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Avy and Marcie Stein Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$114k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
43%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 35
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$19k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Avy and Marcie Stein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesPublic BenefitInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$114k33%
FY20237$102k43%
FY20227$84k14%
FY20219$66k22%
FY202012$106k67%
FY201918$92k67%
FY201835$221kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$273kPhilanthropy$152kYouth Development$94kArts & Culture$91kReligion$42kInternational$22kEducation$19kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
PA
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation$151,50560%
Admirals Cove Foundation Inc$101,00041%
Build Inc$93,51551%
Els for Autism Foundation$39,99930%
Chicago Community Foundation$25,0001n/a
Actors Training Center$17,50025%
Writers Theatre Inc$15,00020%
Ravinia Festival Association$14,50030%
Lights on the Lawn$11,0001n/a
Teach for America Inc$10,00010%
Show all 35 grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($236k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Avy and Marcie Stein Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $151,505 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAdmirals Cove Foundation Inc: $101,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBuild Inc: $93,515 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetEls for Autism Foundation: $39,999 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetActors Training Center: $17,500 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRavinia Festival Association: $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSarah Siddons Society Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetElevate Hope Inc D/B/A Red Eye: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Chicago Council on Global Affairs: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lederhausen Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFolds of Honor Foundation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCharles M Schwartz Memorial Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetChristopher House: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJourney for Good Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGeorge Snow Scholarship Fund Inc: $1,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Focus Legacy: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLupus Research Alliance Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHighland Park Players: $1,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Nora Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorthlight Theatre Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCape Eleuthera Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarshfield Clinic Health System Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMisericordia Home: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · First Bank Chicago Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Avy and Marcie Stein Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Avy and Marcie Stein Foundation

How much does Avy and Marcie Stein Foundation give?
Avy and Marcie Stein Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $113,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Avy and Marcie Stein Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (25%), Philanthropy (14%), Youth Development (8%).
Who are Avy and Marcie Stein Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation ($152k), Admirals Cove Foundation Inc ($101k), Build Inc ($94k).
Does Avy and Marcie Stein Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Avy and Marcie Stein Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Avy and Marcie Stein Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust, First Bank Chicago Foundation.
Where is Avy and Marcie Stein Foundation based?
Avy and Marcie Stein Foundation is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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