Arkansas · Private foundation
Starr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $139k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Starr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 21 | $139k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $137k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $89k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $147k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $91k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $179k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Mesa Arts & Events Center Inc | $54,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Fayetteville Public Education Foundation Inc | $48,700 | 6 | 3% |
| The Call | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Methodist Family Health Inc | $5,528 | 2 | n/a |
| Arkansas Champions Trust | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Arkansas Educational Telecommunications Network Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Junior Civic League of Fayetteville | $3,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Gladney Center for Adoption | $2,450 | 3 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $2,091 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Mesa Arts & Events Center Inc | $54,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Fayetteville Public Education Foundation Inc | $48,700 | 6 | 3% |
| The Call | $6,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Methodist Family Health Inc | $5,528 | 2 | n/a |
| Arkansas Champions Trust | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Arkansas Educational Telecommunications Network Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Junior Civic League of Fayetteville | $3,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Gladney Center for Adoption | $2,450 | 3 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $2,091 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Theatre Squared Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Washington County Animals | $1,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Arkansas Children's Hospital | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beloved Asheville | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Magdalene Serenity House Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Methodist Family Health Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Little Rock Compassion Center | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Children's Safety Center | $750 | 2 | 0% |
| Surface Creek Animal Shelter | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $30 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($637k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Starr Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Arkansas Community Foundation Inc · Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation Inc · Wal-Mart Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Windgate Charitable Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
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About Starr Foundation
- How much does Starr Foundation give?
- Starr Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $138,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Starr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Education (22%), Health (11%).
- Who are Starr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Grand Mesa Arts & Events Center Inc ($54k), Fayetteville Public Education Foundation Inc ($49k), The Call ($6k).
- Does Starr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Starr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Starr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arkansas Community Foundation Inc, Willard & Pat Walker Charitable Foundation Inc, Wal-Mart Foundation.
- Where is Starr Foundation based?
- Starr Foundation is based in AR.
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