North Carolina · Private foundation
William a Stern 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.
- $132k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations William a Stern Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 57 | $127k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 60 | $136k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $110k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $106k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 64 | $123k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $101k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 53 | $95k | 15% |
| FY2018 | 51 | $101k | 16% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greensboro Urban Ministry | $60,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cape Fear Community College Foundation Inc | $47,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Interactive Resource Center Inc | $32,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc | $27,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Greensboro Public Library Foundation Inc | $26,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Preservation Greensboro Inc | $22,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Uncw Corporation | $21,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Guilford College | $20,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Piedmont Land Conservancy | $17,000 | 9 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 63 recipients with no EIN on record ($502k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget William a Stern Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Hummel Family Fund Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Reynolds American Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · North Carolina Community Foundation · Well-Spring Retirement Community Inc · The Mary Lynn Richardson Fund · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas
How this is measured
About William a Stern Foundation
- How much does William a Stern Foundation give?
- William a Stern Foundation reported 59 grants totaling $131,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does William a Stern Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Human Services (12%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are William a Stern Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greensboro Urban Ministry ($60k), Cape Fear Community College Foundation Inc ($47k), The Interactive Resource Center Inc ($32k).
- Does William a Stern Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William a Stern Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William a Stern Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc, The Hummel Family Fund Inc.
- Where is William a Stern Foundation based?
- William a Stern Foundation is based in NC.
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