· Private foundation
Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $4k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $267k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STARLING PROJECT FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| THE SHEPHARD SCHOOL OF MUSIC - RICE UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER | $166,000 |
| THE COLBURN SCHOOL | $160,750 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $151,625 |
| ASPEN MUSIC FESTIVAL SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY | $141,000 |
| CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC | $105,000 |
| COLLEGE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $100,000 |
| SALT LAKE MUSIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION DBA GIFTED MUSIC SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| BOWDIN COLLEGE | $90,000 |
| SOUNDING POINT FOUNDATION | $85,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN | $75,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $65,000 |
| MEADOWMOUNT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $64,400 |
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 (FY22–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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
- TCTHE COLBURN SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $878k · revenue +40%
- NENEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC7× · 2018–2024 · $694k · revenue +41%
- CICURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC7× · 2018–2024 · $590k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- TFTHE FESTIVAL INSTITUTE AT ROUND TOPone grant, 2022 · $50k
FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +63%- SISTRING INSIDERSone grant, 2022 · $4k · 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.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
At MusicMi we set a mission for ourselves to provide aspiring young musicians from across the country with an opportunity to study with world-class artists and to provide our students with a music education of the highest artistic…
The music institute of chicago ("music institute") leads people toward a lifelong engagement with music, by providing widely accessible resources for high quality music teaching, performing, and service activities.
To seek and nurture exceptional young string musicians, foster and further their performance and professional skills development, and provide them with performance opportunities and monetary support.
The omaha conservatory of music is a non-profit school that builds a diverse musical community to enrich lives through education and performance.
Menlo school's mission is to empower students to explore and expand their interests, reach their fullest potential, develop the skills necessary for success in college, and become ethical, responsible, and engaged members of ever wider…
The Conference is devoted to the development of amateur and professional musicians as chamber players. The Conference is also committed to the development of new music by commissions and performances of new works by composers in residence.…
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…
The Charleston Academy of Music is committed to providing access to exceptional music education, performance and community outreach to all, regardless of age, skill, gender, ethnicity or income.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the most unlike its peers is University of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 36 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 THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ACADEMY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds Starling Project Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds KNEISEL HALL ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds COLEMAN VIOLIN STUDIO ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA SUZUKI STRINGS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDING POINT FOUNDATION CORP ↗
- Who funds ENCORE CHAMBER MUSIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds Madeline Island Chamber Music co Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE STRINGS ↗
- Who funds The Florida State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds STRING INSIDERS ↗
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 · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Dorothy Richard Starling 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.
- New England Conservatory of Music — 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.
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