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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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $3,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $2,750 |
| WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $700 |
| JEWISH GUILD HEALTHCARE | $600 |
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $600 |
| THIRTEEN | $600 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $600 |
| CITY MEALS ON WHEELS | $500 |
| CITY HARVEST | $500 |
| GMHC | $500 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH | $500 |
| FOOD BANK OF NY | $500 |
| AMFAR | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2018, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS2× · 2017–2018 · $750 · revenue +38%
- RFROSCOE FREE LIBRARY2× · 2017–2018 · $700 · revenue +5%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2017–2018 · $670 · revenue +58%
Funded once
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +58%- WIWEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCEone grant, 2017 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…
The contemporary jewish museum (the cjm) makes the diversity of the jewish experience relevant for a twenty-first-century audience through innovative exhibitions and programs that educate, challenge, and inspire.
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds ROSCOE FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds West Side Hatzoloh ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Esther Esh Sternberg Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Esther Esh Sternberg Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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