· Private foundation
Starlight Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROVIDENCE HIGH SCHOOL | $152,500 |
| ST MARY'S OF THE KNOBS | $25,000 |
| RIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY | $20,000 |
| PIERCEPOLK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $15,000 |
| THE MONTESSORI FIELD SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BORDEN COMMUNITY PARK | $10,000 |
| HOSPARUS | $8,800 |
| ST JOHN THE BAPTIST CATHOLIC CHURCH | $8,500 |
| BEAUTIFUL AS YOU ARE (BAYA) | $7,500 |
| LIFEWISE ACADEMY (IN-BORDEN) | $5,000 |
| SISTERS OF ST BENEDICT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ST ELIZABETH CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $3,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $2,500 |
| BORDEN BRAVES FOUNDATION LTD | $1,680 |
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 (FY17–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
37 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MFMONTESSORI FIELD SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $95k · revenue +153%
- RHRIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +164%
- OCOmaha Children's Museum2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $20k
- NDNATIONAL DESERT STORM WAR MEMORIAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -72%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $11k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.
Indiana university health foundation leverages the power of philanthropy to support the iu health goal of making indiana one of the healthiest states in the nation.
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
The mission of ckf-in: facilitates and advocates accessible health for all hoosiers with a primary focus on healthcare coverage and children's development.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…
Promote and educate indiana residents on the state's economic success and positive gains.
Our mission is to help children and adults with enduring intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities live as independently as possible, be included in the community and function at their highest potential. we envision a…
By drawing on varied resources within public agencies and the private sector, we hope to provide hunger relief for those in need throughout Indiana.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Southern Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Borden Braves Foundation Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 22% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 100 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 MONTESSORI FIELD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Omaha Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds St Elizabeth Catholic Charities Inc ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT VISITORS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DESERT STORM WAR MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH LINK SOUTHERN INDIANA ↗
- Who funds PROSSER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA LIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSONVILLE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBR ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Borden Braves Foundation Ltd ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ALIGN SOUTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Southern Indiana Inc · Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Gardner Foundation Incorporated · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Scott County Community Foundation Inc · Sam Shine Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Metro United Way Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc
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 Foundation Inc 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.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
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.
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