Tennessee · Private foundation
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.
- $86k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,761
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $7,522
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Sternberg Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 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
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $86k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $77k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $73k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $76k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $65k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $60k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $45k | 4% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $52k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $26,222 | 8 | 0% |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc | $26,221 | 8 | 0% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $24,727 | 8 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $24,727 | 8 | 0% |
| Trees for the Future Inc | $22,060 | 7 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc | $20,882 | 4 | 0% |
| Save the Redwoods League | $19,918 | 6 | 0% |
| San Jose Childrens Musical Theater | $18,139 | 7 | 0% |
| Opera San Jose Incorporated | $17,483 | 8 | 0% |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation | $17,483 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($141k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sternberg Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 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
How this is measured
About Sternberg Charitable Foundation
- How much does Sternberg Charitable Foundation give?
- Sternberg Charitable Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $86,001 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Sternberg Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (12%), Arts & Culture (12%), Environment (12%).
- Who are Sternberg Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($26k), Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ($26k), Second Harvest of Silicon Valley ($25k).
- Does Sternberg Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sternberg Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sternberg Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
- Where is Sternberg Charitable Foundation based?
- Sternberg Charitable Foundation is based in TN.
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