· Private foundation
Darren 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.
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
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT ANGEL FOOD | $250,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $25,000 |
| HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $20,000 |
| TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOLS CORPORATION | $15,000 |
| NATIONAL REHABILITATION HOSPITAL INC | $15,000 |
| FAMILY EQUALITY | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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 — 4 still active in FY2025, 8 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- PAPROJECT ANGEL FOOD5× · 2019–2025 · $785k · revenue +273%
- TETRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL6× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +21%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC5× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- SHSAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -97%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INCone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +22%
- SHSAG HARBOR CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC CO SUSAN MEADgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +77%
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.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The mission of healthix inc. is to create an achievable, sustainable and replicable model for integrating clinical information across multiple health care organizations which supports new york state and federal strategic health information…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Campaign Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dap Health Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 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. 40 of the 43 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 PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION COUNCIL OF GREATER LA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REHABILITATION HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR CINEMA ARTS CENTER INC CO SUSAN MEAD ↗
- Who funds THE HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds KEEP BEL AIR BEAUTIFUL ↗
- Who funds The Defiant Requiem Foundation ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds JOYFUL HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SAG HARBOR COMM FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK WOMEN IN FILM & TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds Extraordinary Families ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds Larchmont-Mamaroneck Hunger Task Force Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds DAP Health Inc ↗
- Who funds Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GLSEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER 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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The New York Community Trust · Daniel M Neidich & Brooke Garber Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Darren Star 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.