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Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
54%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 28
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$421k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 54% of the organizations Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthCivil RightsEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$32k55%
FY202313$22k54%
FY20228$17k75%
FY202117$23k29%
FY202013$16k23%
FY201928$30k43%
FY201824$24k63%
FY201712$21kn/a
80% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$44kHealth$29kEnvironment$29kCivil Rights$10kEducation$6kAnimals$6kHuman Services$5kReligion$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 37 grantees
All grantees of Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kaupo Community Association Inc$13,500514%
Hawaiian Islands Land Trust$9,00031%
Hospice Maui Inc$8,00030%
Kimokeo Foundation$8,00043%
Maui Arts & Cultural Center$8,00050%
Maui Health Foundation$5,00020%
University of Hawaii Foundation$5,00030%
Anti-Defamation League$4,00020%
Wamc$4,00030%
Historic Hawai'I Foundation$4,00030%
Hawaii Public Radio$3,50050%
Maui Academy of Performing Arts$3,50040%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$3,00010%
Maui Tomorrow Foundation Inc$2,5001n/a
Environment Hawaii Inc$2,50051%
Go Maui Inc$2,00012%
Diaz Memorial Ambulance Service Inc$2,00010%
Grace Institute of New York Inc$2,00020%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$2,00010%
Upstate Films Ltd$2,00010%
Nisei Veterans Memorial Center$2,00010%
Binhi at Ani$1,40022%
Maui Historical Society$1,00011%
Boy Scouts of America-Aloha Council #104$1,00020%
Hanona$1,0001n/a
Ashokan Center Inc$1,00010%
Wailuku Community Association$1,0001n/a
Family of Woodstock Inc$1,00010%
International Zen Dojo of Maui$1,0001n/a
Ohana Makamae Inc$1,00010%
Woodstock School of Art Inc$1,00010%
Jewish Congregation of Maui Inc$5001n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of Maui Inc$50010%
Woodstock Theatre Festival Inc$50012%
Faith Action for Community Equity$50010%
Maui Taiko$2501n/a
Rotary Club of Kahului$25011%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($76k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKaupo Community Association Inc: $13,500 over 5y, 14% of budgetHawaiian Islands Land Trust: $9,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHospice Maui Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKimokeo Foundation: $8,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMaui Arts & Cultural Center: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMaui Health Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Hawaii Foundation: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAnti-Defamation League: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWamc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Hawai'I Foundation: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHawaii Public Radio: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMaui Academy of Performing Arts: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironment Hawaii Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGo Maui Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDiaz Memorial Ambulance Service Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrace Institute of New York Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUpstate Films Ltd: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNisei Veterans Memorial Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBinhi at Ani: $1,400 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMaui Historical Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBoy Scouts of America-Aloha Council #104: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAshokan Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily of Woodstock Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhana Makamae Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWoodstock School of Art Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Maui Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoodstock Theatre Festival Inc: $500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFaith Action for Community Equity: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRotary Club of Kahului: $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Fred Baldwin Memorial FoundationHI22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation · Atherton Family Foundation · Savitt Family Foundation · The Red Cabin Foundation Trust · Bank of Hawaii Charitable Fdn · Yokouchi Foundation · The Roy H and Lorraine M Okumura Foundation · David & Sylvia Teitelbaum Fund Inc · The Strong Foundation · Kvistad Foundation · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · Botton 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.

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About Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen

How much does Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen give?
Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen reported 23 grants totaling $31,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Health (16%), Environment (15%).
Who are Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kaupo Community Association Inc ($14k), Hawaiian Islands Land Trust ($9k), Hospice Maui Inc ($8k).
Does Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation, Atherton Family Foundation, Savitt Family Foundation.
Where is Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen based?
Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen is based in NY.

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 72 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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