· Private foundation
The Linda & Isaac Stern Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Young Concert Artists | $30,000 |
| Washington Performing Arts | $10,000 |
| The New School | $5,000 |
| Levine Music | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,068 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its 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.
9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YCYOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $60k · revenue +29%
- SBSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE4× · 2017–2021 · $45k · revenue +2%
- TNThe New School7× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- TCTHE COLBURN SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +17%
- USUNC School of the Artsone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SOSPHINX ORGANIZATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +32%
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 cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
The florentine opera company is driven to produce the full range of operatic works reflecting the highest musical and theatrical standards, and to support community and education programs that foster the current and next generation of…
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 23 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 YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds THE MIDORI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SPHINX ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEVINE MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds FBN PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds BETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds ALK POSITIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE 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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Linda & Isaac Stern Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Linda & Isaac Stern Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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