The Stiller Family Foundation makes a small number of very large, targeted grants focused on social impact and community well‑being. Its giving in this dataset is dominated by a major investment in early childhood advocacy/policy work, with secondary support for arts-based therapeutic programming. The foundation appears willing to make transformative single gifts rather than many small awards.
Highly concentrated giving: very large, one-off or limited-number grants to a small set of organizations rather than distributed, small grants; appears willing to fund both advocacy/policy work and programmatic arts therapy with multi-hundred-thousand to multi-million dollar awards.
A $3,000,000 grant to Let’s Grow Kids anchors the Stiller Family Foundation c/o Sunrise Management Services LLC’s recent giving and shows how concentrated its philanthropy is: a small number of very large grants aimed at policy and systems change. In the dataset, the foundation’s support is centered on statewide early childhood advocacy and policy, with a second line of funding for arts-based therapeutic programming and creative healing. That pattern suggests a funder that backs mission-driven organizations through substantial, targeted awards rather than a broad portfolio of small gifts. The foundation also appears willing to continue support over time. Let’s Grow Kids received another grant in 2023, though at a much smaller level, while The Peace Studio Inc received two grants in consecutive years, indicating that some recipients can appear more than once in the record. The Peace Studio’s awards sit within the foundation’s arts and mental health orientation, while Acumen Fund Inc received a smaller grant that fits the broader capacity-building theme in the dataset. Across these examples, the common thread is targeted support for organizations pursuing defined public-benefit goals.
Early childhood policy and systems change are central to this foundation’s giving. The largest example is the $3,000,000 grant to Let’s Grow Kids in 2024, paired with a prior $3,750 award to the same organization in 2023. That repetition points to sustained interest in early childhood advocacy rather than one-off support. Arts-based therapeutic work is another clear theme. The Peace Studio Inc received $267,500 in 2023 and $210,000 in 2024, indicating continued backing for creative-healing and music/arts therapy work. The foundation also made a $25,000 grant to Acumen Fund Inc in 2024, which aligns with its stated capacity-building and mission-driven nonprofit support. Taken together, the named grants show a mix of policy, therapeutic arts, and organizational-strengthening priorities.
Grant sizes are highly uneven: the typical award sits at p25 $25,000, median $210,000, and p75 $267,500, with one outlier at $3,000,000. That spread fits a high-concentration approach where a few large grants dominate annual giving. The record also shows repeat support across years, including two recipients that appear in both 2023 and 2024. The foundation is a regular funder rather than a DAF, makes no program-related investments, and does not fund individuals. No application process is shown in the data.
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$97K
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Most grants fall between $25K and $268K, with a median of $210K.
25th Percentile
$25K
Median
$210K
75th Percentile
$268K
About 0% of grants go to recipients in NY.
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Notable grantees: Let’s Grow Kids, The Peace Studio Inc
Grant recipients are entirely in the U.S., with New York receiving the most grants by count. Named recipient locations in the record include Middlebury, Vermont, and New York, New York. Although the foundation’s headquarters are in West Palm Beach, Florida, none of the listed grants went to Florida-based recipients. The geographic pattern is regional rather than national, with a small set of U.S. recipients capturing all recorded grants.
The clearest themes are statewide early childhood advocacy and policy, arts-based therapeutic programming, and capacity-building support for mission-driven nonprofits. The largest recent grant went to Let’s Grow Kids for early childhood systems work, while The Peace Studio Inc received two grants tied to arts and creative-healing programming.
Yes. Let’s Grow Kids appears in both 2023 and 2024, and The Peace Studio Inc also received grants in consecutive years. That pattern suggests the foundation can continue support for selected organizations over time rather than giving only one-time awards.
The distribution is skewed toward large awards: p25 is $25,000, median is $210,000, and p75 is $267,500. The recent record also includes a $3,000,000 grant, showing that the foundation can make very large, targeted commitments.
All recorded grants go to U.S. recipients. New York is the top state by grant count, and named recipient cities in the data include New York, New York, and Middlebury, Vermont. No grants in the dataset went to recipients in Florida.
2026
Source: IRS Form 990-PF, fiscal year 2026.
Most recent grants reported to the IRS.
| Recipient | Location | Amount | Year | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Let's Grow Kids | Middlebury, VT | $3,000,000 | 2024 | CHARITY |
| The Peace Studio Inc | New York, NY | $210,000 | 2024 | CHARITY |
| Acumen Fund Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 2024 | CHARITY |
| The Peace Studio Inc | New York, NY | $267,500 | 2023 | CHARITY |
| Let's Grow Kids | Middlebury, VT | $3,750 | 2023 | CHARITY |