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Northstar Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$126k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% 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
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $201k
$2,599
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION$126,000
TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS$75,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NYENRODE UNIVERSITY$28,000
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY$15,000
GIVERGY CHARITY EVENT NEW YORK CITY$2,599
DOCOMOMO$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,033
NATIVE PLANT TRUST WAYLAND$1,000
GIVERGY CHARITY EVENT NEW YORK CITY$312
ENTHUSECOM$140
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIVE PLANT TRUST WAYLAND: $1k → 14%HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $15k → 16%CONCORDIA COLLEGE: $2k → 11%WIKIMEDIA: $104 → 10%COMMUNITY SERV ASSN: $3k → 9%NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION: $204k → 17%BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP: $700 → 16%TAMAAS: $2k → 16%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA NARRAGANSETT COUNCIL: $200 → 14%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $3k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%ARCHAEOLOGICAL IN INDIANAPOLIS: $1k → 16%DOCOMOMO: $3k → 14%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS (NAMI): $259 → 7%PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $15k → 5%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $75k → 16%PELHAM COMMUNITY ROWING ASSOCIATION: $6k → 9%NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION: $126k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $10k → 5%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $50k → 16%PELHAM COMMUNITY ROWING ASSOCIATION: $5k → 9%NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION: $106k → 17%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $30k → 16%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NYENRODE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 9%NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION: $75k → 17%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $30k → 16%BRONXVILLE HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 9%NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION: $63k → 17%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $15k → 16%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NYENRODE UNIVERSITY: $38k → 9%NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION: $52k → 17%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $10k → 16%CONCORDIA CONSERVATORY: $2k → 9%GIVERGY CHARITY EVENT NEW YORK CITY: $3k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NYENRODE UNIVERSITY: $28k → 9%GIVERGY CHARITY EVENT NEW YORK CITY: $312 → 17%NEWYORK - PRESBYTERIAN LAWRENCE HOSPITAL: $1k → 9%ENTHUSECOM: $140 → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NYENRODE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 9%THE FRICK COLLECTION: $600 → 17%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA WESTCHESTER-PUTNAM COUNCIL: $500 → 9%EMS EASTCHESTER: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 6 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$1.1M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
0%

Still filing today

100%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalEnvironmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TN
    THE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $624k · revenue +157%
  • THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $210k · revenue +36%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • HB
    HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • Feeding Americagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +40%
  • BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -19%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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8
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
9
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

—
10
The York School

York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…

Education
11
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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12
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Concordia Conservatory Inc; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $624,235 · InternationalTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INCTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $210,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESE…American Friends of Nyenrode University Inc: $176,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Friends …UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherGIVERGY CHARITY EVENT NEW YORK CITY: $2,911 · OtherBRONXVILLE HIGH SCHOOL: $2,572 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · OtherDOCOMOMO: $2,500 · OtherCONCORDIA COLLEGE CORPORATION: $2,115 · OtherTAMAAS: $2,000 · OtherBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $10,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $2,500 · OtherCONCORDIA CONSERVATORY INC: $2,000 · Other+10 more: $5,551 · OtherPELHAM COMMUNITY ROWING ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 · Recreation & SportsFeeding America: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
International$624,235Environment$210,000Philanthropy$176,000Education$55,000Other$52,649Recreation & Sports$11,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Northstar Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northstar Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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