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Stardog Foundation

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.

$54k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
42%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,573
Largest grant, FY2024
$31,164
Organizations funded a year
18 to 19
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$642k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Stardog Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
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 arriving7$54k29%
FY202319$51k42%
FY202218$79k33%
FY202118$84k72%
FY202019$82kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Youth Development$191kFood & Nutrition$52kHuman Services$42kPhilanthropy$11kHousing & Shelter$11kEducation$8kHealth$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($242k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Stardog Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInterfaith Food Ministry Nevada County: $22,025 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSacramento Food Bank & Family Services: $21,014 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGold Country Community Services: $11,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSacramento LGBT Community Center: $8,747 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWeave Inc: $5,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTlcs Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElk Grove Community Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMutual Housing Corporation: $4,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetNevada Area Council Boy Scouts of America 329: $3,708 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSacramento Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $3,594 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDonorschooseorg: $2,687 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRiver City Food Bank: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSacramento Children's Home: $1,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlchemist CDC: $1,543 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSacramento Self-Help Housing Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpening Doors Inc: $1,058 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHappy Tails Pet Sanctuary: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMy Sisters House: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding the Foothills: $831 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClinic Access Support Network: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Fund: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJane's Due Process Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Network of Abortion Funds: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFund Texas Choice: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhole Woman's Health Alliance: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Network of Abortion Funds Lilith Fund: $100 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 28.

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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.

Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA27.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · United Way California Capital Region · Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services · Sierra Health Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Dignity Health · Pfund Family Foundation · Kelly Foundation · Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation Inc · Sutter Valley Hospitals · California Foundation for Stronger Communities

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 Stardog Foundation

How much does Stardog Foundation give?
Stardog Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $53,593 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Stardog Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (55%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Stardog Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Interfaith Food Ministry Nevada County ($22k), Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services ($21k), Gold Country Community Services ($11k).
Does Stardog Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Stardog Foundation 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 Stardog Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Teichert Foundation, United Way California Capital Region.
Where is Stardog Foundation based?
Stardog Foundation is based in CA.

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 49 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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