· Private foundation
Starfish Fund
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $189k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $257k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY | $200,000 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY | $56,800 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS PA | $25,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF SUMMIT | $25,000 |
| KNOWING LOVE MINISTIES INC | $25,000 |
| PENN STATE WOMENS SOCCER BOOSTER CL | $22,000 |
| BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GRACE CHURCH OF CHAPEL HILL | $20,000 |
| ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS | $20,000 |
| THE DARREN DAULTON FDN | $11,564 |
| SUMMIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF RARITAN VALLEY | $10,000 |
| GRINDSTONE MINISTRIES | $5,000 |
| durham rescue mission | $5,000 |
| foundation for ind rights of expres | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
50 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 13 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TCTHE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY5× · 2021–2025 · $765k · revenue +80%
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $182k · revenue +10%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC7× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- MIMARINE IND ASSOC COLLIER CNTY FOUNDone grant, 2021 · $40k
- PAPARKINSONS ASSOC OF SW FLORIDAone grant, 2022 · $25k
- CACANCER ALLIANCE NETWORK INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Just capital's mission is to build a more just economy that works for all americans by helping companies improve how they serve all their stakeholders - workers, customers, communities, the environment, and shareholders - as defined by the…
The center for science in the public interest is america's food and health watchdog. cspi envisions a healthy population with reduced impact and burden of preventable diseases and an equitable food system that makes healthy, sustainable…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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;…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carolina Poodle Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
55 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 84 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN LIBERTY ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds OVERLOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUMINIS HEALTH ANNE ARUNDEL MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PIVOTAL MOMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRETT BOYER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REALITY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY SCHOOL OF DURHAM AND CHAPEL HILL INC ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds PATRIOTS' PATH COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FARM-TO-CONSUMER LEGAL DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE WESTON A PRICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANCER ALLIANCE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT PARK LINE FOUNDATION INC CO ROBERT J RUBINO MD ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES MOVING FORWARD ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Carroll Petrie Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Shared Visions Foundation Inc · Charleigh Charitable Trust · Duke University · Verizon Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · Investors Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Truist 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 organization Starfish Fund 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.
- Bridges Outreach Inc — 25% of income from government
- Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.