Delaware · Private foundation
Lawrence D Starr Charitable 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.
- $50k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
75% of Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $50k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $50k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $40k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $24k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $24k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $40k | 86% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $12k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park University | $95,528 | 5 | 0% |
| Pomona College | $45,242 | 6 | 0% |
| New Reform Temple | $22,901 | 6 | n/a |
| Operation Breakthrough Inc | $19,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Kansas City Hospice Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chabad on Campus at Claremont | $4,420 | 5 | n/a |
| Boys Club of Greater Kansas City | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Powell Gardens Inc | $2,400 | 2 | 0% |
| The Friends of Chamber Music | $1,234 | 1 | 0% |
| Benilde Hall | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 19 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park University | $95,528 | 5 | 0% |
| Pomona College | $45,242 | 6 | 0% |
| New Reform Temple | $22,901 | 6 | n/a |
| Operation Breakthrough Inc | $19,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Kansas City Hospice Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chabad on Campus at Claremont | $4,420 | 5 | n/a |
| Boys Club of Greater Kansas City | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Powell Gardens Inc | $2,400 | 2 | 0% |
| The Friends of Chamber Music | $1,234 | 1 | 0% |
| Benilde Hall | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Halo Foundation | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| First Generation Investors | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Nelson Gallery Foundation | $422 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts | $204 | 1 | 0% |
| Public Television 19 Inc | $190 | 3 | 0% |
| Folds of Honor Kansas City Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The H & R Block Foundation · Copaken Family Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Linda T Watson Family Foundation · Hartley Family Foundation · R C Kemper Charitable Trust 10017800 · William T Kemper Charitable Trust 10015200 · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Bluescope Foundation North America
How this is measured
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About Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation
- How much does Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation give?
- Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $49,658 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Philanthropy (34%), Religion (9%).
- Who are Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Park University ($96k), Pomona College ($45k), New Reform Temple ($23k).
- Does Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City, The H & R Block Foundation.
- Where is Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation based?
- Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation is based in DE.
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