· Private foundation
Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of JONATHAN STARR FOUNDATION INC NIELSEN’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHERN DUTCHESS HOSPITAL FOUNDATI | $5,000 |
| WOODSTOCK RESCUE 5 | $3,000 |
| DIAZ MEMORIAL AMBULANCE SERVICE | $2,000 |
| WOODSTOCK FIRE CO 1 | $2,000 |
| WAMC NORTHEAST PUBLIC RADIO | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| MAVERICK CENTER | $1,000 |
| FAMILY OF WOODSTOCK INC | $1,000 |
| UPSTATE FILMS | $1,000 |
| UPSTATE FILMS LTD | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON VALLEY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| GRACE INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK | $1,000 |
| WKZE BROADCASTING CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 12 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, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- HIHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST3× · 2017–2019 · $9k · revenue +475%
- HMHOSPICE MAUI INC3× · 2019–2022 · $8k · revenue +58%
- KFKIMOKEO FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2023 · $8k · revenue +682%
Funded once
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -12%
- MTMAUI TOMORROW FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +45%
- AMAKAKU MAUI COMMUNITY MEDIAone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
Our mission is to protect, perpetuate, and enhance the cultural and natural landscape of the kiholo bay area through collaborative management and active community stewardship.
The mission is to protect and preserve the natural and cultural resources of the hana moku and the customary and traditional practices of native hawaiians of the region; to preserve and manage the area's natural, cultural, scenic, historic…
Kahea is a community-based organization working to improve the quality of life for hawai`i's people and future generations through the revitalization and protection of hawai`i's unique natural and cultural resources. kahea advocates for…
Na 'aikane o maui inc. mission is focused on preserving and promoting hawaiian culture and supporting the local community through the following aims: 1. serve as a cultural center for the community to learn about hawaii and pacific…
to rehabilitate, curate, and steward the natural and cultural resources of Kawa to honor the past, benefit the present, and preserve for the future generations of Ka'u, the Island of Hawaii and all humankind.
The kuali'i foundation's mission is to support the purposes and functions of manoa heritage center by owning, preserving and maintaining an historic property to benefit the public and promote an understanding of hawaii's cultural and…
Secure, stabilized, protect, restore, and maintain cultural lands and archaeoligical sites on maui particularly in the valleys of honokowai, launiupoko, and kaheawa, clearing, non-native, and replanting with native plants, stabilize…
Papahana kuaola's mission is to create quality educational programs focused on environmental restoration and economic sustainability fully integrated with hawaiian knowledge in order to exemplify a lifestyle respectful of kanaka, `aina,…
The society is dedicated to preserving historical materials relating to hawaii, and to publishing scholarly research on hawaiian history so present and future peoples throughout the world will recognize and appreciate the history. the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Historic Hawai'i Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Woodstock Theatre Festival Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 72 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 KAUPO COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE MAUI INC ↗
- Who funds KIMOKEO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI ARTS & CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds WAMC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HAWAI'I FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds MAUI ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI TOMORROW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENT HAWAII INC ↗
- Who funds GO MAUI INC ↗
- Who funds DIAZ MEMORIAL AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE INSTITUTE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NISEI VETERANS MEMORIAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE FILMS LTD ↗
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: 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
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 Jonathan Starr Foundation Inc Nielsen 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.
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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