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Thomas D & Denise R 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.

International$7.2MArts & Culture$1.4MPhilanthropy$130kHealth$125kCivil Rights$110kEducation$91kHuman Services$50kCommunity Improvement$35kCrime & Legal$3kOther$932k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION$1,000,000
BROTHERS FOR LIFE$400,000
CHABAD AT DARTMOUTH$35,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC$10,000
INTERNATIONAL LONE SOLDIERS INC$10,000
THE PROGRAM FOUNDATION$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
STACY JOY GOODMAN MEMORIAL FUND$10,000
YOUTH RENEWAL FUND$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY SECURITY SERVICE: $25k → 17%COMMUNITY SECURITY SERVICE: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
NV
CA
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.6M · 13 repeat orgs$507k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 6 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

13
19

Total granted

$9.6M
$477k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+39%

Still filing today

77%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationHealthPhilanthropyCivil RightsArts & CultureOther

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

  • BF
    Brothers for Life
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +212%
  • FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
    3× · 2019–2021 · $600k · revenue +115%
  • AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE
    2× · 2019–2022 · $110k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +20%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • CF
    Central Fund of Israelgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +145%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
Sherit Isroel
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4
Idf Memorial Foundation
Philanthropy
5
The Jerusalem Connection
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6
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
7
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
8
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
9
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
10
Foundation for Conservative Judiasm of South Florida
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11
Jewish Life Foundation
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12
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network and the most unlike its peers is Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco Marin & Peninsula. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%23%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%84%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,732

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $6,500,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $600,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES+4 more — $105,000 · InternationalBrothers for Life — $1,450,000 · Arts & CultureBrothers for Lif…JDRF THERAPEUTICS FUNDS LLC — $400,000 · OtherJDRF THERAP…CHABAD AT DARTMOUTH — $190,000 · OtherCHABAD AT D…TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE — $100,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF…FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH OF ISRAEL — $98,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF …WIZO - WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL ZIONIST ORGANIZATION — $36,000 · OtherCommunity Security Service — $50,000 · OtherTHE STACY JOY GOODMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · Other+11 more — $110,500 · Other+11 moreGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTEAM IMPACT INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $10,000 · PhilanthropyNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · HealthInternational Lone Soldiers INC — $20,000 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC — $5,000 · HealthAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $110,000 · Civil RightsTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationGATESTONE INSTITUTE — $15,920 · EducationYOUTH RENEWAL FUND — $15,000 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $10,000 · Education
International$7,205,000Arts & Culture$1,450,000Other$1,019,500Philanthropy$130,000Health$125,000Civil Rights$110,000Education$90,920

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION — $6,500,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetBrothers for Life — $1,450,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES — $600,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER MIAMI JEWISH FEDERATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Security Service — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTEAM IMPACT INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STACY JOY GOODMAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Lone Soldiers INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDR MIRIAM AND SHELDON G ADELSON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGATESTONE INSTITUTE — $15,920 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH RENEWAL FUND — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIFT OF LIFE MARROW REGISTRY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Thomas D & Denise R 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report 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

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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How do I get to Thomas D & Denise R Stern Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Thomas D & Denise R Stern 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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