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Thomas D & Denise R Stern Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$7.2MArts & Culture$1.4MHealth$625kReligion$293kEducation$219kCivil Rights$125kPhilanthropy$90kHuman Services$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
THE PROGRAM FOUNDATION$10,000
STACY JOY GOODMAN MEMORIAL FUND$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
INTERNATIONAL LONE SOLDIERS INC$10,000
YOUTH RENEWAL FUND$5,000
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 (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 its 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
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

NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
NV
CA
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Funders Network; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 37 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCommunity Security Service: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTEAM IMPACT INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Fund of Israel: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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 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

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 Thomas D & Denise R Stern Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas D & Denise R Stern Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 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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