· Private foundation
Lawrence Z & Jacqueline a Stern Fdn
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 $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC | $25,000 |
| EL RIO HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION OF NEW ZEALAND INC | $15,000 |
| PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| JAMES MADISON HS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
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 US giving — 65% of grant dollars ($442k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 35% that went abroad ($242k) is mapped below.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
Beyond the US — 35% of all-years giving ($242k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- CFCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +127%
- VVisionGift7× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +80%
University of Arizona Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- MDMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2017 · $39k
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +22%- JMJAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +369%
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.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The ama foundation brings together physicians and communities to improve our nation's health.
To develop and provide financial support for optometric research and education.
To unite donors' passions with the university of hawai'i's (uh) aspirations by raising philanthropic support and managing investments to benefit uh, the people of hawai'i and our future generations.
Cultivate lifelong connections, strengthen commitment to the university and inspire advocacy, engagement and giving.
The university of montana foundation inspires philanthropic support to enhance excellence and opportunity at the university of montana.
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
Advance the university through fostering relationships, inspiring investment and stewardship.
Create powerful engagements and partnerships that lead to increased philanthropy, investment, innovation, and support for the university of new mexico.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and the most unlike its peers is James Madison High School Alumni Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds VisionGift ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds EL RIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Catching the Dream ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lawrence Z & Jacqueline a Stern Fdn 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.
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.