Virginia · Public charity
The Sterling Donor Advised Fund
Educate the general public and nonprofit organizations to encourage charitable giving in all forms beneficial to nonprofit charitable organizations.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 39
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 68%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $56M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 68% of the organizations The Sterling Donor Advised Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 38 | $1.8M | 53% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $1.7M | 68% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $364k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $2.1M | 56% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $2.2M | 86% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $3.9M | 75% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $4.3M | 81% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $4.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Faces | $4,259,139 | 4 | 68% |
| Legacy Church Inc | $3,707,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brigham Young University-Hawaii | $2,150,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Center for Early Education | $2,000,000 | 2 | 4% |
| UCB International Ministries | $1,038,310 | 1 | 90% |
| Rotary Club of Escondido After Five Charitable Foundation | $965,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Roots Of Humanity Foundation Inc | $877,200 | 3 | 8% |
| Mitchell Thorp Foundation | $864,909 | 1 | n/a |
| Brigham Young University | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New York University | $500,000 | 2 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
The Sterling Donor Advised Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 75 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.
Open a dossier: Millennium Evergreen Charitable Fund · Kids Connect Charitable Fund · Schooling for Life · Youth Initiative Fund · Tagliabue Family Foundation · Century Vision Benefit Fund · Six Talents Foundation Inc · Palmer Walbridge Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · American Gift Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to The Sterling Donor Advised Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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About The Sterling Donor Advised Fund
- How much does The Sterling Donor Advised Fund give?
- The Sterling Donor Advised Fund reported 39 itemized grants totaling $1,812,250, out of $2,327,509 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Sterling Donor Advised Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), Education (19%), Religion (15%).
- Who are The Sterling Donor Advised Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Friends of Faces ($4.3M), Legacy Church Inc ($3.7M), Brigham Young University-Hawaii ($2.1M).
- Does The Sterling Donor Advised Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 68% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Sterling Donor Advised Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Millennium Evergreen Charitable Fund, Kids Connect Charitable Fund, Schooling for Life.
- Where is The Sterling Donor Advised Fund based?
- The Sterling Donor Advised Fund is based in VA.
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