New York · Private foundation
Stern Family Philanthropic 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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 53
- Grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 46
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Stern Family Philanthropic Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k 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 | 51 | $1.2M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $1.7M | 48% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $1.6M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $522k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $588k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $944k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $635k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $505k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Jewish Museum | $1,650,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $1,587,500 | 5 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $710,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Cancer Research Institute Inc | $466,563 | 8 | 0% |
| Lymphoma Research Foundation | $285,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester | $205,500 | 7 | n/a |
| American Museum of Natural History | $200,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Success Academy Charter Schools Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Connecticut College | $85,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Battery Conservancy Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stern Family Philanthropic 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Glff Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Lake Road Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Fjc · The New York Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
Compare Stern Family Philanthropic Foundation with peer funders
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About Stern Family Philanthropic Foundation
- How much does Stern Family Philanthropic Foundation give?
- Stern Family Philanthropic Foundation reported 53 grants totaling $1,196,069 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Stern Family Philanthropic Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Education (27%), Health (14%).
- Who are Stern Family Philanthropic Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Jewish Museum ($1.6M), Trustees of Tufts College ($1.6M), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($710k).
- Does Stern Family Philanthropic Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Stern Family Philanthropic 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 Philanthropic Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Glff Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Stern Family Philanthropic Foundation based?
- Stern Family Philanthropic Foundation is based in NY.
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