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International Foundation of the Seven Stars at a glance

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International Foundation of the Seven Stars

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.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$845kHuman Services$47kInternational$41kYouth Development$20kHealth$18kEducation$15kCivil Rights$5kAnimals$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUSTIN RIDGE BIBLE CHURCH$13,000
WESTLAKE BIBLE CHRCH$6,225
OC INTERNATIONAL$5,000
AFRICA INLAND MISSION$5,000
THE CHURCH OF RANCHO BERNARDO$5,000
WARRINER NATIONAL FOUNDATION$2,500
AFRICA RENEWAL MINISTRY$2,400
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $3k → 8%INDIGENT INDIVIDUALS RECEIVING LESS THAN 1000 EACH: $1k → 11%WARRINER NATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%TGA PREMIER SPORTS YOUTH PROGRAM: $1k → 14%WARRIOR NATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%AFRICA RENEWAL MINISTRY: $17k → 16%THE SOURCE TEXAS: $5k → 16%PROJECT BACKPACK: $80 → 11%PRIMARY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $2k → 8%AFRICA INLAND MISSION: $5k → 6%OC INTERNATIONAL: $5k → 9%ECKE YMCA: $500 → 11%AUSTIN RIDGE BIBLE CHURCH: $121k → 10%AFRICA RENEWAL MINISTRY: $7k → 16%AFRICAN INLAND MISSION: $5k → 6%OC INTERNATIONAL: $3k → 9%THE CHURCH OF RANCHO BERNARDO: $5k → 11%WESTLAKE BIBLE CHRCH: $109k → 10%AFRICA RENEWAL MINISTRY: $2k → 16%OC INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 9%THE CHURCH AT RANCHO BERNARDO: $3k → 11%AUSTIN RIDGE BIBLE CHURCH: $85k → 10%AFRICA RENEWAL MINISTRY: $2k → 16%THE CHURCH OF RANCHO BERNARDO: $3k → 11%WESTLAKE BIBLE CHRCH: $71k → 10%AFRICA RENEWAL MINISTRY: $2k → 16%THE CHURCH OF RANCHO BERNARDO: $2k → 11%WESTLAKE BIBLE CHRCH: $52k → 10%THE CHURCH AT RB: $500 → 11%WESTLAKE BIBLE CHRCH: $51k → 10%AUSTIN RIDGE BIBLE CHURCH: $24k → 10%AUSTIN RIDGE BIBLE CHURCH: $13k → 10%AUSTIN LIFE CARE: $3k → 10%AUSTIN RIDGE BIBLE CHURGE: $7k → 10%AUSTIN LIFE CARE: $700 → 10%WESTLAKE BIBLE CHRCH: $6k → 10%THE NOBELITY PROJECT: $15k → 10%THE BLESS FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%THE BLESS FOUNDATION: $60k → 10%THE BLESS FOUNDATION: $55k → 10%AUSTIN RIDGE BIBLE CHURCH: $32k → 10%THE BLESS FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%WARRIOR NATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ARCHBALD PROJECT: $25k → 10%THE SOURCE TEXAS: $3k → 10%AUSTIN PETS ALIVE: $750 → 10%AUSTIN PETS ALIVE: $500 → 10%AUSTIN PETS ALIVE: $400 → 10%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

CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
DC
GA
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$900k · 10 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
18

Total granted

$900k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-3%

Still filing today

50%
28%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AR
    AFRICA RENEWAL MINISTRIES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $32k · revenue +78%
  • AL
    Austin Lifecare
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3k · revenue +287%
  • AP
    AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • AP
    ARCHBALD PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TB
    THE BLESS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • TN
    The Nobelity Project
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -67%
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
Target Als Foundation Inc

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…

Education
2
A Glimmer of Hope Foundation Austin
Philanthropy
3
Throw a Dog a Bone Dog Rescue

Throw a Dog a Bone is an all-breed dog rescue located in Austin, TX. We focus on saving dogs primarily in the rural shelters in South Texas. Many of these shelters have no exposure and very few resources. Our mission is to rescue as many…

Animals
4
Untrafficked Inc
Human Services
5
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
6
Austin Allies

Austin Allies' mission is to organize meaningful volunteer opportunities for families in the Greater Austin area by partnering with local nonprofits and those that they serve. Austin Allies is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization started by…

Youth Development
7
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
8
Austin Task Inc
Employment
9
Atx Helps

ATX Helps was created to fill gaps in the spectrum of services available to people in Austin who are experiencing homelessness.

Human Services
10
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
11
The Pollination Project Foundation

The pollination project foundation (tpp) provides catalytic seed funding to expert volunteers driving grassroots, community-led change around the world. grounded in heartivism - the practice of pairing compassion with action - tpp funds…

Human Services
12
The Giving Rose Foundation Atx
Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Pets Alive Inc; the most unlike its peers is Austin Lifecare. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 29 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTLAKE BIBLE CHURCH: $563,630 · OtherWESTLAKE BIBLE CHURCHARCHBALD PROJECT: $25,000 · Other+20 more: $90,941 · Other+20 moreThe Bless Foundation: $240,000 · PhilanthropyThe Bless FoundationAFRICA RENEWAL MINISTRIES INC: $32,000 · InternationalTHE WARRIOR NATIONAL FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Nobelity Project: $14,500 · EducationAustin Lifecare: $3,200 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 · HealthALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY: $2,500 · Human Services
Other$679,571Philanthropy$240,000International$32,000Youth Development$20,000Education$14,500Health$5,700Human Services$2,500

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 budgetThe Bless Foundation: $240,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetAFRICA RENEWAL MINISTRIES INC: $32,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Nobelity Project: $14,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAustin Lifecare: $3,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY: $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $1,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds The Bless Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AFRICA RENEWAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WARRIOR NATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Nobelity Project ↗
  • Who funds Austin Lifecare ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIES AGAINST SLAVERY ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN YMBL SUNSHINE CAMP ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT BACKPACK ↗

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.

Servant FoundationThe US Charitable Gif…Christian Community F…Renaissance Charitabl…Natl Christian Charit…Raymond James Charita…The Signatry Charitab…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
Servant FoundationKS16× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 International Foundation of the Seven Stars funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Foundation of the Seven Stars. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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