· Private foundation
Stern Steven & Bonnie Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM | $77,625 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDF | $73,500 |
| PALM BEACH SYNAGOGUE | $30,000 |
| ICT | $25,000 |
| TSOHAR | $25,000 |
| PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| THE ALTNEU SYNAGOGUE | $18,000 |
| CONGREGATION ORACH CHAIM | $15,000 |
| MORSELIFE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HILTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE HEWITT SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PALM BEACH JEWISH FEDERATION | $6,000 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $6,000 |
| BRUCE AND MARSHA MOSKOWITZ FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 17 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k 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
- TMTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL4× · 2020–2023 · $350k · revenue +41%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM5× · 2020–2025 · $233k · revenue +67%
- TITZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $52k · revenue +296%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF TZOHARone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -5%
- IOINSTITUTE OF COUNTER TERRORISMone grant, 2020 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
To promote and enhance jewish religious observance in canada
To promote and support the rambam health care campus-the premier medical center in northern israel.
To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
To raise awareness in the united states and provide support for the open university of israel's vital mission of making access to higher education available to capable and motivated students from all sectors of israeli society.
To support cancer research in israel, for the benefit of israel and all mankind.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthright Israel Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Project Aseret Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 103 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 MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds TZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TZOHAR ↗
- Who funds THE HEWITT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HATIKVAH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRUCE AND MARSHA MOSKOWITZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds One For Israel ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds Horace Mann School ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds MORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
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 · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Fjc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Steven & Bonnie Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- United Way of Palm Beach County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.