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Stern Family Charitable Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES | $50,000 |
| NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC | $50,000 |
| POWER OF TWO | $50,000 |
| ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| ROOM TO GROW | $45,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| NEIGHBORS TOGETHER CORP | $40,000 |
| REACHING OUT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $40,000 |
| THE ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY | $35,000 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $720k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC7× · 2018–2024 · $285k · revenue +52%- ATASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN7× · 2018–2024 · $285k · revenue +61%
SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $280k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- GJGREGORY JACKSON CENTERone grant, 2020 · $25k
- JPJEREMIAH PROGRAM NEW YORKone grant, 2019 · $25k
- APACE PROGRAMS FOR THE HOMLESSone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
To provide a safe, affordable and comprehensive program of high-quality early childhood education, parental and family support, as well as academic enrichment and recreational programs.
The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.
The new york foundling, in the tradition of openness and compassion of its sponsors, the sisters of charity, helps children, youth, adults, and families in need through services, supports, and advocacy that strengthen family and community…
Community action planning council assists, supports, and empowers people through diverse programs designed to alleviate poverty, promote self-sufficiency, and advance community prosperity.
Forestdale's mission is to ensure that children have the assets they need to thrive.
To improve the lives mothers and babies by supporting the new york city nurse-family partnership program (nyc nfp)through financial assistance to enable mothers' self-sufficiency, increase social and community connections, and provide…
Nurses for newborns (the organization) is a not-for-profit missouri corporation whose purpose is to provide home-based services to promote the health, safety, and well-being of babies and their families. the organization has two branches…
Little flower is committed to improving the well-being of the children, families, and individuals with developmental disabilities across nyc and long island so they can reach their full potential. little flower transforms caring into…
Since 1972, under 21, d.b.a. covenant house new york (chny) has been working with one of new york city's most vulnerable populations - youth experiencing homelessness, age 16-24, and their dependent children. chny provides young people…
The organization is dedicated to combining education and advocacy to expand opportunities for children and families in order to strengthen the voice of the latino community based on the belief that the most effective way to support latino…
To provide quality programs for young children with special needs.
Provide intensive in-home support to developmentally and emotionally disturbed children and adolescents and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sanctuary for Families Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reaching Out Community Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 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 NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds REACHING OUT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS TOGETHER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Stern Family Charitable 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.
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.
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