Oregon · Private foundation
North Star 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.
- $71k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $70,900
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $70,900
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 40
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $656k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 73% of the organizations North Star Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 86% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 | 2 | $71k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $22k | 73% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $19k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $31k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $77k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $64k | 55% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $75k | 75% |
| FY2017 | 40 | $63k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Star Collaborative Foundation | $85,900 | 3 | 14% |
| World Pulse Voices | $61,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Save Oswit Canyon Inc | $51,000 | 2 | 1% |
| One Arizona | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Palm Springs Center for Creativity | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mi Familia Vota | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Palm Springs Art Museum | $9,200 | 4 | 0% |
| Womens Foundation of Oregon | $7,820 | 3 | n/a |
| The Dinner Party Labs Co Npoc Services | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Kairospdx | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($54k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget North Star 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: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Ford Family Foundation · Ronald W Naito Md Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About North Star Foundation
- How much does North Star Foundation give?
- North Star Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $71,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 40 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does North Star Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (23%), Environment (16%), International (16%).
- Who are North Star Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: North Star Collaborative Foundation ($86k), World Pulse Voices ($61k), Save Oswit Canyon Inc ($51k).
- Does North Star Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does North Star 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 North Star Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, The Collins Foundation, Meyer Memorial Trust.
- Where is North Star Foundation based?
- North Star Foundation is based in OR.
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