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The Barry S Sternlicht Foundation at a glance

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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.

$7.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
73
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$8.7MCivil Rights$5.8MHealth$1.8MEnvironment$1.7MRecreation & Sports$1.6MEducation$953kArts & Culture$834kReligion$701kOther$0
02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $586k
  • $50k–250k23 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+5 grants · $4.8M
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$170M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC$200,000
GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION$200,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC$200,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$109,200
BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$100,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$100,000
AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION$100,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$100,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$100,000
AMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION$100,000
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%SONGS OF LOVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%LITTLE STAR FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%LITTLE STAR FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $7k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $10k → 11%LITTLE STAR FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%LITTLE STAR FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $10k → 15%JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $10k → 15%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE INC: $25k → 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

VT
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
AR
DC
GA
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 14% of The Barry S Sternlicht Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Barry S Sternlicht Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 74 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
47

Total granted

$21M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+5%

Still filing today

88%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $927k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthPhilanthropyInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +68%
  • MS
    MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +140%
  • WP
    WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • FT
    FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -15%
  • US
    UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • AF
    ACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +141%
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.

1
United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
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
3
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
4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
5
Furman University

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.

Education
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
The Baruch College Fund

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.

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

123 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
123/123
Grantees still filing
81/123
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $5,650,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATIONNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,006,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWIS…GREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $800,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC+9 more: $391,735 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $5,064,200 · Civil RightsAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEEANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $275,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $250,000 · Civil RightsWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $1,000,000 · OtherWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TR…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $225,000 · OtherTHE BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY OF CONNECTICUT INCORPORATED: $215,000 · OtherBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $350,000 · OtherBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIO…EAGLES WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC: $500,000 · OtherEAGLES WINGS INTERNATIONAL …UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherCITY HARVEST INC: $375,000 · OtherCITY HARVEST INCGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $300,000 · Other+65 more: $2,735,314 · Other+65 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,000,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $275,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Environment+3 more: $44,500 · EnvironmentMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · HealthSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $150,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $70,000 · Health+8 more: $162,000 · HealthYEAR UP INC: $275,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $115,000 · EducationWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $90,000 · EducationEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $50,000 · EducationACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 · EducationNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $50,000 · EducationREACH PREP INC: $47,650 · EducationACHIEVE MIAMI INC: $40,000 · EducationHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF GREATER NEW YORK INC: $35,000 · Education+13 more: $169,500 · EducationThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $253,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $250,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $36,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$8,847,735Civil Rights$5,589,200Other$6,000,314Environment$1,444,500Health$1,382,000Education$972,150Arts & Culture$739,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $5,650,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $5,064,200 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,006,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC: $800,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEAGLES WINGS INTERNATIONAL INC: $500,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $375,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $275,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $275,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $275,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $253,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $250,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $225,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Louis D Brandeis Center Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICA ISRAEL DEMOCRACY COALITION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFoundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc: $175,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $115,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $115,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE STAR FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetIMENTOR INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS (AMERICAN SECTION) INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHRJ CHARITIES INC: $100,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTEAM IMPACT INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTONY BLAIR AFRICA GOVERNANCE INITIATIVE -US D/B/A TONY BLAIR FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMY FOR GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP CHARTER SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 over 1y, 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.

The Barry and Mimi St…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundSilicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Fascitelli Family…The Batchelor Foundat…National Philanthropi…Greater Miami Jewish …Morgan Stanley Global…Roy J Zuckerberg Fami…Hackett Family Founda…
The Barry and Mimi Sternlicht FoundationDE30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 S Sternlicht Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barry S Sternlicht Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Barry S Sternlicht Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Barry S 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 139 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

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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