Illinois · Private foundation
Sterling Fund and Fellowship Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,795
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $295k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Sterling Fund and Fellowship Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 19 | $16k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $15k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $17k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $17k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $15k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $16k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $16k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fair Field Productions | $14,333 | 6 | n/a |
| The Olana Partnership | $12,353 | 8 | 0% |
| Operation Unite New York Inc | $10,575 | 8 | 2% |
| Fisher House Foundation Inc | $9,687 | 6 | 0% |
| American Friends Service Committee | $7,267 | 8 | n/a |
| Lakes Region Food Pantry Inc | $6,079 | 8 | 0% |
| Bard College | $5,348 | 6 | 0% |
| The Brooklyn College Foundation Inc | $4,598 | 3 | 0% |
| Unitarian Universalist Association | $4,500 | 7 | n/a |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $3,027 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sterling Fund and Fellowship Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Sterling Fund and Fellowship Foundation with peer funders
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About Sterling Fund and Fellowship Foundation
- How much does Sterling Fund and Fellowship Foundation give?
- Sterling Fund and Fellowship Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $16,474 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sterling Fund and Fellowship Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (26%), Human Services (11%), Education (10%).
- Who are Sterling Fund and Fellowship Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Fair Field Productions ($14k), The Olana Partnership ($12k), Operation Unite New York Inc ($11k).
- Does Sterling Fund and Fellowship Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sterling Fund and Fellowship Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sterling Fund and Fellowship Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Sterling Fund and Fellowship Foundation based?
- Sterling Fund and Fellowship Foundation is based in IL.
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