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Sidney Stern Memorial Fund Tr

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.

$69k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
9%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$991k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Sidney Stern Memorial Fund Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$62k8%
FY202411$47k9%
FY202310$38k0%
FY202211$38k0%
FY202111$40k9%
FY202011$37k9%
FY201912$43k17%
FY201812$42kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$124kHuman Services$104kAnimals$69kPhilanthropy$42kEnvironment$33kEducation$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($179k), not named here.

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About Sidney Stern Memorial Fund Tr

How much does Sidney Stern Memorial Fund Tr give?
Sidney Stern Memorial Fund Tr reported 14 grants totaling $69,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Sidney Stern Memorial Fund Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (33%), Human Services (27%), Animals (18%).
Who are Sidney Stern Memorial Fund Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Braille Institute of America Inc ($36k), My Stuff Bags Foundation ($33k), March of Dimes Inc ($32k).
Does Sidney Stern Memorial Fund Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sidney Stern Memorial Fund Tr 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.
Where is Sidney Stern Memorial Fund Tr based?
Sidney Stern Memorial Fund Tr is based in NJ.

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 20 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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