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Stern Family 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $151,830 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $312,422 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $160,592 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 · FY2023
- Under $10k15 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GINDI MAIMONIDES ACADEMY | $33,000 |
| Shalom Torah Center | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIV ARYEH | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAD ELIEZER IN | $15,000 |
| American Friends Ateret Cohanim | $10,000 |
| FJC - JEWISH COMMUNITY OF POLAND FUND | $10,000 |
| CONG BETH AHARON RABBI DISC FUND | $10,000 |
| Cong. Tehila L' Dovid | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIEV JEWISH COMMUNITY | $5,000 |
| Friends of united Hatzalah | $5,000 |
| American Friends of Keren Achim | $3,750 |
| AMERICA FRIENDS OF BENE RACHEL | $3,000 |
| BEIS MIDRASH OF QUEENS/MICHLOL | $2,000 |
| Project Ezrah | $1,800 |
| Project Yechi | $1,200 |
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 (FY17–22, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
37 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 37 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k 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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIRYAT SANZ LANIADO HOSPITAL INC5× · 2017–2022 · $200k · revenue +5%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIV ARYEH INC6× · 2017–2022 · $101k · revenue +15%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC3× · 2017–2020 · $52k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- CJCONG JEWISH LEARNING EXPERIENCEone grant, 2018 · $30k
- GMGindi Maimonides Academyone grant, 2022 · $27k
- YUYESHIVA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +39%
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emunah of America Inc and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 89 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 TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KIRYAT SANZ LANIADO HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NETIV ARYEH INC ↗
- Who funds BRIS AVROHOM INC ↗
- Who funds CHEVRA-KADISHA YERUSHALAYIM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATERET COHANIM INC ↗
- Who funds Project Ezra ↗
- Who funds EMUNAH OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Beis Midrash of Queens ↗
- Who funds Gindi Maimonides Academy ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA BAIS MORDECHAI OF TEANECK ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds PROJECT YECHI INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Fjc · Granit Foundation · The Ojc Fund · The Blumenfeld Family Foundation · Daniel and Miriam Michael Foundation · Schwartz Family Charitable Foundation · The Frieman Foundation · David & Esther Muschel Foundation · The Kahan Family Foundation · The Arthur & Joyce Fein Family Foundation · Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey 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 Family 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.
- Yeshiva High School for Girls Inc — 1% of income from government
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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