Nebraska · Private foundation
Sterns Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $57k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $42k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 13
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 54% of the organizations Sterns Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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 | 8 | $42k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $78k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $61k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $63k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $27k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Buffalo County Historical Society | $25,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Dawes County Historical Society | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sheridan County Historical Society Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Nebraska Land Trust Inc | $17,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Aeola H Brennemann Library Foundation | $16,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Prairie Pioneer Center Inc | $12,050 | 1 | n/a |
| Custer County Historical Society | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Casper Community College District | $8,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Brigham Young University | $6,000 | 4 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Bank for the Heartland | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Buffalo County Historical Society | $25,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Dawes County Historical Society | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sheridan County Historical Society Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Nebraska Land Trust Inc | $17,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Aeola H Brennemann Library Foundation | $16,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Prairie Pioneer Center Inc | $12,050 | 1 | n/a |
| Custer County Historical Society | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Casper Community College District | $8,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Brigham Young University | $6,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Crane River Theater Company Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| SDSM&T Center for Alumni Relations & Advancement | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Concordia University | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($96k), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Sterns Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Sterns Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Sterns Charitable Foundation Inc reported 8 itemized grants totaling $42,000, out of $57,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 13 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Sterns Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Education (14%), Food & Nutrition (6%).
- Who are Sterns Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Food Bank for the Heartland ($30k), Buffalo County Historical Society ($25k), Dawes County Historical Society ($20k).
- Does Sterns Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sterns Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sterns Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Sterns Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Sterns Charitable Foundation Inc is based in NE.
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