· Private foundation
Starfish Charitable Foundation Trust
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PLAINS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $1,000 |
| SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FAUQUIER SPCA | $1,000 |
| THE GREEN VALE SCHOOL | $334 |
| GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $14 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of its 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
3 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. 3 of the 6 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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Starfish Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Starfish Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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