North Dakota · Private foundation
Alex Stern Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $554k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 69
- Grants FY2025
- 66
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $112,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 53 to 71
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Alex Stern Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 67 | $441k | 34% |
| FY2024 | 66 | $452k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 71 | $474k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 68 | $469k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $367k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $311k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Grove Lutheran High School | $75,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Handi-Wheels Transportation Inc | $55,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Landon's Light Foundation | $50,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Valley City State University | $42,858 | 3 | n/a |
| TNT Kid's Fitness | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Great Plains Food Bank | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Gold Gymnastics | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Haley's Hope Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Red River Childrens Advocacy Center | $35,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Fargo-Moorhead Orchestral Association | $32,500 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 92 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Alex Stern Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation · Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation · The Barry Foundation · Dakota Medical Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Offutt Family Foundation · Sanford Group Return · Impact Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · North Dakota Community Foundation · Fred M Hector Jr Charitable Trust · United Way of Cass-Clay
How this is measured
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About Alex Stern Family Foundation
- How much does Alex Stern Family Foundation give?
- Alex Stern Family Foundation reported 69 grants totaling $553,833 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 71 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Alex Stern Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), Education (16%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Alex Stern Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Oak Grove Lutheran High School ($75k), Handi-Wheels Transportation Inc ($55k), Landon's Light Foundation ($50k).
- Does Alex Stern Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alex Stern Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Alex Stern Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fargo-Moorhead Area Foundation Corporation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota Caring Foundation, The Barry Foundation.
- Where is Alex Stern Family Foundation based?
- Alex Stern Family Foundation is based in ND.
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