How much did ROBERT S STARR FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of ROBERT S STARR FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

TRINITY FIRST LUTHERAN SCHOOL$3,000
MINNESOTA TEEN CHALLENGE$3,000
KINDERING - SIBLING SUPPORT PROJECT$3,000
CAMP ODAYIN$3,000
BOOKS FOR AFRICA$3,000
FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN$3,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSION$3,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$3,000
GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES$2,000
START SENIOR SOLUTIONS$2,000
CHAIR-ITY INC$2,000
NANZE CHILDRENS SERVICES$2,000
SALVATION ARMY$2,000
CAN DO CANINES$2,000
ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY$1,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$248k · 21 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$248k

$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%

+43%

Still filing today

48%

57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

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

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MINNESOTA TEEN CHALLENGE
7× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +88%
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UNION GOSPEL MISSION
7× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +74%
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FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN
7× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +68%

Funded once

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THRESHOLD TO NEW LIFE
one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +14%
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GIRLS ON THE RUN MINNESOTAgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +62%
CV
CROSS VIEW LUTHERAN CHURCH - GUATEMALA WATER PROJECT
one grant, 2021 · $1k

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

04Your field

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.

Christian Aid Ministries

CAMs primary purpose is to provide a trustworthy and efficient channel for Amish, Mennonite, and other conservative Anabaptist groups and individuals to minister to physical and spiritual needs around the world. Annually, CAM distributes…

Religion

Living Water International

Living Water International (Living Water) exists to demonstrate the love of God by helping communities in 17 developing countries acquire desperately needed clean water and to experience "living water" - the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Human Services

Goodwill Industries Inc

To eliminate barriers to work and independence.

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Mercy Ships International

Operates hospital ships staffed by volunteer medical and non-medical crew to bring free surgeries and medical training to developing countries.

International

Missions Development International

Mdi mentors, consults and equips christian ministry leaders through leadership development, strategic planning, human resource management, family counseling and much more.

International

Global Gospel Initiative Inc

Religion

Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evangelism, disciple-making, and church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities around the world, starting in North America.

Religion

Life Resources International Inc

Human Services

Lifewater Inc

Lifewater International is a non-profit Christian water development organization.

Environment

Mercy in Action International

Human Services

Heartbeat International Ministries

A 501(c)(3) organization incorporated and headquartered in connecticut (usa). with extensive experience in coordinating relief and charitable efforts in disparate locations domestic and worldwide; heartbeat works tirelessly around the…

Human Services

World Renew

World Renew's mission is to engage God's people in redeeming resources and developing gifts in collaborative acts of mercy, justice, and compassion. This work, which is focused on relief and community development.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Threshold to New Life. 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

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

15/17

Grantees still filing

15/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$160,000International$46,500Health$28,000Recreation & Sports$14,000Education$4,000Human Services$4,000Youth Development$1,000

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.

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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 organisation ROBERT S STARR 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.

2024

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: START SENIOR SOLUTIONS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 453336387 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on START SENIOR SOLUTIONS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Robert S Starr Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ROBERT S STARR FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Robert S Starr Foundation?

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ROBERT S STARR FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Robert S Starr Foundation?

More from the funding graph