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Sternberg Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RUTH ASAWA SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $7,522 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE | $7,522 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $7,522 |
| SANTA TERESA PARENT-TEACHER ORGANIZATION | $7,522 |
| TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER-CAMP TAWONGA | $5,265 |
| SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK | $3,761 |
| SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE | $3,761 |
| SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,761 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF SANTA CLARA AND SAN MATEO COUNTIES | $3,761 |
| TREES FOR THE FUTURE | $3,761 |
| ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION INC | $3,761 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC | $3,761 |
| MAKE IT HOME BAY AREA | $3,009 |
| SAN JOSE ANIMAL CARE CENTER | $2,507 |
| OPERA SAN JOSE | $2,507 |
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 (FY17–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +10%
- EFElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +24%
- SHSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- CHCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +21%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
- AAADOPT AMERICA NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $914 · revenue +554%
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.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.
To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.
For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…
To improve our communities' sexual and reproductive health outcomes through health care, education, and advocacy.
To provide convenient and affordable access to a comprehensive range of quality reproductive health care and sexual health information through patient services, education, and advocacy.
SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc and the most unlike its peers is Everett Middle School Ptsa. 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 47 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 37 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 SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TREES FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE CHILDRENS MUSICAL THEATER ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERA SAN JOSE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OVERTON PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Memphis Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds MAKE IT HOME - BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds EVERETT MIDDLE SCHOOL PTSA ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY DOG & PUPPY RESCUE ↗
- Who funds YWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ADOPT AMERICA NETWORK ↗
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: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Sternberg Charitable Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% 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.