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Gershon and Lois Stern Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$66k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$148kInternational$80kPhilanthropy$58kHealth$55kHuman Services$30kCivil Rights$12kReligion$11kScience & Tech$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$1,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA$25,000
JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL (JAFINA)$10,000
TEAK FELLOWSHIP$5,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - RETINA RESEARCH FUND$5,000
AMERICAN FOREIGN ACADEMIC RESEARCH (AFAR)$5,000
THE SHARED HUMANITY PROJECT$5,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION$2,250
FRENCHMAN'S CREEK CHARITIES FOUNDATION$1,700
OCEAN HILL CATS$1,500
CHABAD AT THE SHORE$1,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$1,100
UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$1,000
NC DISASTER RELIEF FUND (UNITED WAY)$500
PLAY FOR PINK$500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$300
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $20 → 14%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $500 → 7%Larkin Street Youth Service: $2k → 10%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $3k → 16%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $250 → 7%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 10%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $1k → 16%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $1k → 10%TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
SD
PA
NJ
RI
CA
MD
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$170k · 25 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
47

Total granted

$170k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+26%

Still filing today

56%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JA
    JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +1%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FOREIGN ACADEMIC RESEARCH INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +97%
  • JM
    Jupiter Medical Center Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $9k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH JERSEY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • CC
    CAMDEN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +11%
  • AW
    A WIDER CIRCLE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -53%
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.

04Its field

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.

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New York University

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.

Education
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
5
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
8
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
9
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
10
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
11
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
12
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hebrew Womens Benevolent Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 87 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
32/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,200 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNS…AMERICAN FOREIGN ACADEMIC RESEARCH INC: $15,000 · EducationAMERICAN FOREIGN ACADEMIC RESEARCH …A WIDER CIRCLE INC: $7,500 · EducationA WIDER CIRCLE INCTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationYMCA: $25,000 · OtherYMCACOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - RETINA RESEARCH FUND: $15,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY - RETINA RES…JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH JERSEY: $10,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH JERSE…CAMDEN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherCAMDEN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONAMERICAN FOREIGN ACADEMIC RESEARCH (AFAR): $7,500 · OtherAMERICAN FOREIGN ACADEMIC RESEAR…Cooper Medical School: $6,000 · OtherCHABAD AT THE SHORE INC: $5,180 · OtherDEPARTMENT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IRVING MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 · OtherPOLITZ DAY SCHOOL EXPANSION: $5,000 · OtherUVM CANCER CENTER'S PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $5,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 · Other+45 more: $20,916 · Other+45 moreJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $75,000 · InternationalJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRA…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (…+1 more: $100 · InternationalJewish Federation of Cumberland Gloucester & Salem Counties: $25,600 · PhilanthropyJewish Feder…FRENCHMANS CREEK CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC: $8,245 · PhilanthropyFRENCHMANS C…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $6,200 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDER…JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $4,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDER…Jupiter Medical Center Inc: $8,600 · HealthTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,900 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $500 · Health+5 more: $455 · HealthTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth Services: $4,500 · Human ServicesOpen Door Mission: $3,500 · Human ServicesOCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $750 · Human ServicesSONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $500 · Human Services+2 more: $120 · Human ServicesSHARED HUMANITY PROJECT: $10,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 · Civil Rights
Education$128,700Other$117,096International$80,100Philanthropy$44,045Health$14,455Human Services$14,370Civil Rights$12,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $100,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Federation of Cumberland Gloucester & Salem Counties: $25,600 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOREIGN ACADEMIC RESEARCH INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSHARED HUMANITY PROJECT: $10,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Inc: $8,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRENCHMANS CREEK CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC: $8,245 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCAMDEN COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $6,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpen Door Mission: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN HILL CATS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetROWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHEVRA KADISHA OF ALLIANCE: $250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FERD AND GLADYS ALPERT JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICE OF PALM BEACH C OUNTY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPER FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW WOMENS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY: $50 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACES The National Craniofacial Association: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $20 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN7.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gershon and Lois Stern Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gershon and Lois Stern Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Florida Sheriffs Association Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Rowan University Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Gershon and Lois Stern Family Foundation Inc 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.

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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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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