· Private foundation
Gem 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN IN FILM AND VIDEO | $6,000 |
| CARDOZA LAW SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MELANOMA RESEARCH ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MADISON AREA YMCA | $5,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| AVALON THEATRE | $3,500 |
| HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND STUDENT CRISIS FUND | $1,500 |
| FRENCH AMERICAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION | $750 |
| ALLIANCE FRANCAISE | $750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| IMAGINATION STAGE | $500 |
| SAVE BARNEGAT BAY | $500 |
| WEST TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MADISON NJ8× · 2018–2025 · $65k · revenue +24%
- TMTHE MORRIS MUSEUM INC3× · 2017–2019 · $61k · revenue +11%
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- FRFIRST REFORMED CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $7k
- FRFIRST REFORMED CHURCH- SCHENECTADYone grant, 2019 · $5k
- HSHOMELESS SOLUTIONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +101%
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.
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
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How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MADISON NJ ↗
- Who funds THE MORRIS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO INC ↗
- Who funds MANNHEIMER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVALON THEATRE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HEARING HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DIABETES ACTION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVE BARNEGAT BAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH-AMERICAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WEST TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gem Star Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gem Star Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Morris Museum Inc: 7% of income from government
- Homeless Solutions Inc: 6% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Madison Nj: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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