California · Private foundation
Michael Stars Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $153k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $451k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Michael Stars Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 | 12 | $143k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $128k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $144k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $161k | 85% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $127k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $150k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $73k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Step Up Women's Network | $161,747 | 7 | 1% |
| Tender Foundation Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 24% |
| Children Mending Hearts Inc | $59,100 | 6 | 6% |
| Fund for Women's Equality Inc | $53,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Take the Lead Inc | $50,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Edward Charles Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Givelove | $35,000 | 1 | 16% |
| ACLU Foundation of Southern California | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Voto Latino Foundation Inc | $16,700 | 1 | 0% |
| March On | $16,700 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($111k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michael Stars 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: California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Edward Charles Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Novo Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Chicago Community Trust
How this is measured
About Michael Stars Foundation
- How much does Michael Stars Foundation give?
- Michael Stars Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $152,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Michael Stars Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (25%), Civil Rights (16%), International (12%).
- Who are Michael Stars Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Step Up Women's Network ($162k), Tender Foundation Inc ($60k), Children Mending Hearts Inc ($59k).
- Does Michael Stars Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Michael Stars Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Michael Stars Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Impactassetsinc.
- Where is Michael Stars Foundation based?
- Michael Stars Foundation is based in CA.
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