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Lawrence and Rebecca 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.

$64k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of LAWRENCE AND REBECCA STERN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$1,800
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TEMPLE BETH AM$25,200
ADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION$15,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$5,000
MYCLINIC$5,000
ADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION$5,000
DYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL$1,800
CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK$1,800
THE RED TENT FUND$1,800
TIKVA CHILDREN'S HOME$1,800
ADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION$1,040
MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC$833
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JAA - JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $125k → 11%JEWISH ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE OPTIONS: $5k → 13%JEWISH CHILDREN'S HOME OF RI: $2k → 7%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%JEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING: $125k → 11%THE RED TENT FUND: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Lawrence and Rebecca Stern Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Lawrence and Rebecca Stern Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 23 repeat orgs$307k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
29

Total granted

$1.2M
$298k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+20%

Still filing today

83%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsArts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • AC
    ADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $227k · revenue +197%
  • SO
    SAVE ONE LIFE INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $93k · revenue +78%
  • HI
    Herizon Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $163k
  • CF
    COPD FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +34%
  • PT
    PHILANTHROPY TANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +31%

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.

1
American Israel Public Affairs Committee

To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.

International
2
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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3
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
4
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
5
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
6
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
7
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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8
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
9
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
10
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
11
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
12
Avodah the Jewish Service Corps Inc

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.

Community Improvement

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 International Rescue Committee Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyJewish Community Organizati…Health Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsLgbtq+ Community SupportPregnancy Support ServicesFood Banks and Pantries
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 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%59%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/54
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,511

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

53 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. 53 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
31/53
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TEMPLE BETH AM — $263,500 · OtherTEMPLE BETH AMIndividual grant recipient — $162,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTEMPLE BETH EL — $135,000 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELUPPER ST CLAIR SCHOOL DISTRICT — $110,000 · OtherUPPER ST CLAIR SCHOOL DISTRICTALAGILLE SYNDROME ALLIANCE — $30,000 · Other+19 more — $59,652 · Other+19 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $228,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PI…ADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC — $226,870 · PhilanthropyADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INCPHILANTHROPY TANK INC — $25,250 · Philanthropy+6 more — $17,978 · PhilanthropyJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING — $250,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH ASSOCIATI…+4 more — $15,942 · Human Services+4 moreSAVE ONE LIFE INC — $93,360 · HealthSAVE ONE L…COPD FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · HealthCOPD FOUND…IMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthIMMUNE DEF…+5 more — $11,500 · Health+5 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $19,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $4,000 · InternationalSTUDENT DIPLOMACY CORPS INC — $3,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,800 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $1,800 · InternationalMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC — $17,835 · Arts & CultureTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $6,800 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INC — $2,900 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $1,800 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $350 · Arts & CultureANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $17,400 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC — $2,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $1,800 · Civil RightsLife After Hate Inc — $1,000 · Civil Rights
Other$760,652Philanthropy$498,098Human Services$265,942Health$164,860International$30,600Arts & Culture$29,685Civil Rights$26,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJEWISH ASSOCIATION ON AGING — $250,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $228,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetADMIRALS COVE FOUNDATION INC — $226,870 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetSAVE ONE LIFE INC — $93,360 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCOPD FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPHILANTHROPY TANK INC — $25,250 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetHerizon Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC — $17,835 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $17,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetIMMUNE DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION — $6,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTIKVA CORP — $5,598 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD — $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Adoption and Foster Care Options Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITHFAMILYCOM INC — $4,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Childrens Home of RI Inc — $4,142 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENT DIPLOMACY CORPS INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $2,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA GIVES INC — $2,890 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS — $2,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN JUSTICE CENTER — $2,690 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUS FRIENDS OF DROR ISRAEL INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMEINU OUR PEOPLE INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRALLY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLife After Hate Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARMORY ART CENTER INC — $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $343 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLEDGELING FOUNDATION — $288 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE — $271 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Jewish Federation…Jewish Federation of …Admirals Cove Foundat…Community Foundation …Combined Jewish Phila…Jewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…AbbVie FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…
The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington IncMD15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Admirals Cove Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation

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 Lawrence and Rebecca 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
  • The Armory Art Center Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Lawrence and Rebecca Stern Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lawrence and Rebecca 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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