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Leo & Marjorie Stern Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$196k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2021
14%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2024
$196,301
Largest grant, FY2024
$196,301
Organizations funded a year
2 to 11
FY2018 to FY2021
States reached, FY2024
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 14% of the organizations Leo & Marjorie Stern Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
Arts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving2$196k50%
FY20217$9k14%
FY20202$3k0%
FY20199$10k22%
FY201811$15kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$197kArts & Culture$16kHealth$10kCivil Rights$8kScience & Tech$2kEnvironment$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Trustees of Princeton University$197,30130%
Anti-Defamation League$8,25030%
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc$6,00030%
Phoenix Chamber Music Society$5,10011%
Arizona Opera Company$3,75020%
CLL Global Research Foundation$2,50020%
Phoenix Art Museum$2,14120%
Arizona Theatre Company$1,10020%
Desert Botanical Garden Inc$1,00010%
International Myeloma Foundation$30030%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Leo & Marjorie Stern Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $197,301 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $8,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Chamber Music Society: $5,100 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetArizona Opera Company: $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLL Global Research Foundation: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Art Museum: $2,141 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Theatre Company: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDesert Botanical Garden Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Myeloma Foundation: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Leo & Marjorie Stern Foundation

How much does Leo & Marjorie Stern Foundation give?
Leo & Marjorie Stern Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $196,426 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2021.
What does Leo & Marjorie Stern Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (84%), Arts & Culture (7%), Health (4%).
Who are Leo & Marjorie Stern Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The Trustees of Princeton University ($197k), Anti-Defamation League ($8k), The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc ($6k).
Does Leo & Marjorie Stern Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leo & Marjorie Stern Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Leo & Marjorie Stern Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Leo & Marjorie Stern Foundation based?
Leo & Marjorie Stern Foundation is based in AZ.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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