· Private foundation
Daystar 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 $10k4 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $48k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION | $50,000 |
| RIDGEFIELD VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION | $47,800 |
| THE ANN CHILDREN'S FUND | $9,000 |
| THE TOWN OF RIDGEFIELD | $5,578 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,257 |
| SEMPER FI FUND | $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 (FY18–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 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, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- RIRVNAHEALTH INC6× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +231%
- GLGENEROUS LIFE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $40k · revenue +25%
- ACANN CHILDREN'S FUND INC2× · 2022–2025 · $19k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- CPCAZENOVIA PARK BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $22k
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue ×103
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $12k
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.
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The Rushford Foundation is committed to ensuring access to high quality behavioral healthcare services by managing financial support for Rushford Center Inc.'s mission.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Managing endowment funds for hebrew health care and affiliates.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christs healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Provide funding to charities in fulfillment of the exempt purposes of national christian charitable foundation, inc. ("nccf"), by empowering and ministering to the weak and the poor, to assist in training disciples, and to partner with…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Equipping followers of christ to give wisely to advance his kingdom by inspiring biblical stewardship and generosity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Transformation Life Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 45 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 RVNAHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds KEELER TAVERN ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds GENEROUS LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANN CHILDREN'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE A MIRACLE CORP ↗
- Who funds Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds CHARLEY'S FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSFORMATION LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Association of Religious Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHICK MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HANDFULS OF HOPE INC ↗
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: Patrick Foundation · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Taylor-Zemo Foundation Inc · Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · The Goldstone Family Foundation · Diageo North America Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 Daystar 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Saint Joseph Parenting Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Ridgefield Historical Society Inc — 7% of income from government
- Association of Religious Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
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.