Indiana · 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.
- $287k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $152,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 48% of the organizations Starlight Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $287k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $105k | 48% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $91k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $123k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $65k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $21k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $146k | 57% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $82k | 43% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Borden Community Park | $110,250 | 3 | n/a |
| Montessori Field School | $95,000 | 4 | 7% |
| River Heritage Conservancy Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 1% |
| St John the Baptist Catholic Church | $54,642 | 6 | n/a |
| The Children's Hospital Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Omaha Children's Museum | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Elizabeth Catholic Charities Inc | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Starlight Visitors Association Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 32% |
| National Desert Storm War Memorial Association | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Youth Link Southern Indiana | $12,500 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($455k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Starlight Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Starlight Foundation Inc
- How much does Starlight Foundation Inc give?
- Starlight Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $287,280 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Starlight Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Religion (15%), Recreation & Sports (11%).
- Who are Starlight Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of Borden Community Park ($110k), Montessori Field School ($95k), River Heritage Conservancy Inc ($80k).
- Does Starlight Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Starlight Foundation 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 Starlight Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Southern Indiana Inc, Horseshoe Foundation of Floyd County Inc, Republic Bank Foundation Inc.
- Where is Starlight Foundation Inc based?
- Starlight Foundation Inc is based in IN.
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