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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 FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$752k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0174% 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
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $752k
$99,325
Median grant
6
States reached
$185k
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 99% of reported assets are held in Salesforce Com Stock.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$752,393
Individual grant recipient$248,487
Individual grant recipient$215,881
Individual grant recipient$198,649
Individual grant recipient$100,000
TUMO FOUNDATION$99,325
Individual grant recipient$99,325
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA$99,325
Cancer Commons$99,325
TUFENKIAN FOUNDATION$50,000
BIG LIFE$25,181
GREEN FOOTHILLS LENNIE ROBERTS ENDO$15,000
KINGS MOUNTAIN FIRE BRIGADE$10,072
FDNY FOUNDATION$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 11% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AIWA: $199k → 8%WEBSTER HOUSE CARE CENTER: $100k → 8%DAWN REDWOODS: $2k → 8%American University of Armenia Corporation: $304k → 10%COMMON SENSE MEDIA: $1k → 10%TEACH FOR ARMENIA: $216k → 14%SUTTER LAKESIDE HOSPITAL: $10k → 17%KNIGHTS OF VARTAN: $99k → 19%CHILDREN OF ARMENIA: $203k → 17%FDNY FOUNDATION: $10k → 20%TUMO FOUNDATION: $99k → 5%STREET CHILD US: $5k → 14%RARE CANCER RESEARCH: $49k → 11%Kings Mountain: $15k → 17%BIG LIFE: $25k → 9%THE TUFENKIAN FOUNDATION: $100k → 7%Cancer Commons: $100k → 8%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA: $99k → 10%UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $10k → 10%TEACH FOR ARMENIA: $200k → 14%Children of Armenia: $100k → 17%KINGS MOUNTAIN FIRE BRIGADE: $10k → 17%TUFENKIAN FOUNDATION: $50k → 7%Cancer Commons: $99k → 8%COLLEGE TRACK: $5k → 10%UCSF PEDIATRIC: $99k → 10%AESA: $100k → 14%Children of Armenia: $100k → 17%ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND: $200k → 7%Cancer Commons: $89k → 8%PAROS FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%FOCUS ON CHILDREN NOW: $250k → 14%Children of Armenia: $94k → 17%GREEN FOOTHILLS LENNIE ROBERTS ENDO: $21k → 8%GREEN FOOTHILLS LENNIE ROBERTS ENDO: $15k → 8%GREEN FOOTHILLS LENNIE ROBERTS ENDO: $15k → 8%GREEN FOOTHILLS LENNIE ROBERTS ENDO: $15k → 8%GREEN FOOTHILLS: $12k → 8%GREEN FOOTHILLS: $10k → 8%GREEN FOOTHILLS: $10k → 8%AIWA SF: $17k → 8%SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2.5M → 8%SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2.2M → 8%SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.6M → 8%SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.3M → 8%SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.2M → 8%SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.1M → 8%SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $752k → 8%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

WA
NY
MA
NJ
CA
NC
DC
TX
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 10 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
17

Total granted

$2.9M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+18%

Still filing today

30%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $443k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalPhilanthropyEducationHealthPublic Safety & DisasterArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2022–2024 · $744k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    4× · 2020–2024 · $497k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2020–2024 · $416k

Funded once

  • FO
    FOCUS ON CHILDREN NOW INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -86%
  • AW
    ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue +278% · 67% of their budget
  • A
    AIWA
    one grant, 2020 · $199k
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
Tufenkian Family Foundation
—
2
The Khachaturian Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Us-Kosovo Foundation
International
4
Ari and Esther Munk Family Foundation
Philanthropy
5
Global Arm Foundation

Education about armenia & caucasu region

Philanthropy
6
Armanino Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Amin Arasteh Foundation
—
8
Armenian Educational Foundation

Providing grants that contribute to the goals of armenian education and heritage

Arts & Culture
9
Pano Koumantaros Cancer Research Fund Inc
Philanthropy
10
Mark Samuelian Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Hekemian Foundation
—
12
Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Inc

To promote armenian contemporary experimental art

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fdny Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Paros Foundation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 34 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Silicon Valley Community Foundation: $10,615,196 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community Foundation+3 more: $349,423 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient: $744,315 · OtherIndividual grant recip…Individual grant recipient: $496,657 · OtherIndividual grant recip…Individual grant recipient: $416,078 · OtherIndividual grant recip…UCSF Children's Hospital: $295,554 · OtherUCSF Children's Hospit…Individual grant recipient: $198,649 · OtherIndividual grant recip…AIWA: $198,541 · OtherAIWAWEBSTER HOUSE CARE CENTER: $100,098 · OtherAESA: $100,098 · Other+14 more: $436,619 · Other+14 moreFOCUS ON CHILDREN NOW INC: $250,000 · InternationalARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $199,996 · International+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalAMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION: $403,321 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationCANCER COMMONS: $288,374 · HealthFDNY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$10,964,619Other$2,986,609International$454,996Education$408,321Health$288,374Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Arts & Culture$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 budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $10,615,196 over 7y, 0.1% of 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
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.

  • Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CANCER COMMONS ↗
  • Who funds FOCUS ON CHILDREN NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds ARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds TUFENKIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PAROS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TUMO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Knights of Vartan Inc ↗
  • Who funds FDNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
  • Who funds STREET CHILD US ↗
  • Who funds COMMON SENSE MEDIA ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE ↗

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 Foundat…The Vahik & Alice Pet…Jhm Charitable Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Starhill Associates Inc?

    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.

    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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