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Louis and Bessie Stein Foundation Susan L Wenger President

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.

$478k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Science & Tech$850kHealth$774kReligion$563kRecreation & Sports$234kCivil Rights$232kEducation$193kHuman Services$166kPhilanthropy$96kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $399k
$1,230
Median grant
8
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRONX LACROSSE$100,000
AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY$100,000
HADASSAH$99,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION$50,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$50,000
PHILADELPHIA RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$21,140
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$20,000
JEWISH FEDERATION$15,000
ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND$5,000
AZ HOUSE FOUNDATION$3,090
MAIN LINE REFORM TEMPLE$2,693
JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES$2,500
CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION$1,253
MAGICAL MILA FOUNDATION$1,230
PARENTPROJECT MD$1,119
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 (FY20–25, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $774 → 6%FRIENDS OF YASHAR LACHAYAL: $500 → 8%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $520 → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $516 → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $516 → 6%ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $516 → 6%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS: $1k → 17%ISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $100 → 17%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 22%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3k → 7%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $25k → 22%WAVERLY HEIGHTS LTD: $4k → 7%WAVERLY HEIGHTS LTD: $1k → 7%WAVERLY HEIGHTS LTD: $825 → 7%WAVERLY HEIGHTS LTD: $675 → 7%WAVERLY HEIGHTS LTD: $650 → 7%WAVERLY HEIGHTS LTD: $375 → 7%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

IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
MO
VA
DC
AL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 34 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
36

Total granted

$1.9M
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+40%

Still filing today

71%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $300k · revenue +30%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    3× · 2020–2022 · $250k · revenue +59%
  • BL
    BRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA
    6× · 2020–2025 · $234k · revenue +198%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN
    one grant, 2020 · $55k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
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
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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2
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

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

International
3
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra

To promote partnership and coexistence among jewish and arab citizens of israel by providing support for integrated schools and providing funding for and assisting in program development in connection with israeli nonprofits with similar…

International
4
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
5
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
6
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
7
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
8
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
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
Sherit Isroel
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11
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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12
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Philadelphia Delaware and Susquehanna Valley; the most unlike its peers is Volunteer Medical Serv Corps of Lm & Nar. 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

42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
33/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HADASSAH: $551,527 · OtherHADASSAHRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $136,340 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF…JEWISH FEDERATION: $60,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATIONJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN: $55,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDRENUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL: $50,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $35,000 · Other+43 more: $73,617 · Other+43 moreAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $850,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION …+3 more: $8,900 · InternationalTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $300,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPI…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $250,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPI…+10 more: $26,697 · HealthBRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA: $233,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $370 · Recreation & SportsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $225,057 · Civil RightsTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $190,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $77,500 · Human ServicesISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $25,000 · Human ServicesWAVERLY HEIGHTS: $7,525 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ELWYN: $4,010 · Human Services+3 more: $4,442 · Human Services
Other$961,484International$858,900Health$576,697Recreation & Sports$233,870Civil Rights$225,057Education$192,000Human Services$118,477

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 budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $850,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $250,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA: $233,500 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $225,057 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $190,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE PHILADELPHIA REGION: $136,340 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH: $77,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWAVERLY HEIGHTS: $7,525 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAGICAL MILA FOUNDATION: $6,486 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAZ HOUSE FOUNDATION: $5,648 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY: $5,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INDEPENDENCE REGION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YAD SARAH INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL ELWYN: $4,010 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,842 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGBSCIDP FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,773 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $1,543 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL SPECIAL KIDS FUND: $1,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPhilabundance: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC: $800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Yashar L'Chayal Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKAISERMAN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADAM R SPECTOR FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER MEDICAL SERV CORPS OF LM & NAR: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $100 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.

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.

Jewish Federation of …Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Renaissance Charitabl…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…American Endowment Fo…
Jewish Federation of Greater PhiladelphiaPA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment 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 Susan L Wenger President funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louis and Bessie Stein Foundation Susan L Wenger President. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    5report 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 Susan L Wenger President?

    Find your warmest path to Louis and Bessie Stein Foundation Susan L Wenger President 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 77 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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