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Stern Steven & Bonnie Foundation Inc

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.

$482k
Granted FY2026still arriving
26
Grants FY2026still arriving
6
States reached
$181k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$546kReligion$480kHealth$440kArts & Culture$372kEducation$211kCivil Rights$112kPhilanthropy$91kHuman Services$68kOther$0
02FY2026 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k17 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $187k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $241k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDF$181,344
PALM BEACH SYNAGOGUE$60,135
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM$48,911
AMERICA GIVES INC$35,000
CONGREGATION ORACH CHAIM$32,850
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ASOR$25,000
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL$25,000
MORSELIFE FOUNDATION$10,000
UT CHABAD HOUSE$10,000
THE ALTNEU SYNAGOGUE$6,175
PALM BEACH JEWISH FEDERATION$6,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL PHILHARMONIC$5,000
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$5,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$5,000
BRUCE AND MARSHA MOSKOWITZ FOUNDATION INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $48k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $8k → 14%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MORSELIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
IL
MI
NY
NV
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
TN
DC
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 43 repeat orgs$588k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2026, 31 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
58

Total granted

$2.5M
$467k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
0%

Still filing today

56%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
InternationalArts & CultureHealthEducationReligionPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TM
    THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL
    4× · 2020–2023 · $350k · revenue +41%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM
    6× · 2020–2026 · $282k · revenue +67%
  • TI
    TZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $52k · revenue +296%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TZOHAR
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -5%
  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF COUNTER TERRORISM
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Weizmann Institute of Science

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…

Science & Tech
3
The Jewish Agency for Israel

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…

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4
American Friends of Torah and Tefilah Ramat Eshkol Inc

To promote and support jewish religious charitable and educational activities in israel & usa.

Religion
5
The Shalom Hartman Institute of North America

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…

International
6
American Friends of Itim Inc

To promote and support jewish religious educational activities in israel.

Religion
7
American Friends of Mosdos Montreal Inc

To promote and enhance jewish religious observance in canada

Religion
8
American Friends of Menuchas Asher Csenger Inc

To promote, benefit, and support jewish educational activities in israel

Religion
9
The Israel Institute Inc

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.

International
10
American Friends of the Open University of Israel Inc

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.

International
11
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
12
American Friends of the Rambam Medical Center

To promote and support the rambam health care campus, the premier medical center in northern israel.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Friends of Hebrew University Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 117 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/65
Grantees still filing
39/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDF: $517,344 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF IDFPALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INC: $295,495 · OtherPALM BEACH ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUE INCAJC GLOBAL JEWISH ADVOCACY: $99,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · Other+74 more: $936,432 · Other+74 moreTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $350,000 · HealthTHE MOUNT SIN…+6 more: $26,300 · Health+6 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $281,525 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIE…RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $51,000 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRA…+8 more: $41,360 · Arts & Culture+8 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $71,000 · InternationalHATIKVAH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $25,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · InternationalFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $25,000 · InternationalCentral Fund of Israel: $15,000 · InternationalAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $10,000 · International+7 more: $14,300 · InternationalTZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $52,000 · ReligionOne For Israel: $25,000 · Religion+1 more: $1,000 · ReligionAMERICA GIVES INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyBRUCE AND MARSHA MOSKOWITZ FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $9,000 · PhilanthropyMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,500 · Human Services
Other$1,923,671Health$376,300Arts & Culture$373,885International$215,300Religion$78,000Philanthropy$76,500Human Services$47,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $350,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $281,525 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF REICHMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $71,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTZOHAR ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $52,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $51,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEWITT SCHOOL: $37,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRUCE AND MARSHA MOSKOWITZ FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHATIKVAH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne For Israel: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHorace Mann School: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $21,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrothers for Life: $9,960 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Palm Beach County Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $6,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT VERITAS: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASBIA: $4,080 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAMUEL WAXMAN CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Intelligence Practitioners Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ATLAS KINDER FOUNDAT: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA ISRAEL INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD ALLERGY RESEARCH & EDUCATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH OUTREACH PROGRAM IN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF YAHAD - IN UNUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHANGE SUMMER INC: $565 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFIKIM INC: $500 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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 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 MORSELIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HEWITT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA GIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds BRUCE AND MARSHA MOSKOWITZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HATIKVAH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds One For Israel ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Horace Mann School ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
  • Who funds MORSELIFE HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY18.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stern Steven & Bonnie Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stern Steven & Bonnie Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 117 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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