· Private foundation
Stern Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of Stern Foundation’s FY2026 grant dollars went to Richmond Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2026 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2025, the last year Stern Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 20 organizations, $47k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PGA TOUR CHARITIES | $8,500 |
| PINE RIDGE MISSIONARY TRAINING CAMP | $6,500 |
| MUSEUM OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL | $4,000 |
| THE VALENTINE | $2,000 |
| JEWS FOR JESUS | $2,000 |
| BARNS OF ROSE HILL | $2,000 |
| GRACE AND HOLY TRINITY CHURCH | $1,367 |
| ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL | $1,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,166 |
| BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER | $1,028 |
| BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL | $1,027 |
| PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS | $1,000 |
| WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +17% since the first grant, against -34% for those funded once.
42 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call). Read against FY2025, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TVTHE VALENTINE MUSEUM6× · 2021–2026 · $14k · revenue +49%
- BOBARNS OF ROSE HILL6× · 2021–2026 · $11k · revenue +21%
Washington and Lee University5× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- MCMASSEY CANCER CENTERone grant, 2022 · $1k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLone grant, 2022 · $300
- BVBOYCE VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCone grant, 2021 · $150 · revenue -34%
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.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.
Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs
Virginia tech foundation, inc. (vtf) is a virginia nonstock corporation established in 1948 for the sole purpose of managing virginia tech's endowment to advance virginia tech's mission and its strategic priorities.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 49 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 Richmond Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BARNS OF ROSE HILL ↗
- Who funds THE GLASS-GLEN BURNIE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLARKE COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL HIGH SCHOOL IN VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF MERCER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER CANTERBURY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING ARMS HOSPITAL ↗
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: The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · Andrew U Ferrari Foundation · American Woodmark Foundation Inc · Tj Guarriello Jr Family Foundation · Buckley Family Endowment Inc · The Guide Foundation · Wise Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stern Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stern Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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