Michigan · Private foundation
Stern Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $43k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $327k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Stern Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 7 | $28k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $43k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $51k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $30k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $54k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $57k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $45k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $50k | 55% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brilliant Detroit | $87,029 | 9 | 0% |
| Temple Israel of Detroit | $58,064 | 7 | n/a |
| Repair the World | $26,782 | 3 | 0% |
| The Performing Arts Project Inc | $21,900 | 4 | 2% |
| Yad Ezra | $16,483 | 7 | 0% |
| Mapscorps | $11,500 | 3 | 1% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Humble Design Inc | $9,223 | 7 | 0% |
| Friendship Circle | $8,350 | 9 | n/a |
| Breakthrough T1d | $8,089 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stern Family 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: United Jewish Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Verizon Foundation
How this is measured
About Stern Family Foundation
- How much does Stern Family Foundation give?
- Stern Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $43,489 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Stern Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (28%), Youth Development (20%), Religion (15%).
- Who are Stern Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Brilliant Detroit ($87k), Temple Israel of Detroit ($58k), Repair the World ($27k).
- Does Stern Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stern Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Stern Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Jewish Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation.
- Where is Stern Family Foundation based?
- Stern Family Foundation is based in MI.
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