· Private foundation
Bluestar Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOBILE MANTRA | $30,552 |
| MOBILE MANTRA | $30,059 |
| ART ROCKS CLUB HOUSE | $5,000 |
| ARTISTS SPACE INC | $5,000 |
| CA TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $5,000 |
| SMALL HOPE BAY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| GAIANETWORK | $3,000 |
| WILDCARE | $1,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUS | $1,000 |
| MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| GREATER FARALLONES ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $997k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MMMobile Mantra Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $997k · revenue +44% · 100% of their budget
- ASARTISTS SPACE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +45%
- WWILDCARE6× · 2019–2025 · $5k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- MAMOUNTAIN ARTS NETWORKone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +1% · 46% of their budget
- TNTHE NEW VILLAGE SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -15%
- REREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANKgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +118%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The mission of the Ventana Wilderness Alliance is to protect, preserve, and restore the wilderness qualities and biodiversity of the public lands within California's northern Santa Lucia Mountains and Big Sur coast.
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
The Volcan Mountain Foundation's mission is to preserve Volcan Mountain Range in its natural state for all generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildcare and the most unlike its peers is Mountain Arts Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 20 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Mobile Mantra Inc ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN ARTS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds Small Hope Bay Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WILDCARE ↗
- Who funds GREATER FARALLONES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST ↗
- Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE NEW VILLAGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bluestar Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.