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The Stern Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $74k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH | $11,681 |
| DIRECT RELIEF - CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE | $10,000 |
| CAMPBELL HALL SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| COLLEGE GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO | $8,000 |
| IMACA | $5,447 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| HUMANITY HALE | $4,000 |
| SOAR INC | $4,000 |
| THE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| HEROES LINKED - MVAT FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| COLLEGE TRACK | $3,000 |
| EDUCATION PIONEERS | $3,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO - MARIN FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| KNOTS OF LOVE | $2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER2× · 2018–2019 · $125k · revenue +52%- MCMcKinley Children's Center Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $50k · revenue +180%
DIRECT RELIEF6× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- LJLA JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGINGone grant, 2023 · $17k
- ACA CHANCE IN LIFEINCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +1%
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +13%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Living Hope Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 160 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds McKinley Children's Center Inc ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds HEROES LINKED ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SOAR Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION PIONEERS ↗
- Who funds THE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds A CHANCE IN LIFEINC ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Knots of Love Inc ↗
- Who funds FREE SPEECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Jewish Federation of Greater Portland ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds HILLEL 818 ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds DOGS WITHOUT BORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Mammoth Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Humanity Hale ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The James Irvine Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Yelp Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Stern Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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