· Private foundation
Sternberg Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FEDERATION OF JEWISH AGENCY | $18,000 |
| ADATH ISRAEL | $3,900 |
| CARNEGIE HALL | $2,500 |
| JFCS OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $1,900 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA | $1,100 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | $1,000 |
| BRYN MAWR FIRE CO | $150 |
| FORGOTTEN CATS INC | $150 |
| LOWER MERION POLICE PENSION | $100 |
| JAFFA INSTITUTE | $100 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $100 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $100 |
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 (FY18–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +40% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SSSHIPLEY SCHOOL4× · 2017–2022 · $12k · revenue +18%
- TCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION2× · 2023–2024 · $4k · revenue +40%
THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC2× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $6k
- GFGT FIELD OF DREAMSone grant, 2023 · $1k
- HFHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERGYone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
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How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 32 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds SHIPLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR TERRACE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds JUDITH CREED HORIZONS FOR ACHIEVING INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FORGOTTEN CATS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION IN JAFFA INC ↗
- Who funds THE STARTING POINT INC OF NEW JERSEY ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sternberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sternberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
- Forgotten Cats Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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