· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE MONTESSORI FIELD SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| PIERCEPOLK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $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 |
| SISTERS OF ST BENEDICT | $5,000 |
| LIFEWISE ACADEMY (IN-BORDEN) | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMONTESSORI FIELD SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $95k · revenue +153%
- RHRIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +164%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +109%
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
31 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. 31 of the 100 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MONTESSORI FIELD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RIVER HERITAGE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Omaha Children's Museum ↗
- 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 INDIANA LIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROSSER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSONVILLE TOWNSHIP PUBLIC LIBR ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Borden Braves Foundation Ltd ↗
- Who funds ALIGN SOUTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Starlight Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Starlight Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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