· Private foundation
The Bernard Stern Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| FRIENDS OF THE IDF | $5,000 |
| BLADDER CANCER ADVOCACY NETWORK | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| HADASSAH | $5,000 |
| SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $4,000 |
| NO KID HUNGRY | $3,000 |
| IN JACOB'S SHOES | $2,000 |
| PLAY FOR PINK | $2,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +102% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +22%
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 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…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 30 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 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bernard Stern Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bernard Stern Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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