Steel Dynamics Foundation

• If your organisation is a 501(c)(3) public charity funded primarily from private sources, and it works in a community where Steel Dynamics employees live and work, its work fits the Foundation's stated priorities of higher education, STEM, finance and business, economic and community development, and human services.
• Most grants are modest: about 8 in 10 fall between $25,000 and $200,000 and half are $50,000 or less, so a request in that range is typical, although the largest grant in the filing was $1,000,000.
• Begin by sending a request to your local Steel Dynamics facility; if it is supported, the Foundation will email you an application to complete with financial information and return directly to it, and it gives special consideration to organisations backed by its facilities and by employees' time, talent and donations.
• Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, but 83% of its grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had already funded, so the process looks relationship-led and a local facility contact is the sensible first step.
• Organisations that are not 501(c)(3) public charities funded primarily from private sources, or that do not serve a community where Steel Dynamics employees live and work, should not apply.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Trine University · College of health professions
  $1,000,0002024 tax year
• Trine University · New engineering wing
  $300,0002024 tax year
• Fort Wayne Zoo · Bamboo adventure
  $200,0002024 tax year
• Boys and Girls Club · New busses
  $150,0002024 tax year
• Junior Achievement · Ja next/ legacy park
  $100,0002024 tax year
• National Ornamental Metal Museum · Spark expansion campaign
  $100,0002024 tax year
• Trine University · Scholarships
  $85,0002024 tax year
• Arts United · Actor's house & green room
  $62,5002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.