Delaware · 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.
- $360k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Darren Star Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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 | 5 | $315k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $494k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $372k | 42% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $55k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $205k | 93% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $110k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $118k | 86% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $10k | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project Angel Food | $785,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc | $250,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trinity Episcopal School | $90,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Dia Center for the Arts Inc | $70,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of the High Line Inc | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Friends of the Louvre Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sag Harbor Partnership Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sag Harbor Cinema Arts Center Inc Co Susan Mead | $35,000 | 1 | 1% |
| National Rehabilitation Hospital | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Darren Star Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About Darren Star Foundation
- How much does Darren Star Foundation give?
- Darren Star Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $360,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Darren Star Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (44%), Arts & Culture (32%), Education (6%).
- Who are Darren Star Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Project Angel Food ($785k), Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc ($250k), Trinity Episcopal School ($90k).
- Does Darren Star Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Darren 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 Darren Star Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Darren Star Foundation based?
- Darren Star Foundation is based in DE.
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