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The Barry S 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $586k
- $50k–250k23 grants · $2.2M
- $250k+5 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $2,500,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $900,000 |
| EAGLES WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC | $500,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | $430,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC | $200,000 |
| GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION | $200,000 |
| MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $109,200 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $100,000 |
| AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION | $100,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $100,000 |
| UNITED JEWISH APPEAL FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTH | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of The Barry S Sternlicht Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 13 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $927k 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
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE5× · 2020–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +68%- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +46%
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +26%
Funded once
- FTFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INCone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -15%
- USUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k
- AFACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +141%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 32 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
123 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. 123 of the 139 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 ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLES WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc ↗
- Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds LITTLE STAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMENTOR INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds HRJ CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE 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 Barry and Mimi Sternlicht Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Fascitelli Family Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Roy J Zuckerberg Family Foundation · Hackett Family 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 Barry S Sternlicht 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Farm Share Inc — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc — 2% of income from government
- Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc — 1% 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
- New World Symphony Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Educate Tomorrow Corp — 0% of income from government
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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