· Private foundation
Erna & Isaac Stern Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FISTULA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICA GIVES | $10,000 |
| REAP | $7,000 |
| MOVEMBER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HIAS | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $5,000 |
| HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE TRACK | $5,000 |
| FRESH AIR FUND | $5,000 |
| SARATOGA LITERACY LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| BERNARD & MILLIE DUKER CHILDREN'S FUND | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ALBANY CHILDRENS FUND | $3,500 |
| DELAWARE VALLEY COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| WELLSPRING | $2,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- HIHIAS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +191%
The Fistula Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +42%- CTCOLLEGE TRACK6× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TCTHE CLEAR FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $9k · revenue +31%
- RERWANDA EDUCATION ASSISTANCE PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue -13%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
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Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 36 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 HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds RWANDA EDUCATION ASSISTANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds US COMMITTEE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Erna & Isaac Stern 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% 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.