· Private foundation
Starr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 CHAMPIONS TRUST | $5,000 |
| 20TH CENTURY CLUB | $5,000 |
| ARKANSAS PBS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BLOOMSBURG LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| FAYETTEVILLE JR CIVIC LEAGUE | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| LITTLE ROCK COMPASSION CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GMGRAND MESA ARTS & EVENTS CENTER INC5× · 2020–2025 · $54k · revenue +63%
- FPFAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +0%
- TCTHE CALL3× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDAone grant, 2021 · $25k
- HHHAAS HALL ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
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 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…
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…
Ministry for child welfare and families in crisis.
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The mission of childrens center is to support and medically assess children who are suspected victims of abuse or neglect.
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…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 60 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 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 ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE SQUARED INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds MAGDALENE SERENITY HOUSE 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Starr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Starr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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