· Private foundation
The Allison Maher Stern Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DMF YOUTH INC | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| MANHATTAN INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| WCS(LA MATTINA WILDLIFE CENTER) | $10,000 |
| SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY PREVENTION CRUELTY ANIMALS(ASPCA) | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $3,500 |
| SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME OF THE UNITED STATES | $3,500 |
| AMC SCHWARZMAN ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| LAKE AGAWAM CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC | $2,000 |
| CITY MEALS ON WHEELS | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- DYDMF YOUTH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $122k · revenue +176%
- MIMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +38%
- WCWildlife Conservation Society3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +39%- TATHE ANIMAL ADVOCATESone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -41%
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.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
Nyc bird alliance is a grassroots community that protects wild birds and habitat in the five boroughs, improving the quality of life for all new yorkers.
Zoo new york, by example and action, provides knowledge and motivation for conserving nature in new york state through science-based natural and cultural experiences.
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
The randall's island park alliance, inc. (ripa) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works with the city of new york and local communities to provide an innovative and exciting destination through a wide range of sports venues,…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Restoration Project and the most unlike its peers is Embracing All Creatures Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 46 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 DMF YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds 50 WAYS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds EMBRACING ALL CREATURES INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON ANIMAL SHELTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Allison Maher Stern 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.
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.
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