· Private foundation
Robert S Starr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KINDERING - SIBLING SUPPORT PROJECT | $4,000 |
| TRINITY FIRST LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| BOOKS FOR AFRICA | $3,000 |
| CAMP ODAYIN | $3,000 |
| CHAIR-ITY INC | $3,000 |
| START SENIOR SOLUTIONS | $3,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $3,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $3,000 |
| FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| CAN DO CANINES | $2,500 |
| MINNESOTA TEEN CHALLENGE | $2,000 |
| CROSS VIEW LUTHERAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES | $2,000 |
| CARINGBRIDGE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MTMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +94%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +98%- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +246%
Funded once
- TTTHRESHOLD TO NEW LIFEone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +5%
- LMLITERACY MATTERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -28%
- GOGIRLS ON THE RUN MINNESOTA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +34%
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.
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.
End hunger together.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Since 1986, open your heart to the hungry and homeless has worked to ensureevery minnesotan is free from hunger and homelessness. by partnering with organizations serving those in need, we grow donor engagement and raise awareness to…
Avivo increases well-being through recovery and career advancement while working to end homelessness.
The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Empowering people of all abilities to reach their full potential. we provide individualized services that maximize independence, boosts community engagement and improves physical and emotional well-being.
Sharing the gospel while providing hope and transformation.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 29 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKS FOR AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP ODAYIN ↗
- Who funds START SENIOR SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL HEALTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds VEAP Inc ↗
- Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
- Who funds CHAIR-ITY ↗
- Who funds Nanze Childrens Services Inc ↗
- Who funds METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLD TO NEW LIFE ↗
- Who funds CaringBridge ↗
- Who funds LITERACY MATTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CHOICES LIFECARE CENTER I ↗
- Who funds CROSSWAYS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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 Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert S Starr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert S Starr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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