How much does The Linda Band Howard S Stern Family Foundation give?

The Linda Band Howard S Stern Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $443,749 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Linda Band Howard S Stern Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (48%), Education (17%), Food & Nutrition (12%).

Who are The Linda Band Howard S Stern Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Wisconsin Foundation ($391k), City Parks Foundation Inc ($205k), The Musella Foundation for Brain Tumor Research and Information Inc ($202k).

Does The Linda Band Howard S Stern Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Linda Band Howard S Stern Family 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 Linda Band Howard S Stern Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Network for Good, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.

Where is The Linda Band Howard S Stern Family Foundation based?

The Linda Band Howard S Stern Family Foundation is based in NY.

The Linda Band Howard S Stern Family Foundation

The Linda Band Howard S Stern Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Linda Band Howard S Stern Family 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.

$444k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.6MEducation$569kFood & Nutrition$414kRecreation & Sports$205kPublic Safety & Disaster$185kInternational$170kPhilanthropy$156kArts & Culture$32kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $28k
$10k–50k17 grants · $316k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$12,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
WISCONSIN FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION-THE STERN FAMILY GERIATRIC FUND	$100,000
HATZOLAH	$36,000
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY	$30,000
HEART AND SOUL CHARITABLE FUNDINC	$25,480
CITY HARVESTINC	$25,000
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER	$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION	$25,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY - HOPE LODGE NYC	$21,669
CAMERA	$20,000
EAST END HOSPICE	$20,000
NEURODIVERSITY ALLIANCE	$15,000
THE PARRISH MUSEUM	$12,000
GENERATION SOS	$10,500
EMORY UNIVERSITY	$10,000
DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.1M · 27 repeat orgs$271k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.1M

$237k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+43%

Still filing today

59%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthEducationRecreation & SportsInternationalPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $391k · revenue +39%
CP
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +19%
CF
COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +85%

Funded once

NL
NYU LANGONE-GROSSMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
one grant, 2021 · $100k
WF
WISCONSIN FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2023 · $53k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2022 · $30k

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.

04Its field

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.

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

New York University

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.

Education

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

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 38 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

20/20

Grantees still filing

15/20

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,870,143Education$451,000Health$433,980Recreation & Sports$204,656International$170,000Philanthropy$125,963Food & Nutrition$124,000

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.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Linda Band Howard S Stern Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Linda Band Howard S Stern Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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