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The Stecher 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.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$353kHealth$258kPhilanthropy$90kInternational$53kYouth Development$45kReligion$25kSocial Science$10kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $110,980, the rows itemized in this filing. The $145,230 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $34,250 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Board of Family & Childrens Services Inc$40,000
UJA-Federation of New York$30,000
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy$13,000
University of Colorado$5,000
Caron Outpatient Treatment Centers$5,000
Jewish Board of Family & Childrens Services Inc$2,500
Jewish Federation Los Angeles$2,500
University of Colorado$2,000
Jewish Home Fdn Of North Jersey$1,800
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center$1,000
Columbia Law School$1,000
Hospital For Special Surgery Foundation$1,000
Dalton Schools Inc$1,000
Lawyers for Children Inc$1,000
Brooklyn Children's Museum$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE JEWISH BOARD: $36k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

NY
PA
CT
RI
UT
CO
MD
KS
TN
DC
FL
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$660k · 24 repeat orgs$185k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
37

Total granted

$660k
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+8%

Still filing today

67%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • JB
    JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $236k · revenue +4%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $87k · revenue +34%
  • WI
    WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • MA
    MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORKgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +27%
  • HR
    HARLEM RBI INC
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +14%
  • PA
    PARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $17k
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.

1
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
2
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
8
Stony Brook Orthopedic 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
9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
11
Manhattanville University

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

Education
12
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; the most unlike its peers is Youth Educational Empowerment Program. 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

38 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. 38 of the 67 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
28/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Caedmon School: $188,090 · OtherThe Caedmon SchoolUniversity of Colorado: $32,000 · OtherUniversity of ColoradoPARK AVENUE SYNAGOGUE INC: $16,500 · OtherColumbia Law School: $15,500 · OtherUniversity of Colorado Honors Program Fund: $15,000 · OtherUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $12,000 · Other+33 more: $45,984 · Other+33 moreJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $235,985 · Human ServicesJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN…+7 more: $14,550 · Human Services+7 moreUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $87,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APP…HARLEM RBI INC: $45,000 · PhilanthropyHARLEM RBI INC+3 more: $3,250 · PhilanthropyMONTESSORI ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $50,040 · EducationMONTESSORI…DALTON SCHOOLS INC: $13,000 · EducationDALTON SCH…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…+3 more: $2,250 · EducationWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $53,000 · International+1 more: $250 · InternationalBROWN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 · Community ImprovementCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $2,500 · Arts & CultureBROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CORPORATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History: $650 · Arts & CultureLONG BEACH ISLAND FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES: $250 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $50 · Arts & Culture
Other$325,074Human Services$250,535Philanthropy$135,250Education$77,290International$53,250Community Improvement$12,000Arts & Culture$6,950

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $235,985 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $87,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $53,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMONTESSORI ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $50,040 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHARLEM RBI INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN HILLEL FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM CORPORATION: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Oxalosis & Hyperoxaluria Foundation: $764 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEYOND CELIAC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON BATH & TENNIS CLUB CHARITABLE FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACKBERRY FARM FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMQ FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLONG BEACH ISLAND FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…The New York Communit…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
Jewish Communal FundNY22× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The New York Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Stecher Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stecher Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Stecher Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Stecher Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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