Pennsylvania · 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.
- $385k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 11
- Itemized grants FY2026
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Itemized, FY2026
- $370k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2026
- $18,350
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $95,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 14
- FY2022 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 3
- Total assets, FY2026
- $311k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 33% of the organizations Stern Academy Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 11 | $370k | 9% |
| FY2025 | 9 | $321k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $460k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $1.5M | 57% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $728k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lubavitch of Montgomery County | $677,113 | 5 | n/a |
| The Public School of Germantown | $550,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cheder Chabad - Philadelphia | $433,650 | 5 | 3% |
| Community Day School | $270,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh | $270,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Yeshivath Achei Tmimim of Pittsburgh | $270,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Abrams Hebrew Academy | $269,600 | 4 | 3% |
| Gan Chabad | $188,700 | 4 | 6% |
| Cheder Menachem INC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Bais Menachem | $83,800 | 4 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lubavitch of Montgomery County | $677,113 | 5 | n/a |
| The Public School of Germantown | $550,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Cheder Chabad - Philadelphia | $433,650 | 5 | 3% |
| Community Day School | $270,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Hillel Academy of Pittsburgh | $270,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Yeshivath Achei Tmimim of Pittsburgh | $270,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Abrams Hebrew Academy | $269,600 | 4 | 3% |
| Gan Chabad | $188,700 | 4 | 6% |
| Cheder Menachem INC | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Bais Menachem | $83,800 | 4 | n/a |
| Chabad Lubavitch of the Main Line Inc | $56,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Politz Hebrew Academy of Northeast Philadelphia | $55,900 | 2 | n/a |
| Yeshiva Gedolah Rabbinical Institute of New England Inc | $46,302 | 3 | 0% |
| Educational Institute Oholei Torah of Brooklyn Inc | $22,473 | 2 | n/a |
| Congregation Beth Solomon | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Center City Chabad | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Associated Beth Rivka School for Girls | $5,540 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stern Academy Inc 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: 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
How this is measured
About Stern Academy Inc
- How much does Stern Academy Inc give?
- Stern Academy Inc reported 11 itemized grants totaling $370,429, out of $385,229 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2025.
- What does Stern Academy Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Stern Academy Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2026: Lubavitch of Montgomery County ($677k), The Public School of Germantown ($550k), Cheder Chabad - Philadelphia ($434k).
- Does Stern Academy Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Stern Academy Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for Jewish Day Schools of Greater Philadelphia, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia, Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools.
- Where is Stern Academy Inc based?
- Stern Academy Inc is based in PA.
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