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Louis and Bessie Stein Foundation Fund #2 at a glance

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Louis and Bessie Stein Foundation Fund #2

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$390k
Granted FY2026still arriving
4
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$263k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.8MEducation$876kReligion$786kArts & Culture$722kHealth$523kHuman Services$128kInternational$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$250Other$0
02FY2026 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k2 grants · $3k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
  • $250k+1 grant · $263k
$125,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM$262,642
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$125,000
CONGREGATION ARIEL$2,000
WELLSPRING LIVING$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
RI
MO
MD
DE
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 25 repeat orgs$434k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2026, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
28

Total granted

$3.1M
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
0%

Still filing today

60%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalReligionHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WS
    WALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $663k · revenue +3%
  • TU
    Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    8× · 2017–2025 · $550k · revenue +5%
  • TB
    THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $125k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • AS
    ABRAMSON SENIOR CARE
    one grant, 2025 · $30k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
2
Philadelphia University

The organization is an affiliate within thomas jefferson university/jefferson health; a comprehensive professional university and tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system ("system"), with a tripartite mission of education, research…

Education
3
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…

Arts & Culture
4
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
5
Upmc Group

Healthcare, education, and research

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6
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
7
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Saint Joseph's University

As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…

Education
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bryn Mawr Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 58 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $3,747,243 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM+1 more: $21,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $722,000 · OtherJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMI…PENN MEDICINE: $264,250 · OtherPENN MEDICINEVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $262,642 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE END…ABRAHAM SENIOR CARE: $92,000 · OtherABRAHAM SENIOR CARE+34 more: $196,730 · Other+34 moreTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $550,200 · EducationTemple Univer…FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL: $126,000 · EducationFRIENDS SELEC…DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $100,100 · EducationDREXEL UNIVER…THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $95,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFER…+1 more: $2,000 · EducationWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION: $662,500 · Arts & CultureWALNUT STR…Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $19,100 · Arts & CultureDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $245,000 · HealthTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $125,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $25,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,500 · InternationalWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesWellspring Living Inc: $1,000 · Religion
Philanthropy$3,768,243Other$1,537,622Education$873,300Arts & Culture$706,600Health$372,000International$26,500Human Services$2,000Religion$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $3,747,243 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION: $662,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $550,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $245,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL: $126,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $100,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $95,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhiladelphia Jewish Archives Center: $25,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJewish Federation of Greater Houston: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA SHARE USA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUDINGTON LIBRARY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MERION FIRE COMPANY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds WALNUT STREET THEATRE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS SELECT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE BRYN MAWR HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds BRYN MAWR THEATRE FILM INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Houston ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA SHARE USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LUDINGTON LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds WHYY INC ↗

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.

Gilroy and Lillian P …Hamilton Family Found…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable FoundationPA15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gilroy and Lillian P Roberts Charitable Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Louis and Bessie Stein Foundation Fund #2 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis and Bessie Stein Foundation Fund #2. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Louis and Bessie Stein Foundation Fund #2?

Find your warmest path to Louis and Bessie Stein Foundation Fund #2 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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