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Starhill Associates Inc

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$99,325
Largest grant, FY2024
$752,393
Organizations funded a year
2 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$185k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Starhill Associates Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalEducationPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther
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 arriving13$1.3M46%
FY20238$599k38%
FY20227$682k57%
FY20212$16k100%
FY202011$1.9M100%
FY20192$22k50%
FY20184$34k75%
FY20173$20kn/a
74% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$11MInternational$753kHealth$669kEducation$408kHuman Services$127kRecreation & Sports$100kYouth Development$99kEnvironment$32kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
NJ
CA
NC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American University of Armenia Corporation$403,32124%
Cancer Commons$288,37438%
Focus on Children Now Inc$250,000110%
Armenian Wounded Heroes Fund Inc$199,996167%
Tufenkian Foundation Inc$150,00027%
The Paros Foundation$100,09815%
Tumo Foundation$99,32511%
Knights of Vartan Inc$99,271149%
Fdny Foundation Inc$10,00010%
College Track$5,00010%
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Starhill Associates Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American University of Armenia Corporation$403,32124%
Cancer Commons$288,37438%
Focus on Children Now Inc$250,000110%
Armenian Wounded Heroes Fund Inc$199,996167%
Tufenkian Foundation Inc$150,00027%
The Paros Foundation$100,09815%
Tumo Foundation$99,32511%
Knights of Vartan Inc$99,271149%
Fdny Foundation Inc$10,00010%
College Track$5,00010%
Street Child US$5,00012%
Common Sense Media$1,00010%
San Francisco Art Institute$35010%

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Starhill Associates Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican University of Armenia Corporation: $403,321 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCancer Commons: $288,374 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetFocus on Children Now Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetArmenian Wounded Heroes Fund Inc: $199,996 over 1y, 67% of budgetTufenkian Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetThe Paros Foundation: $100,098 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTumo Foundation: $99,325 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKnights of Vartan Inc: $99,271 over 1y, 49% of budgetFdny Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCollege Track: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStreet Child US: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCommon Sense Media: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Art Institute: $350 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 13.

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.

The Parsekian Foundation IncMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Parsekian Foundation Inc · The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation · Jhm Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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Find your warmest path to Starhill Associates Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Starhill Associates Inc

How much does Starhill Associates Inc give?
Starhill Associates Inc reported 14 grants totaling $2,022,963 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Starhill Associates Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (72%), International (5%), Health (4%).
Who are Starhill Associates Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American University of Armenia Corporation ($403k), Cancer Commons ($288k), Focus on Children Now Inc ($250k).
Does Starhill Associates Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Starhill Associates Inc 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 Starhill Associates Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Parsekian Foundation Inc, The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation, Jhm Charitable Foundation.
Where is Starhill Associates Inc based?
Starhill Associates Inc 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 34 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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