· Private foundation
MJD Starfish Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $162k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Children's Medical Center Foundatio | $200,000 |
| The Commit Partnership | $50,000 |
| Lift for Life Foundation Inc | $50,000 |
| Comunities Foundation of Texas | $40,500 |
| The Commit Partnership | $25,000 |
| Grant Halliburton Foundation | $25,000 |
| American Friends of Natal Inc | $25,000 |
| Lift for Life Foundation Inc | $16,000 |
| Greenlight Fund Inc | $10,000 |
| Project Unity | $10,000 |
| North Texas Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Jonathan's Place | $7,500 |
| Hope's Door New Beginning Center | $7,500 |
| Mi Escuelita Preschool Inc | $5,000 |
| June Shelton School Evaluation Cent | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of MJD Starfish Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 10 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- LFLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +40%
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK2× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +28%
- GFGREENLIGHT FUND INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- CPColorado Parks and Recreation Associationone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +12%
- TFTHE FIT AND FOOD CONNECTIONone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue 0%
- NFNASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +36%
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.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The national domestic violence hotline provides crisis intervention, saftey planning, resources, information, and referrals to those affected by relationship abuse.
Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.
Tuesday's children provides healing and resilience for military families of the fallen and families affected by 9/11, turning pain into purpose while honoring their legacies. we exist to help families of the fallen and the 9/11 community…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Our mission is to provide quality mental health services to children and adults in low income families who are impacted by severe and persistent mental illness, emotional disturbances, child abuse and neglect, high-risk behaviors and…
Nurses for newborns (the organization) is a not-for-profit missouri corporation whose purpose is to provide home-based services to promote the health, safety, and well-being of babies and their families. the organization has two branches…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities Foundation of Texas Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Sisters Legacy. 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 19 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 28 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 COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTON LANDMARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC ↗
- Who funds GRANT HALLIBURTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Parks and Recreation Association ↗
- Who funds KID NET FOUNDATION JONATHANS PLACE ↗
- Who funds HOPE'S DOOR NEW BEGINNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FIT AND FOOD CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds JUNE SHELTON SCHOOL AND EVALUATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE FOOD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SHILOH PLACE MCKINNEY ↗
- Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds MI ESCUELITA PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MERGING VETS AND PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds ARMED SERVICES YMCA OF THE USA ↗
- Who funds 22KILL ↗
- Who funds Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds A SISTERS LEGACY ↗
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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Celanese Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 MJD Starfish Foundation 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.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.