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Star Mooring Foundation Inc

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.

$195k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20242025.

Housing & Shelter$212kHuman Services$65kCommunity Improvement$38kArts & Culture$35kPhilanthropy$22kEducation$15kHealth$10kInternational$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $177k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$200k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC$35,000
PROJECT DANDELION$35,000
BRADLEY ANGLE$25,000
THE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC$12,000
FIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION$10,000
THE ANTI NIHILIST FOUNDATION$10,000
LITTLE ESSENTIALS$10,000
TIDES CENTER$10,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$10,000
IMMIGRANT COUNSELING SERVICE$10,000
WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$5,000
EQUALITY NOW$5,000
ROOTS AND DREAMS AND MUSTARD SEEDS INC$3,000
GREENAGERS INC$3,000
02The need
03

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 (FY24–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LITTLE ESSENTIALS: $10k → 20%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $10k → 17%WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS: $10k → 17%BRADLEY ANGLE: $25k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

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The Conversationalist
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Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
3
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
4
We Are Family Foundation

The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Civil Rights
5
Womens Way

Formed in the late-70's, WOMEN'S WAY achieves gender equity by building collective power to disrupt oppressive systems and strengthen alternative models centered in love, dignity, and liberation.

Human Services
6
Women in Global Health Inc

Women in global health (wgh) is a global movement and organization that brings together all genders and backgrounds to achieve gender equality in global health leadership.

Public Benefit
7
Women for Women International

In countries affected by conflict and war, women for women international (women for women) supports the most marginalized women to earn and save money, improve health and well-being, influence decisions in their home and community, and…

International
8
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
9
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
10
New Media Ventures

We believe that by changing where capital is invested, we can shift the structures of power to benefit more people.

Public Benefit
11
Atd Fourth World Movement Inc

Atd fourth world movement is the united states branch of the international movement atd (all together in dignity) fourth world, an international non-governmental organization which aims to eradicate persistent poverty and exclusion through…

Human Services
12
Climateworks Foundation

Climateworks foundation's mission is to connect philanthropy, grantees, and strategic partners to build and deliver high-impact climate solutions that benefit all people.

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women Moving Millions Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anti-Nihilist Foundation. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PATH HOME — $160,000 · Housing & ShelterPATH HOMECOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $52,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR THE H…IMMIGRANT COUNSELING SERVICE — $10,000 · OtherIMMIGRANT COUNSELIN…PEOPLES PANTRY — $3,500 · OtherEquality Now Inc — $5,000 · OtherEquality Now IncGREENAGERS INC — $3,000 · OtherBradley Angle — $25,000 · Human ServicesBradley AngleWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN MOVING MILL…TIDES CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERLITTLE ESSENTIALS — $10,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE ESSENTIALSProject Dandelion Inc — $35,000 · Community ImprovementProject Da…ROOTS & DREAMS AND MUSTARD SEEDS INC — $3,000 · Community ImprovementROOTS & DR…THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM …ANTI-NIHILIST FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $5,000 · EducationTHE PHILANTHROPY WORKSHOP INC DBA FORWARD GLOBAL — $12,000 · PhilanthropyFIND YOUR LIGHT FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Housing & Shelter$160,000Other$73,500Human Services$65,000Community Improvement$38,000Arts & Culture$35,000Education$25,000Philanthropy$22,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPATH HOME — $160,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $52,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBradley Angle — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN MOVING MILLIONS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetANTI-NIHILIST FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENAGERS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Mustang Foundation IncNJ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mustang Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organization Star Mooring Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Roots & Dreams and Mustard Seeds Inc32% of income from government
  • Bradley Angle10% of income from government
  • Greenagers Inc7% 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 · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Star Mooring Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Star Mooring Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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