California · 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.
- $86k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,552
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Bluestar Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 10 | $86k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $79k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $155k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $693k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $56k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $27k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $27k | 83% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $20k | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile Mantra Inc | $996,597 | 9 | 100% |
| Mountain Arts Network | $100,000 | 1 | 46% |
| Artists Space Inc | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Small Hope Bay Foundation Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Wildcare | $5,000 | 6 | 0% |
| International Snow Leopard Trust | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Greater Farallones Association | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Marin Agricultural Land Trust | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The New Village School | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| California Fire Foundation | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile Mantra Inc | $996,597 | 9 | 100% |
| Mountain Arts Network | $100,000 | 1 | 46% |
| Artists Space Inc | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Small Hope Bay Foundation Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Wildcare | $5,000 | 6 | 0% |
| International Snow Leopard Trust | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Greater Farallones Association | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Marin Agricultural Land Trust | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The New Village School | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| California Fire Foundation | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sierra Club | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| California Marine Sanctuary Foundation | $200 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($36k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bluestar Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Bluestar Charitable Foundation
- How much does Bluestar Charitable Foundation give?
- Bluestar Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $85,611 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bluestar Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (84%), Arts & Culture (12%), Environment (3%).
- Who are Bluestar Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mobile Mantra Inc ($997k), Mountain Arts Network ($100k), Artists Space Inc ($28k).
- Does Bluestar Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bluestar Charitable 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 Bluestar Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Bluestar Charitable Foundation based?
- Bluestar Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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