· Public charity
Starlight Children's Foundation
Since 1983, starlight has been delivering happiness to seriously ill children and their families.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- $10k–50k6 grants · $161k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLOATING HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN AT TUFTS | $85,000 |
| ST JOSEPH'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| RILEY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UPSTATE GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $40,000 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY | $29,025 |
| BERNARD AND MILLIE DUKER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| DIAMOND CHILDREN'S | $22,000 |
| DELL CHILDREN'S MEDICAL | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
Like the Sisters of Mercy before us, we witness God's healing love for all people by providing excellent clinical services within a community of compassionate care. As an independent Catholic hospital, we pledge to enhance the health of…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
The organization is committed to providing the full spectrum of life-enhancing care and services to create and sustain healthy, vibrant communities. please refer to schedule h, part vi, question 5 for the organization's community benefit…
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles General Medical Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Jefferson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 20 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 La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION GROUP RETURN ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL OF TAMPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HSC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UPSTATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPERATING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Banner Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds DELL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds White Memorial Medical Center dba Adventist Health White Memorial ↗
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: Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Starlight Children's Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.