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M K Reichert Sternlicht 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $722k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMPACTASSETS INC | $995,000 |
| CAREER RESOURCES INC | $250,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $200,000 |
| GIVING BACK FUND INC | $185,000 |
| ONEGOAL | $150,000 |
| SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC | $125,000 |
| CAREER RESOURCES INC | $100,000 |
| EDESIA INC | $100,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| FAIRFIELD COUNTYS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $70,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC | $53,000 |
| STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC | $50,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $50,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC | $50,000 |
| NEW PROFIT INC | $50,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY20–24, $168k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 31% of M K Reichert Sternlicht Foundation’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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $383k 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
CAREER RESOURCES INC3× · 2022–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +68%- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D3× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +35%
- SHSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC6× · 2017–2024 · $820k · revenue +231%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -51%
- CLCOMMUNITY LEAGUE OF THE HEIGHTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +47%
- BMBRUCE MUSEUM INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -78%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humanity Forward Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
127 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. 127 of the 151 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 IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds CAREER RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW PROFIT INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EDESIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEAGUE OF THE HEIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CARES INC ↗
- Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Goodnation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNCHARTED ↗
- Who funds Trust Women Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Social Impact Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Barry and Mimi Sternlicht Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Tammy and Jay Levine Foundation Inc · The John L and Sue Ann Weinberg Foundation · Royce Family Fund Inc · Peoples United Community 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 M K Reichert Sternlicht Foundation 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.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
- Career Resources Inc — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greenwich Art Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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