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Northstar Family Foundation Inc

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.

$252k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,599
Largest grant, FY2024
$126,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 10
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Northstar Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving9$252k56%
FY20238$230k50%
FY20226$210k50%
FY20216$250k50%
FY202010$120k80%
FY20195$77kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$624kEducation$236kEnvironment$211kFood & Nutrition$20kSocial Science$15kRecreation & Sports$11kArts & Culture$5kYouth Development$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($34k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Northstar Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 14 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Netherland-America Foundation Inc: $624,235 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $210,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of Nyenrode University Inc: $176,000 over 4y, 67% of budgetUniversity of Colorado Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhillips Exeter Academy: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPelham Community Rowing Association Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFeeding America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlessings in a Backpack Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of America: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConcordia College Corporation: $2,115 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConcordia Conservatory Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBible Study Fellowship: $700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNarragansett Council Boy Scouts of America: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 14.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Northstar Family Foundation Inc

How much does Northstar Family Foundation Inc give?
Northstar Family Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $251,584 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Northstar Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (55%), Education (21%), Environment (19%).
Who are Northstar Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Netherland-America Foundation Inc ($624k), The Trustees of Reservations ($210k), American Friends of Nyenrode University Inc ($176k).
Does Northstar Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Northstar Family Foundation Inc 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 Northstar Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Northstar Family Foundation Inc based?
Northstar Family Foundation Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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