The Jill and William Steinberg Family Foundation is a highly targeted arts funder, concentrating almost exclusively on contemporary music and experimental performance. Their grants primarily support a single flagship music organization and a prominent performance space, funding program operations and artist fellowships/scholarships. The foundation appears to prioritize NYC-based creative presenting organizations and direct support for composers/performers.
Concentrated and repeat-focused: relatively few, sizable grants with the majority of dollars directed to one primary grantee and multiple repeat awards; emphasis on program support and fellowships rather than broad, distributed giving.
The Jill and William Steinberg Family Foundation has centered its giving on contemporary music and experimental performance, with repeated support for the same New York City institutions across multiple years. The largest recent award in the data was $97,100 to Original Music Workshop Inc in Brooklyn for the National Sawdust Program, showing how much of the foundation’s work is tied to a specific presenting platform. Another recurring recipient is Performance Space 122 Inc in New York, which received $20,000 grants for the Derek Lloyd Production Fellowship in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Those patterns point to a funder that backs both program operations and artist-facing training, rather than spreading gifts across many unrelated causes. The foundation’s grants also include support for general and unrestricted needs, alongside fellowship and scholarship funding tied to production and performance. Across the recent grants listed here, the emphasis stays narrow: music creation, live presentation, and professional development for artists and production professionals.
In contemporary and new-music work, the foundation gave $97,100 to Original Music Workshop Inc for the National Sawdust Program. That same organization also received $50,000 in 2023, $50,000 in 2024, $45,000 in 2023 for National Sawdust program and General & Unrestricted support, and $30,000 in 2024 for the same program. In experimental performance, Performance Space 122 Inc received $20,000 in 2023 for the Derek Lloyd Production Fellowship Scholarship Fund, followed by $20,000 in 2024 and $20,000 in 2025 for the Derek Lloyd Production Fellowship. The foundation also made a $5,000 unrestricted grant to Opera America Inc in 2024, indicating some support beyond the core fellowship and presenting-program grants.
The typical grant size is moderate: the p25 is $20,000, the median is $30,000, and the p75 is $50,000. The recent record also shows repeat funding to the same recipients across 2023, 2024, and 2025, which suggests an ongoing relationship rather than isolated gifts. The foundation operates as a family foundation and funds individuals, and the grant descriptions include both program support and general & unrestricted support. No application process is shown in the data provided.
$117K
$1.9M
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$152K
Most grants fall between $20K and $50K, with a median of $30K.
25th Percentile
$20K
Median
$30K
75th Percentile
$50K
About 0% of grants go to recipients in NY.
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Notable grantees: Original Music Workshop, Inc. (National Sawdust program), Performance Space 122, Inc., Derek Lloyd Production Fellowship (scholarship program at Performance Space 122)
Giving is concentrated in New York, which is the top state by grant count, while 0% of grants in the data went to Delaware recipients. Recent recipients are all in the US, with Brooklyn and New York appearing repeatedly. Brooklyn-based Original Music Workshop Inc received multiple awards, and New York-based Performance Space 122 Inc and Opera America Inc also appear in the recent grants list. The recipient-country distribution is entirely domestic.
The foundation supports contemporary and new-music organizations, experimental and avant-garde performance venues, and artist fellowship or scholarship programs. Recent grants name National Sawdust programming, the Derek Lloyd Production Fellowship, and general support for Opera America Inc.
The grant-size distribution centers on $20,000 to $50,000 awards, with a p25 of $20,000, a median of $30,000, and a p75 of $50,000. The recent list also includes a larger $97,100 grant and a smaller $5,000 unrestricted grant.
Yes. Original Music Workshop Inc appears in the recent grants across 2023, 2024, and 2025, and Performance Space 122 Inc also appears in those same three years. That pattern points to continuing support for a small set of organizations.
The data shows regional giving, with all recent grants going to US recipients. New York is the top state by grant count, and recent recipients include organizations in Brooklyn and New York. No grants in the listed data went to Delaware recipients.
2026
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2026.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC | BROOKLYN, NY | $117,107 | 2026 | NATIONAL SAWDUST PROGRAM |
| ORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC | BROOKLYN, NY | $97,100 | 2025 | National Sawdust Program |
| PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 INC | NEW YORK, NY | $20,000 | 2025 | Derek Lloyd Production Fellowship |
| ORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC | BROOKLYN, NY | $50,000 | 2024 | National Sawdust program |
| ORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC | BROOKLYN, NY | $30,000 | 2024 | National Sawdust program |
| PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 INC | NEW YORK, NY | $20,000 | 2024 | Derek Lloyd Production Fellowship SCHOLARSHIP FUND |
| OPERA AMERICA INC | NEW YORK, NY | $5,000 | 2024 | General & Unrestricted |
| ORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC | BROOKLYN, NY | $50,000 | 2023 | National Sawdust program |
| ORIGINAL MUSIC WORKSHOP INC | BROOKLYN, NY | $45,000 | 2023 | National Sawdust program and General & Unrestricted |
| PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 INC | NEW YORK, NY | $20,000 | 2023 | Derek Lloyd Production Fellowship Scholarship Fund |
National Sawdust program and General & Unrestricted