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Stemberg Thomas G Char Fnd Attn Noreen Snow Bbh

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.

$443k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$210,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 28
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$6.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Stemberg Thomas G Char Fnd Attn Noreen Snow Bbh funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEnvironmentHealthInternationalOther
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
FY2024still arriving21$413k10%
FY202321$378k14%
FY202228$527k29%
FY202122$361k9%
FY202021$328k19%
FY201922$337k55%
FY201811$340k18%
FY201713$338kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.6MEducation$969kHealth$288kYouth Development$75kPhilanthropy$58kEnvironment$57kScience & Tech$16kEmployment$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($446k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stemberg Thomas G Char Fnd Attn Noreen Snow Bbh supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc: $1,252,400 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetPerkins School for the Blind: $364,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $207,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cambridge School of Weston Inc: $160,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: $75,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetElon University: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Beaver Country Day School Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBrookline Music School Inc: $35,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCatholic Schools Foundation Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund Inc: $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEmerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: $15,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Country Club Employee Education Fund Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Harvard Independent Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetBuzzards Bay Coalition: $11,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Carroll School: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Japan Society of Boston Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNortheast Arc Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrookline Food Pantry Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFusion Academy Scholarship Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTrustees of the College of the Holy Cross: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSteps to Success Inc: $7,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetOur Sisters School: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Repertory Theatre Co Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Ballet Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRar-Ma Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEllen M Gifford Sheltering Home Co: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA22× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About Stemberg Thomas G Char Fnd Attn Noreen Snow Bbh

How much does Stemberg Thomas G Char Fnd Attn Noreen Snow Bbh give?
Stemberg Thomas G Char Fnd Attn Noreen Snow Bbh reported 23 grants totaling $442,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Stemberg Thomas G Char Fnd Attn Noreen Snow Bbh fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (51%), Education (31%), Health (9%).
Who are Stemberg Thomas G Char Fnd Attn Noreen Snow Bbh's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc ($1.3M), Perkins School for the Blind ($364k), Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc ($207k).
Does Stemberg Thomas G Char Fnd Attn Noreen Snow Bbh fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Stemberg Thomas G Char Fnd Attn Noreen Snow Bbh 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Stemberg Thomas G Char Fnd Attn Noreen Snow Bbh?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
Where is Stemberg Thomas G Char Fnd Attn Noreen Snow Bbh based?
Stemberg Thomas G Char Fnd Attn Noreen Snow Bbh is based in MA.

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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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