New York · Private foundation
Erna & Isaac Stern Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $79k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $609k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Erna & Isaac Stern Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
InternationalEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $79k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $50k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $58k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $50k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $57k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $41k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $48k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $50k | 29% |
99% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
International$132kEducation$101kHuman Services$81kHealth$53kEnvironment$43kScience & Tech$19kArts & Culture$13kPhilanthropy$13kOther$0
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
WA
NY
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
TX
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hias Inc | $37,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Fistula Foundation | $36,500 | 8 | 0% |
| College Track | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $34,200 | 7 | 0% |
| The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation | $27,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Lafayette College | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $10,500 | 4 | 0% |
| America Gives Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hias Inc | $37,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Fistula Foundation | $36,500 | 8 | 0% |
| College Track | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $34,200 | 7 | 0% |
| The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation | $27,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Lafayette College | $25,000 | 6 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $10,500 | 4 | 0% |
| America Gives Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| A Better Chance Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Clear Fund | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Helen Keller International | $8,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Rwanda Education Assistance Project | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| United Negro College Fund Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Movember Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fresh Air Fund | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Technoserve Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The George and Barbara Bush Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($141k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Erna & Isaac Stern Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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 17.
About Erna & Isaac Stern Foundation Inc
- How much does Erna & Isaac Stern Foundation Inc give?
- Erna & Isaac Stern Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $78,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Erna & Isaac Stern Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (27%), Education (21%), Human Services (16%).
- Who are Erna & Isaac Stern Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hias Inc ($38k), The Fistula Foundation ($37k), College Track ($35k).
- Does Erna & Isaac Stern Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Erna & Isaac Stern Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Erna & Isaac Stern Foundation Inc based?
- Erna & Isaac Stern Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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