How much did IRVIN STERN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of IRVIN STERN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

footpilsenchildrenpantrykidsfood

2021

violenceforwardchicago foodevanston

2022

pantrytownfoodstreetevanston

2023

outstreet

2024

learninghope

2025

children'sboca

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k3 grants · $22k
$10k–50k26 grants · $481k
$50k–250k2 grants · $140k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$13M

Total assets

Largest grants

JEWISH UNITED FUND OF CHICAGO$90,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$50,000
NOURISHING HOPE$40,000
FIGUEROA WU FAMILY$34,419
SWEET DREAM MAKERS$30,000
ERIE FAMILY HEALTHCARE$25,000
INSIDE OUT NETWORK$25,000
IN GLOBAL LEARNING DESIGN$25,000
UNITE AMERICA$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$25,000
EVANSTON SKOKIE DISTRICT 65$20,000
CHAPTER 510$20,000
PROJECT MOST$20,000
HOUSING PLUS SOLUTIONSINC$20,000
FOOD RECOVERY ORG$17,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.2M · 45 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +126% since the first grant, against +68% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.2M

$829k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+126%

+68%

Still filing today

42%

32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $207k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

JF
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY
5× · 2020–2024 · $228k · revenue +61%
NH
NOURISHING HOPE
5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +271%
RR
ROOT & REBOUND
4× · 2020–2023 · $150k · revenue +227%

Funded once

BC
BRADY CENTER FOR GUN VIOLENCE
one grant, 2021 · $30k
HO
HAVEN OF HOPE
one grant, 2022 · $30k
TD
THORN DIGITAL DEFENDERS OF CHILDREN
one grant, 2020 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Philabundance

To drive hunger from our communities today and end hunger for good.

Food & Nutrition

Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment

Food Connect Co

Bridging the gaps in our food system to end hunger, build health, and eliminate food waste.

Food & Nutrition

A Well-Fed World

A global hunger relief food security and climate advocacy organization providing grants and research to advance plant-based foods and farming.

Food & Nutrition

Food Bank for New York City

The mission of food bank for new york city is to end hunger by organizing food, information and support for community survival and dignity.

Community Improvement

Jumpstart Labs Inc

To develop, strengthen, and learn from nonprofit, philanthropic, public, as well as other projects, organizations, and networks that benefit society by advancing civic engagement, community-building, culture, education, religion, service,…

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Foodshot Global Inc

Working to transform the food system into one that is more healthy, sustainable, and equitable.

Food & Nutrition

Urban Harvest Inc

Urban Harvest encourages community, good nutrition, and sustainability through the education and support of organic gardening. Urban Harvest's vision is a healthier city where everyone has access to locally grown, nutritious food harvested…

Environment

Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc

Together, we nourish our neighbors and improve their lives one meal at a time.

Food & Nutrition

Food Forward Inc

Food forward(r) is one of the nation's largest independent urban produce recovery organizations.

Food & Nutrition

Interfaith Worker Justice

To improve wages, benefits, and working conditions for low wage earners in the United States.

Religion

Extrafood

To help end hunger and food waste in californias bay area.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Alchemy and the most unlike its peers is Hanley Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/45

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,520

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.

05the grantee network

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/42

Grantees still filing

34/42

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,085,419Philanthropy$290,500Crime & Legal$240,000Education$195,000Human Services$177,500Civil Rights$135,000Health$130,000

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.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Chicago Community TrustIL15.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation IRVIN STERN FOUNDATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FERNWOOD COVE FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 456372718 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FERNWOOD COVE FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 24% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Irvin Stern Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Irvin Stern Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

IRVIN STERN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Irvin Stern Foundation?

More from the funding graph

IRVIN STERN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Irvin Stern Foundation?

More from the funding graph