,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Lion Global Foundation | Greenwood Vlg, CO | $10,800 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| College Bound Inc | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Jewish Joint Distribution | New York, NY | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Flance Early Learning | St Louis, MO | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friends of Jcc Krakow Inc | Suffern, NY | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Judaism Alive | Chesterfield, MO | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Judaism Alive | Ballwin, MO | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shalom Park | Aurora, CO | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Variety the Childrens Charity | Wexford, PA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Variety the Childrens Charity of St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jewish Federation of Southern Illinois | Belleville, IL | $7,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cultural Leadership Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jewish Student Union | St Louis, MO | $7,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Louis Community College Fasttrac | St Louis, MO | $7,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Crohns & Colitis Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $6,600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Camp Thunderbird | St Louis, MO | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Tri-Faith Initiative of Omaha Nebraska | Omaha, NE | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
19 of 56 (34%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Maryville University
Older Adult Services Support - Municipal Theater Association of St Louis (muny)
Presenting Sponsor Fiddler on the Roof - Be the Narrative
"This Is A Win/Win! matching campaign" - Friends of United Hatzalah
Holocaust Education Program - Momentum
Peggy Nelson Walk Sponsorship - Shalom Park
Shalom Park Community Renovations to Support Older Adults
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 33 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 21 | $867,100 | $18,000 |
| 2022 | 15 | $308,958 | $18,000 |
| 2023 | 28 | $1,853,000 | $18,000 |
| 2024 | 26 | $1,369,400 | $10,000 |
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
55% of its giving went to organizations in Missouri. 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.
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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.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $18,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Missouri.
- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Staenberg Family Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 26 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: 12 Millstone Campus Drive, Saint Louis, MO, 63146.
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