Skip to content
Starfish tlc Fund at a glance

· Private foundation

Starfish tlc 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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.3MYouth Development$34kInternational$29kCommunity Improvement$25kHealth$13kArts & Culture$13kHuman Services$12kCrime & Legal$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
$12,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DEFY VENTURES INC$25,000
E TOWN$12,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%HOUR CHILDREN INC: $1k → 13%NEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MI
NY
MA
CT
CA
UT
CO
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 7 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

$1.4M
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+84%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • The President and Trustees of Colby College
    5× · 2019–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +24%
  • TO
    THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +70%
  • ET
    ENDEAVOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $8k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • CC
    CONSCIOUS CAPITALISM INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -31%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FUND FOR LSEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $14k · revenue +84%
  • JF
    Jewish Family Servicegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +219%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
7
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
9
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

—
10
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is IMPACT100 Westchester Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Osborne Association Inc. 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

19 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. 19 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The President and Trustees of Colby College: $1,024,000 · EducationThe President and Trustees of Colby CollegeDEFY VENTURES INC: $320,000 · EducationDEFY VENTURES INC+2 more: $2,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC - NEW YORK: $33,500 · OtherTHE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · OtherE TOWN: $12,500 · OtherJewish Family Service: $10,000 · OtherTHE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC: $9,500 · OtherCONSCIOUS CAPITALISM INC: $25,000 · InternationalTHE AMERICAN FUND FOR LSE: $13,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 · InternationalENDEAVOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC: $8,000 · HealthLAWRENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $2,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $1,500 · HealthIMPACT100 WESTCHESTER INC: $4,450 · PhilanthropyPINK AID INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyNEIGHBORS LINK CORP: $1,000 · Human ServicesHOUR CHILDREN INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$1,346,000Other$80,500International$41,000Health$11,500Philanthropy$5,450Human Services$2,000Crime & Legal$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $1,024,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC: $320,000 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetCONSCIOUS CAPITALISM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Family Service: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC: $9,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENDEAVOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetIMPACT100 WESTCHESTER INC: $4,450 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINK AID INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BARUCH COLLEGE FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUR CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropi…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundVanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA14.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Starfish tlc Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Starfish tlc Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Starfish tlc’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home