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Eternal Star Foundation at a glance

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Eternal Star Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$117kInternational$17kEducation$15kEnvironment$14kAnimals$11kHealth$9kCivil Rights$8kArts & Culture$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$80,055
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION$80,055
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $200 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
DC
HI
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$178k · 12 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$178k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+30%

Still filing today

92%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalCivil RightsEnvironmentAnimalsPhilanthropyHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $9k · revenue +39%
  • SE
    SANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA
    3× · 2020–2022 · $9k · revenue +77%
  • RT
    RAINFOREST TRUST
    3× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • SF
    SEVA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +43%
  • II
    ID INSIGHT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -40%
  • N
    NPR
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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3
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
4
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
5
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
6
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
7
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
10
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
11
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
12
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wikimedia Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Educate Girls Globally. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC: $116,640 · PhilanthropyGIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRON…RAINFOREST TRUST: $8,105 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUSTEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA: $6,000 · InternationalEKAL VIDYALAYA FOU…SEVA FOUNDATION: $3,000 · InternationalSEVA FOUNDATIONID INSIGHT INC: $3,000 · InternationalID INSIGHT INCTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $2,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCE…+2 more: $2,000 · International+2 moreInternational Anti Poaching Foundation: $6,188 · OtherInternational …NPR: $3,000 · OtherNPREKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherEKAL VIDYALAYA…Individual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual gra…NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: $3,000 · OtherNATIONAL PUBLI…KEIKI CIRCLES OF LOVE HAWAII: $1,000 · OtherWCS: $1,000 · OtherSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $3,000 · OtherSEA SHEPHERD C…WILDAID INC: $2,000 · OtherWILDAID INC+2 more: $300 · OtherTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $7,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,500 · Civil RightsACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $1,000 · Civil RightsSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $9,000 · HealthWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · EducationENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $4,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,000 · Environment
Philanthropy$116,640International$33,105Other$25,488Civil Rights$9,500Health$9,000Education$6,000Environment$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGIVE LIVELY FOUNDATION INC: $116,640 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANKARA EYE FOUNDATION USA: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $8,105 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEKAL VIDYALAYA FOUNDATION OF USA: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEVA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetID INSIGHT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDAID INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATE GIRLS GLOBALLY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCharity Navigator: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA5.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Eternal Star Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eternal Star Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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