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Salomon Stern 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $396k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $816k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF HAWAII | $100,000 |
| THE CHEDER | $77,520 |
| SLABODKA YESHIVA | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $66,200 |
| FREEHOLD KOLLEL INC | $65,700 |
| OHR HATORAH | $64,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $61,000 |
| TALMUDICAL YESHIVA OF PHILADELPHIA | $56,500 |
| KOLLEL EMEK HALACHA | $50,001 |
| YESHIVA HEICHAL HATORAH | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| ZICHRON ELIYAHU | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| ZICHRON MATTEL | $40,000 |
| ORAYSA | $36,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $223k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
32 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $807k 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
- AOALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KNESSETH ISRAEL OF SLABODKA KOWNA2× · 2024–2025 · $151k · revenue +50%
- ZMZichron Mattel Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $111k · revenue +323%
- RRRELIEF RESOURCES INC4× · 2020–2023 · $42k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- TSTIFERES SHLOMO YOSEFone grant, 2024 · $100k
- TCTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFEone grant, 2022 · $50k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INCone grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue 0%
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.
Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations
Religious School
Religious Teaching
To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.
To provide synagogue services to the local community and torah study for american students in israel.
To foster, promote and advance theological torah study, charity, and practice of orthodox judaism worldwide.
Provide financial assistance to torah and talmudic scholars, as well as to other needy individuals and other organizations that work to promote these purposes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iyun Haparsha Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nesivos Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 104 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 ALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KNESSETH ISRAEL OF SLABODKA KOWNA ↗
- Who funds Zichron Mattel Inc ↗
- Who funds ZICHRON ELIYAHU INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA HEICHAL HATORAH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INC ↗
- Who funds RELIEF RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds ORAYSA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC ↗
- Who funds KEREN ZICHRON MOSHE TRUST ↗
- Who funds IYUN HAPARSHA 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 Ojc Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jack Adjmi Family Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Donors Fund Inc · The Sorala Foundation · Jewish Federation of Cleveland · Joseph Chehebar Family Foundation · The Ganger Foundation Inc · Zichron Btz Tzedakah Foundation · The Basch Family 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 Salomon Stern 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.
- Cheder Toras Zev — 22% 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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