· Private foundation
Russell and Jane Stern Charitable 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $196k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $413k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIAS | $100,000 |
| PROJECT LIFT | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY | $60,000 |
| SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY | $53,000 |
| THE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC | $50,000 |
| COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY | $50,000 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE | $26,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LONG ISLAND | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC INC | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| GLEN COVE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AT LINCOLN HOUSE | $25,000 |
| SAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE BLUE CARD | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC MARTIN HEALTH FOUNDATION BARSTOW-REED SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $10,000 |
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, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 7 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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
- NHNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $800k · revenue +3%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · $150k · revenue +74%
- PLPROJECT LIFT INC5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- TUThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museumone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -7%
- COCONGREGATION OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL - RESETTLEMENT FUNDone grant, 2022 · $20k
- BCBASSER CENTER FOUNDATION FOR BRCA ABRAMSON CANCER CENTERone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
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.
The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.
To provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching, research, charity care and financial responsibility.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Martin County and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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 35 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 53 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 NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT PETER'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SAILFISH POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL ON AGING OF MARTIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE CARD INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GLEN COVE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AT LINCOLN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds PORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANDS POINT GOLF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF PORT WASHINGTON NY INC ↗
- Who funds Library Foundation of Martin County ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE PORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE KEW-FOREST SCHOOL 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 Community Foundation - Martin / St Lucie Inc · Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation · Murray Hazan Family Foundation · The Pamela and Laurence Tarica Foundation · Hobe Sound Community Chest Inc · The Fine Foundation · Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Russell and Jane Stern Charitable 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Saint Peter's University — 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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