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Esther Esh Sternberg Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$25k
Granted FY2017
43
Grants FY2017
42
Organizations funded FY2017
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100% of Esther Esh Sternberg Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Jewish Communal Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Esther Esh Sternberg Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 24 organizations, $25k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

24
’17
4
’18
0
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2017
$400
Largest grant, FY2017
$3,000
States reached, FY2017
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$315kArts & Culture$10kHealth$7kScience & Tech$3kReligion$3kFood & Nutrition$2kEducation$1kInternational$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Esther Esh Sternberg Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $670 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGay Men's Health Crisis Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Jewish Health: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation for AIDS Research: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Yiddish Book Center Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Hearing and Communication: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Jewish History Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jewish Museum: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Ballet Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Doe Fund Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Art Fund Inc: $100 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 22.

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

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Esther Esh Sternberg Foundation

How much does Esther Esh Sternberg Foundation give?
Esther Esh Sternberg Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $24,700 in its FY2017 IRS filing.
What does Esther Esh Sternberg Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Philanthropy (91%), Arts & Culture (3%), Health (2%).
Who are Esther Esh Sternberg Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ($3k), Citymeals-On-Wheels ($750), Roscoe Free Library ($700).
Does Esther Esh Sternberg 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.
Where is Esther Esh Sternberg Foundation based?
Esther Esh Sternberg Foundation is based in NY.

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 47 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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