· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $233k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $503k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JEWISH MUSEUM | $350,000 |
| WNET | $150,000 |
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY | $102,500 |
| UJA FEDERATION | $100,000 |
| CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| HINDU TEMPLE OF TRI-STATE INC | $50,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANUEL OF WESTCHESTER | $37,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $25,000 |
| STEPHEN WISE FREE SYNAGOGUE | $16,394 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $15,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $16k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against -15% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TJTHE JEWISH MUSEUM8× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +99%
Trustees of Tufts College5× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +50%- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC7× · 2018–2025 · $710k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- NNETone grant, 2017 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $25k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
The mission of the new york cardiac center is to be a part of the ongoing effort to diagnose and prevent heart and other diseases. we help to develop treatment for those who need it and assist in training new scientists, educators, and…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 79 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds A GIVING HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds White Plains Hospital Medical Center ↗
- Who funds THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds QUAKER RIDGE EMPLOYEE CHARITY FUND ↗
- Who funds THE EMELIN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Bridge Golf Foundation ↗
- Who funds DANIEL W OFFIT FUND TO FIGHT GLIOBLASTOMA INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cristian Rivera Foundation ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER NY & CT INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stern Family Philanthropic Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stern Family Philanthropic Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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