· Private foundation
Irvin Stern Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $615k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| BONADFIDE INC | $30,000 |
| BROOKLYN BOATWORKS | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LATET HUMANITARIAN AID INC | $30,000 |
| INGLOBAL | $30,000 |
| HOUSING PLUS | $30,000 |
| BAY AREA HYBRID COLLEGE INITIATIVE | $30,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY | $30,000 |
| PAPER FIG FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $25,000 |
| INSIDE OUT NETWORK | $25,000 |
| ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE | $25,000 |
| ANN AND ROBERT H LURIE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN -JEWISH LIFE & ANTISEMITISM | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $303k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 40 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $341k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO5× · 2020–2024 · $480k · revenue +13%
- MFMILAGRO FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +51%
- NHNOURISHING HOPE5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- HOHAVEN OF HOPEone grant, 2022 · $30k
- TDTHORN DIGITAL DEFENDERS OF CHILDRENone grant, 2020 · $30k
- SDSWEET DREAM MAKERSone grant, 2024 · $30k
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.
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,…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.
To promote dietary changes to build a healthy, equitable, humane, and environmentally-sustainable food system.
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,…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…
Avodah develops lifelong social justice leaders whose work is informed by jewish values and who inspire the jewish community to work toward a more just and equitable world.
To organize pro-israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy americans to promote us policies that embody our deeply held jewish and democratic values and that help secure the state of israel as a democratic homeland for the jewish people.
Upwardly global removes employment barriers for immigrant, refugee, and asylee professionals while advancing the inclusion of their skills into the u.s. economy.
To realize a more equitable and inclusive economy by advancing innovative workforce solutions that equip local residents with the skills and resources to access high-growth employment opportunities in tech and other rapidly growing fields…
Ijc's mission is to recruit, train, and populate the immigration field with the highest quality legal advocates to create a new generation of leaders with a lifelong commitment to immigrant justice.
How this is measured
72 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. 72 of the 131 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 UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MILAGRO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISHING HOPE ↗
- Who funds ROOT & REBOUND ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOATWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School ↗
- Who funds Housing Plus Solutions Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MOST INC ↗
- Who funds Inside Out Network Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ACCESS COALITION ↗
- Who funds UNITE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PILOT LIGHT ↗
- Who funds WE EVANSTON ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FIGUEROA WU FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Prison Yoga Project Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds Boys Town Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds The Denver Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds INGLOBAL ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Irvin Stern Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Irvin Stern Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Out in the Open Inc: 25% of income from government
- Boca Ballet Theatre Company: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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