How much does Blue Star Foundation give?

Blue Star Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $468,315 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Blue Star Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (94%), Education (2%), Health (1%).

Who are Blue Star Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Congregation Sons of Israel ($19k), Bikur Cholim of Manhattan Inc ($19k), Achiezer Community Resource Center Inc ($5k).

Does Blue Star Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Blue Star 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 Blue Star Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Ojc Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.

Where is Blue Star Foundation based?

Blue Star Foundation is based in NJ.

Blue Star Foundation

Blue Star Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Blue Star 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.

$468k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$468k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.4MEducation$35kHealth$21kReligion$20kHuman Services$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kArts & Culture$295International$280

02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$468,315

Median grant

States reached

$95k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CONTRIBUTIONS OF 468315 DETAILS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST	$468,315

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

4%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$55k · 4 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +373% since the first grant, against +99% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$55k

$951k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+373%

+99%

Still filing today

25%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $468k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationArts & 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

MD
MANHATTAN DAY SCHOOL
2× · 2017–2018 · $35k
BC
BIKUR CHOLIM OF MANHATTAN INC
2× · 2017–2018 · $19k · revenue +373%
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EMUNAH
2× · 2017–2018 · $672

Funded once

CO
CONTRIBUTIONS OF 310345 DETAILS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
one grant, 2024 · $310k
CO
CONTRIBUTIONS OF 218562 DETAILS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
one grant, 2022 · $219k
CO
CONTRIBUTIONS OF 178161 DETAILS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
one grant, 2023 · $178k

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.

Sherit Isroel

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Keren Yaakov Ben Menachen Tzvi Foundation

Philanthropy

Ohr Meir Ubracha

The organization provides financial assistance to victims of acts of terrorism in the state of israel.

Philanthropy

Bikur Cholim of Ny Inc

Medical Guidance

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Zichron Avrohom Yosef

Philanthropy

The Nochim & Rivka Zeldes Foundation

—

Gemilas Chesed Kramer Inc

Philanthropy

Matan B'seter Bambiinc

None

Human Services

Bnei Moshe

Philanthropy

Magen David of Manhattan

The organization maintains a jewish community center to provide social and educational services to the jewish community in new york city, new york.

Religion

Yeshiva Ohr Yisroel

Philanthropy

Smach Zevilin of Ny Inc

To provide financial aid and assistance to the poor, sick & disabled people, and monetary support to needy families in time of need.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Matan Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. 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

9 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. 9 of the 31 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/9

Grantees still filing

9/9

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,444,438Health$19,750Human Services$7,500Education$2,000Arts & Culture$295International$280

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 FundNY16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Ojc Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Blue Star Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Star Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get 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 · 0–10%

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Blue Star Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Blue Star 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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home