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Stein Family Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$216k
Granted FY2020
10
Grants FY2020
4
States reached
$172k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172020.

Religion$409kHuman Services$19kEducation$16kHousing & Shelter$9kPhilanthropy$6k
02FY2020 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k8 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $172k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$171,791
RABBINICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA$20,000
VARIOUS ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS$9,440
YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH$5,000
ROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HS$2,000
SOLOMAN SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL$2,000
Y U KOLLEL$1,800
CHABAD AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$1,800
PARDES$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1k → 22%RABBINICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $25k → 13%JOFA: $1k → 17%YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH: $6k → 28%OHEV ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%CHABAD AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%ROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HS: $2k → 8%SOLOMAN SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 14%AMR FRIENDS OF ERETZ HATZVI: $4k → 7%RABBINICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $20k → 13%JOFA: $1k → 17%YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH: $5k → 28%CHABAD AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%ROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HS: $2k → 8%SOLOMAN SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 14%AMR FRIENDS OF ERETZ HATZVI: $1k → 7%RABBINICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $15k → 13%YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH: $5k → 28%ROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HS: $2k → 8%SOLOMAN SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 14%AREYVUT INC: $4k → 7%RABBINICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $15k → 13%YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH: $5k → 28%ROCHELLE ZELL JEWISH HS: $2k → 8%SOLOMAN SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL: $2k → 14%PARDES: $3k → 28%AMR FRIENDS OF BEIT MIRASH HAREL: $3k → 7%PARDES: $3k → 28%SKOKIE VALLEY SYNAGOGUE: $172k → 14%PARDES: $3k → 28%SKOKIE VALLEY SYNAGOGUE: $42k → 14%YESHIVAT MAHARAT: $2k → 28%SKOKIE VALLEY SYNAGOGUE: $13k → 14%VARIOUS ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: $9k → 14%VARIOUS ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: $9k → 14%VARIOUS ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: $8k → 14%SKOKIE VALLEY SYNAGOGUE: $7k → 14%VARIOUS ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: $5k → 14%IDA CROWN JEWISH ACADEMY: $3k → 14%CONGREGATION OR TORAH: $2k → 14%IDA CROWN JEWISH ACADEMY: $2k → 14%JEWISH UNITED FUND: $4k → 14%Y U KOLLEL: $2k → 14%JEWISH UNITED FUND: $2k → 14%KEHILATH CHOVEVEI TZION: $2k → 14%THE ARK: $10k → 14%THE ARK: $5k → 14%THE ARK: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$435k · 16 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2020, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$435k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+60%

Still filing today

25%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
PhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureReligionOther

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2017–2020 · $234k
  • RS
    RABBINICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $75k
  • VO
    VARIOUS ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
    4× · 2017–2020 · $32k

Funded once

  • OI
    OHEV ISRAEL FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue +60%
  • AI
    AREYVUT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +82%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel
Philanthropy
2
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
3
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
4
University of Judaism Foundation
5
Ohr Yisrael Yeshiva Inc

Ohr Yisrael is a religious institution that provides religious services and instruction to Rabbis and community members.

Religion
6
Kollel Nefesh Hachaim Inc
Education
7
American Friends of Yeshiva Aish Hatorah
8
Sherit Isroel
9
Passaic Hebrew Institute

YBH of Passaic, a K-8 yeshiva in Passaic, New Jersey, emphasizes the primacy of Torah and Yiras Shomayim and offers a serious and comprehensive General Studies curriculum. YBH stresses the importance of middos tovos and acting with…

Education
10
Bais Yehuda Perach Rochel Foundation
Public Benefit
11
Tomchei Torah Inc

Religious Teaching

12
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshivat Maharat Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $233,667 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRABBINICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA — $75,000 · OtherRABBINICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICAVARIOUS ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS — $31,550 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZED RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONSTHE ARK — $18,818 · Other+13 more — $51,098 · Other+13 moreYESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST) — $21,000 · EducationYESHIVAT MAHARAT INC — $3,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,000 · EducationJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $6,360 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL — $2,500 · PhilanthropyYESHIVAT MAALE GILBOA USA INC — $2,000 · PhilanthropyOHEV ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC — $8,600 · Arts & CultureAREYVUT INC — $3,600 · Religion
Other$410,133Education$25,500Philanthropy$10,860Arts & Culture$8,600Religion$3,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetYESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST) — $21,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPARDES INCORPORATED — $9,700 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO — $6,360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAREYVUT INC — $3,600 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetYESHIVAT MAHARAT INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYESHIVAT MAALE GILBOA USA INC — $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 YESHIVAT CHOVEVEI TORAH RABBINICAL SCHOOL LTD (FORMERLY THE MEOROT INST)
  • Who funds PARDES INCORPORATED
  • Who funds OHEV ISRAEL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
  • Who funds AREYVUT INC
  • Who funds YESHIVAT MAHARAT INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT MIDRASH HAREL
  • Who funds YESHIVAT MAALE GILBOA USA INC
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · Jewish Communal Fund · The Kahan Family Foundation · Aviv Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Stein Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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