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M K Reichert Sternlicht Foundation at a glance

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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.

$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
88
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$995k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$5.3MEmployment$3.1MEducation$2.3MHealth$1.8MArts & Culture$1.2MInternational$1.2MCommunity Improvement$1.1MHousing & Shelter$485kOther$0
02FY2024 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $722k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$100M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
YALE UNIVERSITY$100,000
CAREER RESOURCES INC$100,000
EDESIA INC$100,000
FAIRFIELD COUNTYS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$70,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC$53,000
NEW PROFIT INC$50,000
ROUND HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCORPORATED$50,000
ONEGOAL$50,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$50,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CAPITAL INSTITUTE: $10k → 9%CAPITAL INSTITUTE: $5k → 9%SOCIAL ENTERPRISES TRUST INC: $23k → 11%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES INC: $1k → 17%MIAMI LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIR: $5k → 15%THORN: $25k → 14%WORLD CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES INC: $3k → 17%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES INC: $1k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC: $10k → 9%JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERVICES INC: $1k → 17%SOCIAL IMPACT PARTNERS INC: $25k → 9%SOCIAL IMPACT PARTNERS INC: $25k → 9%SOCIAL IMPACT PARTNERS INC: $10k → 9%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

ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
DC
AL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 31% of M K Reichert Sternlicht Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

M K Reichert Sternlicht Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 61 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
51

Total granted

$10M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+6%

Still filing today

89%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $383k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationInternationalHuman 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

  • CAREER RESOURCES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +68%
  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    3× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +35%
  • SH
    SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $820k · revenue +231%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -51%
  • CL
    COMMUNITY LEAGUE OF THE HEIGHTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +47%
  • BM
    BRUCE MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -78%
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
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
4
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
7
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humanity Forward Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

127 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. 127 of the 151 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
123/127
Grantees still filing
86/127
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

IMPACTASSETSINC: $3,278,000 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINCTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $1,006,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUNDHOPEWELL FUND: $300,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUNDFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $385,000 · Philanthropy+8 moreCAREER RESOURCES INC: $2,920,000 · EmploymentCAREER RESOURCES I…STRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $170,000 · EmploymentSTRIVE INTERNATION…BROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,104,638 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSI…NEW PROFIT INC: $750,000 · Community ImprovementNEW PROFIT INCCOMMUNITY LEAGUE OF THE HEIGHTS INC: $150,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY LEAG…ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $145,000 · Community ImprovementENTERPRISE COM…CHICAGO CARES INC: $110,000 · Community Improvement+8 more: $189,000 · Community Improvement+8 moreONEGOAL: $620,000 · OtherONEGOALNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UN: $414,500 · OtherNATIONAL TRUST FOR HIS…SEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC: $360,000 · OtherSEVENTH REGIMENT ARMOR…EDESIA INC: $200,000 · OtherEDESIA INCISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $160,000 · Other+88 more: $1,927,650 · Other+88 moreBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000,000 · HealthBREAKTHROU…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $342,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…Trust Women Foundation Inc: $80,000 · HealthTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $60,000 · Health+7 more: $194,000 · Health+7 moreSave The Children Federation Inc: $500,000 · InternationalACUMEN FUND INC: $250,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $200,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $150,000 · InternationalEisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated: $100,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $55,000 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · International+1 more: $40,000 · InternationalSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $820,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $110,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $73,000 · Education+9 more: $120,000 · Education
Philanthropy$5,144,000Employment$3,090,000Community Improvement$2,448,638Other$3,682,150Health$1,676,000International$1,345,000Education$1,123,000

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 budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $3,278,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCAREER RESOURCES INC: $2,920,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,104,638 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $1,006,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $820,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC: $750,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $500,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEVENTH REGIMENT ARMORY CONSERVANCY INC: $360,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $342,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $300,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEDESIA INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSTRIVE INTERNATIONAL INC: $170,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $160,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEAGUE OF THE HEIGHTS INC: $150,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $145,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC: $110,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated: $100,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $86,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNCHARTED: $85,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTrust Women Foundation Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $73,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSocial Impact Partners Inc: $60,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ALYN HOSPITALINC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTRUST NEIGHBORHOODS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetROUND HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding America: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $46,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WOW CENTER INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGREENWICH RIDING & TRAILS ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 over 5y, 7.2% 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.

The Barry and Mimi St…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Fairfield County's Co…Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…Silicon Valley Commun…The Ford FoundationNational Philanthropi…The Tammy and Jay Lev…The John L and Sue An…Royce Family Fund IncPeoples United Commun…
The Barry and Mimi Sternlicht FoundationDE32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 M K Reichert Sternlicht Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M K Reichert Sternlicht Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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Find your warmest path to M K Reichert Sternlicht Foundation 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 151 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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