Florida · Private foundation
Mervyn H & Leslie D Sternberg Foundation
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.
- $19k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $308k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Mervyn H & Leslie D Sternberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $14k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $15k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $23k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $10k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $3k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $5k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $15k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $14k | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Papanicolaou Corps for Cancer Research Inc | $13,542 | 9 | 0% |
| Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc | $10,850 | 7 | 0% |
| Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $10,449 | 8 | 0% |
| Great Lakes Center for the Arts | $8,914 | 4 | 0% |
| Harbor Springs Lyric Theatre | $7,140 | 6 | 1% |
| Israel Tennis Centers Foundation Inc | $6,650 | 4 | 0% |
| Miami City Ballet Inc | $6,250 | 4 | 0% |
| Jewish Association for Residential Care Inc | $5,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Wick Theatre & Costume Museum Inc | $5,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mervyn H & Leslie D Sternberg Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Offield Family Foundation · Frey Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About Mervyn H & Leslie D Sternberg Foundation
- How much does Mervyn H & Leslie D Sternberg Foundation give?
- Mervyn H & Leslie D Sternberg Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $19,131 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mervyn H & Leslie D Sternberg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), Health (28%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are Mervyn H & Leslie D Sternberg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Papanicolaou Corps for Cancer Research Inc ($14k), Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ($11k), Raymond F Kravis Center for the Performing Arts Inc ($10k).
- Does Mervyn H & Leslie D Sternberg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mervyn H & Leslie D Sternberg 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 Mervyn H & Leslie D Sternberg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Offield Family Foundation.
- Where is Mervyn H & Leslie D Sternberg Foundation based?
- Mervyn H & Leslie D Sternberg Foundation is based in FL.
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