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Starr Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$139k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Arts & Culture$370kEducation$175kHealth$86kRecreation & Sports$44kHuman Services$26kReligion$22kFood & Nutrition$14kPublic Benefit$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$35,000
SONA$25,000
GRAND MESA ARTS CENTER$20,000
WASHINGTON REGIONAL MED FOUNDATION$10,000
APPLE SEEDS TEACHING FARM$10,000
FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FND$6,000
ARKANSAS PBS FOUNDATION$5,000
ARKANSAS CHAMPIONS TRUST$5,000
20TH CENTURY CLUB$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
FRIENDS OF BLOOMSBURG LIBRARY$2,500
FAYETTEVILLE JR CIVIC LEAGUE$2,000
SALVATION ARMY$2,000
NC DISASTER RELIEF FUND$1,000
METHODIST FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GLADNEY CTR FOR ADOPTION: $1k → 11%GLADNEY CTR FOR ADOPTION: $1k → 11%GLADNEY CTR FOR ADOPTION: $250 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NY
PA
CO
VA
MD
AR
TN
NC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$644k · 27 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
22

Total granted

$644k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+23%

Still filing today

33%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesAnimalsHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

  • GM
    GRAND MESA ARTS & EVENTS CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $54k · revenue +64%
  • FP
    FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +0%
  • TC
    THE CALL
    3× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • HH
    HAAS HALL ACADEMY
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
United Methodist Children's Home

To provide quality compassionate behavioral healthcare services to children and families of arkansas through a comprehensive continuum of programs which include residential treatment center care, therapeutic group home care, emergency…

Human Services
2
Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient-and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
3
Arkansas Family Alliance F/K/a Whitsonlife Inc

Ministry for child welfare and families in crisis.

Religion
4
Arkansas Children's Foundation

We champion children by making them better today and healthier tomorrow.continued on schedule o.arkansas children's will fundamentally transform healthcare delivery for the children of arkansas and beyond. arkansas children's core values…

Health
5
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
6
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Inc

Methodist le bonheur healthcare, in partnership with its medical staffs, will collaborate with patients and their families to be the leader in providing high quality, cost-effective patient and family-centered care. services will be…

Health
7
Arkansas Children's Medical Group Pllc

We champion children by making them better today and healthier tomorrow.continued on schedule oarkansas children's will fundamentally transform healthcare delivery for the children of arkansas and beyond. arkansas children's core values…

Health
8
Arkansas Children's Northwest Inc

We champion children by making them better today and healthier tomorrow.continued on schedule o.arkansas children's will fundamentally transform healthcare delivery for the children of arkansas and beyond. arkansas children's core values…

Health
9
Arkansas Children's Inc

We champion children by making them better today and healthier tomorrow.arkansas children's will fundamentally transform healthcare delivery for the children of arkansas and beyond. arkansas children's core values are the organizational…

Health
10
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
11
Childrens Center

The mission of childrens center is to support and medically assess children who are suspected victims of abuse or neglect.

Crime & Legal
12
Mcleod Physician Associates Ii

Mcleod physician associates ii operates as a part of the mcleod health system. the mission of mcleod health is to improve the overall health and well being of people living within south carolina and eastern north carolina by providing…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Methodist Family Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Grand Mesa Arts & Events Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

21 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WALTON ARTS CENTER — $200,300 · OtherWALTON ARTS CENTERFAYETTEVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $80,000 · OtherFAYETTEVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATIONSONA — $67,595 · OtherSONAWASHINGTON REGIONAL MED FOUNDATION — $45,000 · OtherWASHINGTON REGIONAL MED FOUNDATIONARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $35,000 · OtherARKANSAS MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS20TH CENTURY CLUB — $34,300 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA — $25,000 · OtherHAAS HALL ACADEMY — $25,000 · Other+37 more — $132,908 · Other+37 moreGRAND MESA ARTS & EVENTS CENTER INC — $54,000 · Arts & CultureARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureFAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $48,700 · EducationMETHODIST FAMILY HEALTH INC — $5,528 · HealthMAYO CLINIC — $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 · HealthMETHODIST FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,000 · HealthARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $1,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $1,000 · Health+1 more — $30 · HealthTHE CALL — $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION — $2,450 · Human ServicesArkansas Champions Trust — $5,000 · PhilanthropyJUNIOR CIVIC LEAGUE OF FAYETTEVILLE — $3,000 · Community Improvement
Other$645,103Arts & Culture$61,000Education$48,700Health$15,558Human Services$8,450Philanthropy$5,000Community Improvement$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGRAND MESA ARTS & EVENTS CENTER INC — $54,000 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetFAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $48,700 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetTHE CALL — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR CIVIC LEAGUE OF FAYETTEVILLE — $3,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION — $2,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $2,091 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE SQUARED INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ANIMALS — $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMETHODIST FAMILY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SAFETY CENTER — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSURFACE CREEK ANIMAL SHELTER — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 GRAND MESA ARTS & EVENTS CENTER INC
  • Who funds FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE CALL
  • Who funds METHODIST FAMILY HEALTH INC
  • Who funds Arkansas Champions Trust
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC
  • Who funds ARKANSAS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK FOUNDATION
  • Who funds JUNIOR CIVIC LEAGUE OF FAYETTEVILLE
  • Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
  • Who funds THEATRE SQUARED INC
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ANIMALS
  • Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE

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.

Arkansas Community Foundation IncAR23.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Starr Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Starr Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Starr Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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