New York · Private foundation
The Dianne & David Stern Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $607k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 73
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Dianne & David Stern Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $332k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $2.8M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $1.3M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $2.4M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $20k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 73 | $1.8M | 33% |
| FY2018 | 55 | $1.6M | 85% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earthjustice | $7,950,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Thurgood Marshall College Fund | $430,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc | $265,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $210,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Paley Center for Media | $187,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Peace River Refuge & Ranch Inc | $125,000 | 4 | 8% |
| University of Colorado Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc | $90,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Little Star Foundation Inc | $86,000 | 5 | 1% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $65,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($574k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Dianne & David Stern Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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
Compare The Dianne & David Stern Foundation with peer funders
About The Dianne & David Stern Foundation
- How much does The Dianne & David Stern Foundation give?
- The Dianne & David Stern Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $607,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 73 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Dianne & David Stern Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (70%), Education (17%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are The Dianne & David Stern Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Earthjustice ($8.0M), Thurgood Marshall College Fund ($430k), Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc ($265k).
- Does The Dianne & David Stern Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dianne & David Stern Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Dianne & David Stern Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The New York Community Trust, American Express Foundation.
- Where is The Dianne & David Stern Foundation based?
- The Dianne & David Stern Foundation is based in NY.
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