· Private foundation
The Joyce C 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $148k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HESCHEL SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| MACCABI USA | $36,000 |
| CENTRAL FUND OF ISRAEL | $35,000 |
| ASPCA | $25,000 |
| ALL 4 THE DOGS RESCUE | $20,000 |
| GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF THE WEST | $10,000 |
| THE BUONICONTI FUND | $10,000 |
| SHEFA SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CONGREGATION SHEARITH ISRAEL | $5,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of The Joyce C Stern Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 84%.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $225k · revenue +102%- CFCentral Fund of Israel8× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +145%
- TATHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS4× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- MCMet Council Incone grant, 2022 · $135k
- CRCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +86%
- UIUJA ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUNDone grant, 2024 · $75k
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.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
The museum of jewish heritage - a living memorial to the holocaust is new york's contribution to the global responsibility to never forget. see schedule o for additional information.
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.
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…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 42 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 THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Central Fund of Israel ↗
- Who funds Met Council Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MACCABI USA INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds SOCCER STARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CULTURE FOR ONE ↗
- Who funds AMIT CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASHER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LYMPHOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds SHEFA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE ISRAEL FOREVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wags and Walks ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Joyce C Stern Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Joyce C Stern Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation: 49% of income from government
How this is measured
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