· Public charity
Chavie Stern Family Foundation Inc
Charitable distribution
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $409,170 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $431,655 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $22,485 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k9 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $271k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOBOWER SHA-ARE ZION CONG | $72,650 |
| Cong Kehilas Raintree | $36,000 |
| Kollel Zichron Shmuel | $27,500 |
| AMIDEI ZION OF BOBOV INC | $26,500 |
| Cong Sheves Achim Gam Yachad | $25,000 |
| YALDEI TZION | $23,000 |
| KOLEL SHOMRE HACHOMOS OF JERUSALEM INC | $18,000 |
| Friends of Neve College for Women | $15,000 |
| Boro Park Jewish Community Council | $15,000 |
| KBY MORNING KOLLEL | $12,000 |
| MISHKAN SHALOM INC | $12,000 |
| CONG ANSHEI UJHELY | $10,800 |
| CONG TIFERES TZVI | $10,000 |
| Brisker Kollel | $10,000 |
| CONG MOSDOS SLONIM | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2021, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MYMIRRER YESHIVA CENTRAL INSTITUTE7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M
- TDTHE DORM8× · 2017–2024 · $314k
- AZAMIDEI ZION OF BOBOV INC8× · 2017–2024 · $185k
Funded once
- CCCONGREGATION CHASDEI SHLOIME6× · 2019–2024 · $73k
- CGCONG GEMACH BNEI PINCHOS7× · 2018–2024 · $53k
- CYCHASDEI YISROEL INCgraduated6× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +70%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
A post-secondary school offering an educational program in talmudic study
Maintain communal and charitable affairs in accordance with the tradition of the orthodox jewish faith
Religious School
Raise funds for religious and educational institutions in the state of israel, and to provide funds to needy individuals in the state of israel.
To provide financial assistance to jewish educational and charitable causes.
Furtherance of jewish education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chasdei Yisroel Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chemed Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 56 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AHAVAS CHESED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE KESHER CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds CHASDEI YISROEL INC ↗
- Who funds Kolel Shomre Hachomos of Jerusalem Inc ↗
- Who funds CONGREGATION BNOS YAKOV ↗
- Who funds BORO PARK JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NEVE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds TASHBAR OF LAKEWOOD INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · Donors Fund Inc · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · National Society for Hebrew Day Schools · S&W Foundation Inc · Zichron Chaim Charity Fund · The Basch Family Foundation · Zichron Yechiel Mechel Foundation · Regina Goldwasser Foundation · Chayim V Chesed · B&M Steinmetz Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Chavie Stern Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Yeshiva Toras Aron Inc — 8% of income from government
- Tashbar of Lakewood Inc — 4% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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