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Starlight Children's Foundation

Since 1983, starlight has been delivering happiness to seriously ill children and their families.

$351k
Granted FY2019
9
Grants FY2019
8
Organizations funded FY2019
100%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$29,025
Largest grant, FY2019
$85,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
8
Total assets, FY2019
$22M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 100% of the organizations Starlight Children's Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $311k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

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HealthEducationOther
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
FY20198$311k100%
FY201810$642k100%
FY20171$200kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Health$1.1MHuman Services$70kEducation$29k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
La Rabida Children's Hospital$200,00010%
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return$166,19410%
Los Angeles General Medical Center Foundation Inc$145,000112%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$94,8001n/a
Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc$85,0001n/a
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$55,10010%
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc$55,00011%
Riley Children's Foundation$50,0001n/a
Connecticut Children's Foundation Inc$49,60010%
The Hsc Foundation$48,00010%
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All grantees of Starlight Children's Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
La Rabida Children's Hospital$200,00010%
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return$166,19410%
Los Angeles General Medical Center Foundation Inc$145,000112%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$94,8001n/a
Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc$85,0001n/a
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$55,10010%
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc$55,00011%
Riley Children's Foundation$50,0001n/a
Connecticut Children's Foundation Inc$49,60010%
The Hsc Foundation$48,00010%
Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation$30,20010%
Thomas Jefferson University$29,02510%
Children's Medical Center$25,0001n/a
Albany Med Health System$25,0001n/a
Banner Health Foundation$22,00010%
Childrens Healthcare of Atlanta Inc$20,3051n/a
Dell Children's Foundation$20,00010%
White Memorial Medical Center dba Adventist Health White Memorial$20,00010%
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation$13,1101n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Starlight Children's Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLa Rabida Children's Hospital: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return: $166,194 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles General Medical Center Foundation Inc: $145,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $55,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc: $55,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetConnecticut Children's Foundation Inc: $49,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Hsc Foundation: $48,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMoses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation: $30,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Jefferson University: $29,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBanner Health Foundation: $22,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDell Children's Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWhite Memorial Medical Center dba Adventist Health White Memorial: $20,000 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 12.

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.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA9.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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About Starlight Children's Foundation

How much does Starlight Children's Foundation give?
Starlight Children's Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $351,025 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Starlight Children's Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Health (92%), Human Services (6%), Education (2%).
Who are Starlight Children's Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: La Rabida Children's Hospital ($200k), The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Group Return ($166k), Los Angeles General Medical Center Foundation Inc ($145k).
Does Starlight Children's Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Starlight Children's Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charities Aid Foundation America, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
Where is Starlight Children's Foundation based?
Starlight Children's Foundation 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 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $12M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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