· Public charity
Stern Academy Inc
To provide needs-based school scholarships for religious education services to all members of the Jewish faith who reside in the greater Philadelphia area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $320,752 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $344,852 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $24,100 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $106k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $199k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chabad Garden School | $104,313 |
| Cheder Chabad of Philadelphia | $94,625 |
| Politz Hebrew Academy | $37,550 |
| Gan Chabad | $25,500 |
| Abrams Hebrew Academy | $16,000 |
| Yeshivas Beis Dovid Shlomo | $14,764 |
| Chabad of the Main Line | $12,000 |
| Congregation Beth Solomon ELC | $8,000 |
| Center City Chabad | $8,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 10% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +4% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TPTHE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN2× · 2022–2023 · $550k · revenue +4%
- CCCheder Chabad - Philadelphia4× · 2022–2025 · $348k · revenue +14%
- YGYeshiva Gedolah Rabbinical Institute of New England Inc2× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- YAYESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGHone grant, 2023 · $270k · revenue +1%
- HAHILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGHone grant, 2023 · $270k · revenue -4%
- CMCheder Menachem INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +823%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
At Gesher Jewish Day School we inspire our students to be passionate about learning, practice justice, kindness and respect, aspire to a life guided by Jewish values, torah and community.
To provide education in general and judiac studies
Operation of a religious elementary school with aproximately 50 children enrolled
Religios community day school from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade providing a comprehensive, stimulating and enriching integrated jewish and secular education.
Beit rabban's mission is to nurture our children to be critical and creative thinkers, responsible world citizens, deeply fluent in jewish texts, hebrew language, the humanities and the sciences, respectful of a multiplicity of views, and…
Religious and secular education provided for preschool through high school
The richmond hebrew day school (dba rudlin torah academy) is a private nonprofit institution that provides instruction for children from kindergarten through eighth grade throughout the greater richmond, vametropolitan area.
To provide high quality jewish religious and secular education
The mission of the commission for jewish education is to build a strong foundation of quality jewish education for all jews in our regional community; to educate the community in the history, language, tradition and literature of the…
To provide children with an outstanding Jewish and Secular education.
The mission of Peoria Hebrew Day School is to lead its students toward the mastery of secular school subject matter, a strong Jewish identity, and a pride in their abundant heritage.
Kohelet yeshiva co-ed modern orthodox k-12 yeshiva day school
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yeshivath Achei Tmimim of Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Gan Chabad. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE PUBLIC SCHOOL OF GERMANTOWN ↗
- Who funds Cheder Chabad - Philadelphia ↗
- Who funds YESHIVATH ACHEI TMIMIM OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HILLEL ACADEMY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds ABRAMS HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Cheder Menachem INC ↗
- Who funds GAN CHABAD ↗
- Who funds POLITZ HEBREW ACADEMY OF NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Yeshiva Gedolah Rabbinical Institute of New England Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Foundation for Jewish Day Schools of Greater Philadelphia · Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia · Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · The Edwin J and Barbara R Berkowitz Family Foundation · Erlbaum Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Stern Academy Inc 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.
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.