· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k12 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $430k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D6× · 2017–2024 · $500k · revenue +49%
- CJCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $350k · revenue +202%
- AFACUMEN FUND INC4× · 2020–2023 · $300k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- FTFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INCone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -15%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +162%- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCone 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.
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.
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.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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.
How this is measured
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.
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 BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds ACUMEN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THORN ↗
- Who funds ISRAAID US GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING BACK FUND ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds BENEATH THE WAVES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEANIC GLOBAL FOUNDATION CORP ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CARES INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CAREER RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE SUNDARI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST PARTNERSHIP ↗
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: 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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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