Florida · Private foundation
Irvin Stern Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $626k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 41%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 45
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Irvin Stern Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $596k | 57% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $583k | 41% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $855k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $917k | 39% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $863k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $808k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago | $480,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Milagro Foundation Inc | $200,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Nourishing Hope | $170,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Root & Rebound | $150,000 | 4 | 1% |
| University of Michigan | $125,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Brooklyn Boatworks Inc | $120,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School | $120,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Housing Plus Solutions Inc | $110,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Project Most Inc | $100,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Inside Out Network Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 14% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Irvin Stern Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Helen V Brach Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Circle of Service Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation
How this is measured
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About Irvin Stern Foundation
- How much does Irvin Stern Foundation give?
- Irvin Stern Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $626,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 45 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Irvin Stern Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (17%), Education (12%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Irvin Stern Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($480k), Milagro Foundation Inc ($200k), Nourishing Hope ($170k).
- Does Irvin Stern Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Irvin Stern Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Irvin Stern Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund, Helen V Brach Foundation.
- Where is Irvin Stern Foundation based?
- Irvin Stern Foundation is based in FL.
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