· Private foundation
The Bernard Stern Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HILLEL OF BROWARD & PALM BEACH | $15,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH | $10,000 |
| FAU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK | $5,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE IDF | $5,000 |
| HADASSAH | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $4,000 |
| NO KID HUNGRY | $3,000 |
| IN JACOB'S SHOES | $2,000 |
| PLAY FOR PINK | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 73% 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.
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 +102% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- HOHILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +253%
- FAFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +49%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- SWSIMON WEISENTHAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $3k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICALone grant, 2022 · $2k
- HOHospice of Palm Beach County Incone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -15%
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 jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
The gainesville jewish student foundation, inc. (known as schilit hillel at uf) mission: schilit hillel at uf enriches the lives of jewish students, inspiring them to make an enduring commitment to jewish life, learning, and israel
To strengthen and expand the u.s.-israel relationship in ways that enhance the security of the united states and israel.
To strengthen jewish life and identity in our community, provide for jewish people in need and promote support for israel.
Bje enhances the quality of, increases access to, and encourages participation in jewish education throughout the jewish communities of greater los angeles. bje is an advocate, planner, catalyst, and creative leader for strengthening and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Play for Pink Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 30 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 HILLEL OF BROWARD AND PALM BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACOB S ZWEIG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TORAH ACADEMY OF BOCA RATON INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Yehudi Inc ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Palm Beach County 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: 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 Bernard 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- Yehudi Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Torah Academy of Boca Raton Inc — 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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