How much did Start It Foundation grant in FY2024?

Start It Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $20,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is Start It Foundation based?

Start It Foundation is based in DE.

Start It Foundation

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

Start It Foundation

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$21k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$4k

Largest

01What you fund

0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$169kCommunity Improvement$9kMembership Benefit$7kEnvironment$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kRecreation & Sports$3kEducation$500Other$19k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

autism friendlyfriendly performances

2019

broadwaytheatre

2020

needed pandemicbroadway

2021

broadwaytheatre

2022

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2023

theater

2024

seattlebroadway

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$673k

Total assets

Largest grants

5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION$4,000
SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP$4,000
VILLAGE THEATRE$4,000
EXPERIENCE LEARNING COMMUNITY$2,000
PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION$1,500
THE ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA$1,000
THE SAFINA CENTER$1,000
THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC$1,000
SOUTH SEATTLE EMERALD$750
BROADWAY CARES-EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC$500
A BROADER WAY FOUNDATION$500
MUSEUM OF FLIGHT FOUNDATION$500

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 7%. 97% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$198k · 15 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$198k

$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+183%

Still filing today

87%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterMembership BenefitEducationEnvironmentOther

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

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EXPERIENCE LEARNING COMMUNITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +20%
VT
VILLAGE THEATRE
8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +13%
TD
THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $14k · revenue +15%

Funded once

TC
THE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC
one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +12%
MS
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT
one grant, 2019 · $3k
CF
CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +455%

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.

Theatre Bay Area

Theatre Bay Areas mission is to unite, strengthen, promote and advance the theatre community in the San Francisco Bay Area, working on behalf of the conviction that the performing arts are an essential public good, critical to a healthy…

Arts & Culture

Seattle Opera

To thrill, inspire and educate through the shared experience of opera

Arts & Culture

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Developing and operating a major performing arts center presenting the finest in performing arts.

Arts & Culture

Portland Center Stage

To create transcendent theatrical experiences and community programs that break down the barriers separating people.

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Opera Association

The world-renowned san francisco opera is considered one of the most important operatic organizations in the united states. great singing, outstanding conducting and productions sensitive to the music are core values of the opera. the…

Arts & Culture

Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture

Marin Theatre Company

Marin theatre company produces world-class theatre for the county of marin and bay area communities. mtc strives to set a national standard for intimate theatre experiences of the highest quality, featuring provocative plays by passionate…

Arts & Culture

Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles

As one of the nation's most influential nonprofit theatre companies, los angeles' center theatre group continues its 56-year tradition of using the art of theatre to broaden horizons and illuminate new perspectives at its 3 theatres: the…

Arts & Culture

The Stanford Theatre Foundation

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5TH Avenue Theatre Foundation

Arts & Culture

Chicago Shakespeare Theater

To create vivid, entertaining theatrical experiences that invigorate and engage people of all ages and identities by illuminating the complexity, ambiguity, and wonder of our world.

Arts & Culture

Broadway Sacramento

Broadway sacramento annually presents two seasons of theatrical productions under the names "broadway at music circus and "broadway on tour". additionally, the company provides educational programming for all ages.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is Broadway Bound Childrens Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

19/20

Grantees still filing

15/20

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$168,937Other$19,020Community Improvement$9,000Membership Benefit$7,000Environment$4,000Public Safety & Disaster$3,000Recreation & Sports$3,000Education$500

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

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.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA22× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Artsfund · United Way of King County · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Raikes Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund · Tides Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 organisation Start It 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LIVING COMPUTER MUSEUM & LABS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 822852303 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LIVING COMPUTER MUSEUM & LABS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Start It Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Start It Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Start It Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Start It Foundation?

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Start It Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

20 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Start It Foundation?

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