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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$1.8MEducation$707kHuman Services$670kPhilanthropy$44kHealth$42kYouth Development$30kInternational$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $396k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $816k
$25,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
ZICHRON ELIYAHU$50,000
YESHIVA HEICHAL HATORAH$50,000
ZICHRON MATTEL$40,000
ORAYSA$36,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AREIVIM INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%KEREN ZICHRON MOSHE: $7k → 20%AVIGDORS HELPING HAND: $5k → 13%KEREN ZICHRON MOSHE: $7k → 20%KEREN ZICHRON MOSHE: $6k → 20%KEREN ZICHRON MOSHE: $5k → 20%KEREN ZICHRON MOSHE: $5k → 20%KEREN ZICHRON MOSHE: $5k → 20%ZICHRON MATTEL: $40k → 11%RELIEF RESOURCES: $11k → 20%LINKS FAMILY: $10k → 20%ZICHRON MATTEL: $17k → 11%RELIEF RESOURCES: $15k → 11%ZICHRON MATTEL: $14k → 11%ZICHRON MATTEL: $14k → 11%ZICHRON MATTEL: $10k → 11%RELIEF RESOURCES: $10k → 11%ZICHRON MATTEL: $6k → 11%ZICHRON MATTEL: $6k → 11%RELIEF: $6k → 11%ZICHRON MATTEL: $5k → 11%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

WA
NY
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
KS
TN
HI
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 32 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
47

Total granted

$1.8M
$660k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+25%

Still filing today

19%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $807k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • AO
    ALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KNESSETH ISRAEL OF SLABODKA KOWNA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $151k · revenue +50%
  • ZM
    Zichron Mattel Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $111k · revenue +323%
  • RR
    RELIEF RESOURCES INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $42k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • TS
    TIFERES SHLOMO YOSEF
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • TC
    THE CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INC
    one grant, 2024 · $45k · revenue 0%
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
Zichron Meshilem Feish Inc

Provides finacial assistance to needy individuals and to religious, charitable organizations

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2
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
3
Zohar Hatorah Inc

Religious School

Religion
4
Zicron Eliyahu Inc
—
5
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

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6
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
7
Yeshiva Toras Chaim of Greater Miami Inc

To operate a religious school for high school and post high school students.

Education
8
Zeev Hatorah Inc

To provide synagogue services to the local community and torah study for american students in israel.

Religion
9
Mosdos Hatorah Vhachesed of Pnei Menachem Inc

To foster, promote and advance theological torah study, charity, and practice of orthodox judaism worldwide.

Philanthropy
10
Zichron Chaim Avraham Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation
Philanthropy
12
Mifal Tzedaka Vchesed Chasdei Aharo N Inc

Provide financial assistance to torah and talmudic scholars, as well as to other needy individuals and other organizations that work to promote these purposes.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iyun Haparsha Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 104 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONTINUUM CARE HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $358,000 · OtherCONTINUUM CARE HOSPICE FOUNDATIONYESHIVA SHOLOM SHACHNA: $231,110 · OtherYESHIVA SHOLOM SHACHNAALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KNESSETH ISRAEL OF SLABODKA KOWNA: $150,500 · OtherALUMNI OF THE RABBINICAL COLLEGE KNESSETH ISRAEL OF SLABODKA KOWNACHABAD LUBAVITCH OF HAWAII: $100,000 · OtherTIFERES SHLOMO YOSEF: $100,000 · Other+79 more: $1,793,757 · Other+79 moreZichron Mattel Inc: $111,360 · Human ServicesRELIEF RESOURCES INC: $41,575 · Human ServicesKEREN ZICHRON MOSHE TRUST: $34,580 · Human ServicesAREIVIM INSTITUTE: $20,000 · Human ServicesLinks Family Inc: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesYESHIVA HEICHAL HATORAH INC: $50,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INC: $45,000 · EducationORAYSA INC: $36,000 · EducationCHEDER TORAS ZEV: $9,000 · EducationZICHRON ELIYAHU INC: $86,500 · ReligionIYUN HAPARSHA INC: $25,000 · ReligionTHE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyEZRA L'KALLAH: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPaamonim: $8,700 · PhilanthropyYESHIVAS D'VAR TORAH INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyNESIVOS INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentANCHOR MENTORING INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentHATZALAH SOUTH FLORIDA EMERGENCY MEDCIAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterKEREN TORAH VCHESED: $5,000 · International
Other$2,733,367Human Services$222,515Education$140,000Religion$111,500Philanthropy$59,700Youth Development$30,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000International$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetZichron Mattel Inc: $111,360 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetZICHRON ELIYAHU INC: $86,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF DAAS AHARON INC: $45,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRELIEF RESOURCES INC: $41,575 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FLATBUSH COMMUNITY FUND INC co BERNATH & ROSENBERG PC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKEREN ZICHRON MOSHE TRUST: $34,580 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetNESIVOS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetANCHOR MENTORING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEZRA L'KALLAH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHEDER TORAS ZEV: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPaamonim: $8,700 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKEREN TORAH VCHESED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAVIGDORS HELPING HAND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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 Ojc FundJewish Communal FundJewish Community Foun…Jack Adjmi Family Fou…Associated Jewish Cha…Donors Fund IncThe Sorala FoundationJewish Federation of …Joseph Chehebar Famil…The Ganger Foundation…Zichron Btz Tzedakah …The Basch Family Foun…
The Ojc FundNY50.5× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Salomon Stern Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Salomon Stern Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Cheder Toras Zev: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Salomon Stern Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Salomon Stern 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 104 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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