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Anne & Jacob Starr Foundation at a glance

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Anne & Jacob Starr 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.

$254k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$120kEducation$106kReligion$94kHealth$67kEnvironment$54kCivil Rights$50kPublic Benefit$50kArts & Culture$49kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $200k
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNT SINAI VISITING DOCTORS PROGRA$25,000
AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION$20,000
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LANDS TRUST$20,000
NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY$15,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSIPTI$10,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$10,000
FRIENDS OF ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES$10,000
KAUPO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$10,000
CAMERA$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIV$10,000
US-CUMBERLAND COLLEGE$10,000
AMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY$10,000
DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION$10,000
MEMRI$10,000
COMPTETIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE$10,000
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 (FY20–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LOVE XYZ INC: $3k → 13%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 16%Charity Navigator: $250 → 7%Gallop NYC: $5k → 13%Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind: $5k → 16%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%GALLOP NYC: $500 → 13%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $5k → 16%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%GALLOP NYC: $500 → 13%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $3k → 16%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $250 → 7%GALLOP NYC: $250 → 13%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 16%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $50 → 7%FREEDOM GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $500 → 16%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $50 → 7%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $500 → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $300 → 17%ENCORE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 17%Encore Community Services: $5k → 17%ENCORE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 17%ENCORE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 17%ENCORE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 17%ENCORE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $500 → 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

VT
NH
WA
ID
MI
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
KY
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$649k · 65 repeat orgs$126k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
46

Total granted

$649k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+14%

Still filing today

66%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • TR
    THE REASON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +41%
  • HI
    HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST
    3× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +250%
  • CF
    COMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +34%
  • BF
    Brothers for Life
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • TS
    THE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +73%
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.

1
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
6
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
7
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
8
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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11
For the Fishes

To address, educate, coordinate, and enhance enforcement capacity to end teh trade in coral reef wildlife for household and other small display aquariums. our supply and demand side strategies are directed locally and globally to…

Animals
12
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stuttering Foundation of America. 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

81 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 81 of the 120 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/81
Grantees still filing
56/81
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MOUNT SINAI VISITING DOCTORS PROGRA: $40,000 · OtherMOUNT SINAI VISITING DOCTORS PROGRABETHEL GOSPEL ASSEMBLY INC: $36,250 · OtherBETHEL GOSPEL ASSEMBLY INCAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION: $35,000 · OtherAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURIONAMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETY: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN TECHNION SOCIETYFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN: $17,000 · OtherUS-CUMBERLAND COLLEGE: $14,000 · Other+76 more: $230,471 · Other+76 moreTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $45,500 · EducationTHE REASON FOUNDAT…HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $21,776 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $20,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR BEN-…PS 130-M PARENT'S ASSOCIATION: $19,400 · EducationPS 130-M PARENT'S …The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $17,750 · EducationThe New York Publi…+6 more: $7,507 · Education+6 moreCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $29,500 · InternationalCOMMITTEE FOR AC…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $25,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS…MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $20,750 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST MEDI…FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE I…MAP International Inc: $13,500 · InternationalMAP Internationa…HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $11,000 · InternationalHIMALAYAN CATARA…+1 more: $500 · InternationalFreedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $19,000 · Human ServicesENCORE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $17,000 · Human ServicesGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $5,750 · Human ServicesLOVE XYZ INC: $3,000 · Human Services+3 more: $2,200 · Human ServicesNew York Civil Rights Coalition Inc: $15,200 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $11,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN FREEDOM DEFENSE INITIATIVE: $10,500 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Civil RightsFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $2,500 · Civil RightsHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $30,500 · EnvironmentHAWAII UNITES: $7,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN SIGN MUSEUM: $12,650 · Arts & CultureBrothers for Life: $10,000 · Arts & CultureINKBOAT INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,435 · Arts & Culture
Other$397,721Education$131,933International$120,250Human Services$46,950Civil Rights$43,200Environment$37,500Arts & Culture$27,085

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 budgetTHE REASON FOUNDATION: $45,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $30,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $29,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $21,776 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $20,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPS 130-M PARENT'S ASSOCIATION: $19,400 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetFreedom Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $19,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $17,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENCORE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $17,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Civil Rights Coalition Inc: $15,200 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetMAP International Inc: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SIGN MUSEUM: $12,650 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FREEDOM DEFENSE INITIATIVE: $10,500 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetGrant Monument Association Inc: $10,250 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetBrothers for Life: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETH-HARK CHRISTIAN COUNSELING CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CAJUN NAVY RELIEF INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKAUPO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetCENTER FOR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT: $8,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII UNITES: $7,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetGRASSROOT INSTITUTE OF HAWAII INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $5,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHANA HEALTH: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAVAGE FREEDOMS RELIEF OPERATIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHERRY KIDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC: $3,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINKBOAT INC: $3,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetLOVE XYZ INC: $3,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,375 over 5y, 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.

Donors Trust IncAtlas Economic Resear…Bradley Impact Fund I…The Tapestry Foundati…The Red Cabin Foundat…Garvey Kansas Foundat…Adolph Coors Foundati…Atherton Family Found…Jewish Communal FundThe Yelp FoundationThe New York Communit…Greater Houston Commu…
Donors Trust IncVA20.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Tapestry Foundation Inc · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · Garvey Kansas Foundation · Adolph Coors Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Yelp Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Greater Houston Community 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 Anne & Jacob Starr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anne & Jacob Starr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 120 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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