Florida · 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.
- $548k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Starfish Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 40 | $548k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $436k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $455k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $336k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $252k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $246k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $264k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $237k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Center for American Liberty | $765,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Drexel University | $181,800 | 6 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Pennsylvania Inc | $165,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Overlook Foundation | $126,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pivotal Moments Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 16% |
| The Brett Boyer Foundation Inc | $60,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Chapel Hill Bible Church of Chapel Hill North Carolina Inc | $60,000 | 3 | n/a |
| North Naples United Methodist Church | $60,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Reality Ministries Inc | $59,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($551k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Starfish Fund supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Starfish Fund
- How much does Starfish Fund give?
- Starfish Fund reported 40 grants totaling $548,364 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Starfish Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (29%), Health (20%), Education (14%).
- Who are Starfish Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Center for American Liberty ($765k), Drexel University ($182k), Special Olympics Pennsylvania Inc ($165k).
- Does Starfish Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Starfish Fund 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 Starfish Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Carroll Petrie Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is Starfish Fund based?
- Starfish Fund is based in FL.
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