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The Barry and Mimi Sternlicht 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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
78
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.1MPhilanthropy$2.8MHealth$1.3MCrime & Legal$1.1MInternational$1.1MHousing & Shelter$595kCivil Rights$500kFood & Nutrition$437kOther$0
02FY2024 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$25,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTH$250,000
USC SHOAH FOUNDATION INSTITUTE$250,000
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$244,000
IMPACTASSETS INC$244,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$100,000
BREAKTHROUGH T1D$100,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$100,000
THORN$55,500
THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC$55,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$50,000
EISENHOWER EXCHANGE FELLOWSHIPS INC$50,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$50,000
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE$50,000
IMENTOR INCORPORATED$50,000
STRUGGLE FOR MIAMIS AFFORDABLE AND SUSTAINABLE HOU$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $696k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LITTLE STAR FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $5k → 16%SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $3k → 16%MOURNING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 15%MOURNING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $25k → 15%SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $2k → 16%MOURNING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $15k → 15%THORN: $70k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $20k → 15%THORN: $56k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $15k → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $13k → 15%THORN: $50k → 14%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $10k → 15%THORN: $65k → 14%THORN: $56k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $42k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $40k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $35k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $15k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE INC: $25k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE INC: $25k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE INC: $25k → 17%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE INC: $25k → 17%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 43% of The Barry and Mimi Sternlicht Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Barry and Mimi Sternlicht Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 82 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 59 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
44

Total granted

$6.8M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+12%

Still filing today

88%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $430k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationHealthCrime & LegalInternationalArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    6× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +49%
  • CJ
    CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $350k · revenue +202%
  • AF
    ACUMEN FUND INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $300k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • FT
    FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -15%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +162%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -45%
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.

04Its field

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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Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
3
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
4
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
5
Just Capital Foundation Inc

Just capital's mission is to build a more just economy that works for all americans by helping companies improve how they serve all their stakeholders - workers, customers, communities, the environment, and shareholders - as defined by the…

Social Science
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
9
The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
12
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Village Academies Network Inc; the most unlike its peers is Chai Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

130 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. 130 of the 144 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/130
Grantees still filing
84/130
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,920,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $121,500 · Community Improvement+11 more: $425,600 · Community Improvement+11 moreNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,704,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC…IMPACTASSETSINC: $306,500 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINCUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $250,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-F…THE GIVING BACK FUND: $177,500 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUNDHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $150,000 · PhilanthropyTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $125,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $180,000 · Philanthropy+6 moreBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $500,000 · HealthBREAKTHRO…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $200,000 · HealthDana-Farb…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $140,000 · HealthPLANNED P…THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $120,000 · HealthTHE FORTU…NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · HealthNEW YORK …CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $65,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthACUMEN FUND INC: $300,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $230,000 · InternationalEisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated: $200,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $125,000 · InternationalFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $75,000 · InternationalMercy Corps: $70,000 · InternationalEDUCATE TOMORROW CORP: $50,000 · InternationalACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $50,000 · International+2 more: $27,500 · InternationalPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $412,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $275,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $110,000 · EducationEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $75,000 · EducationACHIEVE MIAMI INC: $55,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE: $40,000 · Education+7 more: $107,303 · EducationTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $205,000 · OtherBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATI: $150,000 · OtherCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION: $350,000 · OtherCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATI…FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $250,000 · OtherFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITI…FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $200,000 · OtherISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $290,000 · OtherISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN A…+71 more: $2,762,620 · Other+71 moreTHORN: $296,900 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $132,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesMOURNING FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $58,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE STAR FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human Services+2 more: $19,500 · Human Services
Community Improvement$3,467,100Philanthropy$2,893,000Health$1,250,000International$1,127,500Education$1,119,803Other$4,207,620Human Services$696,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $2,920,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,704,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $500,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $412,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetIMPACTASSETSINC: $306,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC: $300,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHORN: $296,900 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC: $290,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $275,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $230,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $205,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated: $200,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $177,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $140,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $132,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $121,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBENEATH THE WAVES INC: $120,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN HILLEL FOUNDATION: $120,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetOCEANIC GLOBAL FOUNDATION CORP: $115,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetCHICAGO CARES INC: $115,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAREER RESOURCES INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $100,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $95,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUNDARI FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetRAINFOREST PARTNERSHIP: $80,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGUITARS OVER GUNS ORGANIZATION INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetStruggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated: $75,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetIMENTOR INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFARM SHARE INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

M K Reichert Sternlicht FoundationDE32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: M K Reichert Sternlicht Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Barry S Sternlicht Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Miami Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Barry and Mimi Sternlicht Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barry and Mimi Sternlicht Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Kristi House Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Services of Greenwich: 41% of income from government
  • Career Resources Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Partners Inc: 22% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Farm Share Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Feeding South Florida Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Sundari Foundation Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Community Services of South Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Educate Tomorrow Corp: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Barry and Mimi Sternlicht Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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