· Private foundation
Jerome L Stern Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $484k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $360k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| OHR TORAH STONE | $60,000 |
| ADI ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIB COMMITTEE | $50,000 |
| LINCOLN SQUARE SYNAGOGUE | $49,550 |
| NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE IPO | $35,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM | $34,500 |
| HADAR INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| YAD YISRAEL | $30,000 |
| ISRAEL TENNIS & EDUCATION CENTERS | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE HAMPTON SYNAGOGUE | $25,000 |
| THE ROSS SCHOOL | $20,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 16 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $532k · revenue +130%
- OTOhr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel9× · 2017–2025 · $395k · revenue +96%
- NMNew Museum of Contemporary Art9× · 2017–2025 · $193k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- COCHRONICLE OF PEOPLE DBAone grant, 2022 · $25k
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +24%- TLTORAH LIVEone grant, 2024 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Artis is an independent nonprofit organization that supports contemporary artists from israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social and political questions to inspire reflection and debate. www.artis.art
Yivo's mission is to study the thousand-year history of jewish life in eastern europe and russia in all its aspects: language, history, religion, folkways and material culture. yivo's archive and library preserves a significant collection…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
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 national center for jewish film is a unique, independent nonprofit motion picture archive, distributor, resource center and exhibitor. ncjf's ongoing mission is the collection, preservation and exhibition of films with artistic and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Neue Galerie New York. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
112 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 112 of the 187 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Ohr Torah Stone Institutions of Israel ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YAD YISROEL ↗
- Who funds New Museum of Contemporary Art ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL TENNIS CENTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF OGEN INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STORAHTELLING LAB SHUL INC ↗
- Who funds BELEV ECHAD INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BATSHEVA DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Adi Israel Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GOOD COUNSEL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Nash Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Domansky Family Foundation Inc · The Harvey & Gloria Kaylie Foundation Inc · The Gottesman Fund · The Cowles Charitable Trust
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 organization Jerome L Stern Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
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 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.