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Start Something That Matters Foundation at a glance

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Start Something That Matters Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$745k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$6.3MEducation$4.2MArts & Culture$2.8MHuman Services$2.6MPhilanthropy$701kCivil Rights$655kReligion$593kEmployment$280kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $168k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
$45,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION - PSYCHEDELI$745,263
INDIGENOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATIVE FU$500,000
PSFC$500,000
UC BERKELEY - MYCOSKIE FELLOWSHIPS$250,000
CHARITY WATER - THE WELL CAMPAIGN$100,000
LEGACY OF LIGHT$50,000
HOGAR DE NINOS CHILDREN'S HOME IN H$45,000
AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA$40,000
PSFC FARM LEAGUE INVOICES$28,000
BUSINESS FOR SOCIAL GOOD$20,000
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FU$13,000
CHARITY WATER - THE SPRING CAMPAIGN$12,000
THANK YOU LIFE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RIP MEDICAL DEBT: $10k → 9%JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $10k → 5%FRIENDS OF CASA HOGAR: $5k → 13%CHARITY GLOBAL: $511k → 17%JACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $10k → 5%CHARITY GLOBAL: $112k → 17%ONE22: $200k → 5%CHARITY GLOBAL: $112k → 17%CHARITY GLOBAL: $112k → 17%ONE22: $100k → 5%CHARITY GLOBAL: $112k → 17%CHARITY GLOBAL: $12k → 17%CHARITY GLOBAL: $11k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
OR
NV
WY
SD
PA
CT
CA
UT
MD
AR
TN
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 20 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
37

Total granted

$14M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+44%

Still filing today

60%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HA
    Healing Advocacy Fund
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +7% · 56% of their budget
  • CHARITY GLOBAL INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $982k · revenue +17%
  • HI
    HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2022 · $975k · revenue +291%

Funded once

  • EF
    EVOLVE FOUNDATIONS DAF-VETERANS ACCELERATION PROGRAM
    one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
  • VE
    VETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -24%
  • JL
    JOYN LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $280k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
2
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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3
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
4
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
5
Jackson Hole International Film Festival

The jackson hole international film festival (jhiff) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and celebrating the art of filmmaking. jhiff exists to present the work of international creatives in an environment that inspires and…

Human Services
6
Santa Fe Community Foundation

The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…

Philanthropy
7
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
Good Samaritan Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

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10
Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

Our vision is to reimagine everyday giving to help charities. our mission is to enable the world's leading online platforms to create opportunities for everyday charitable giving. in doing so, we ensure our programs are trustworthy,…

Philanthropy
11
Foundation for Financial Planning Inc

Our mission is to help people in need improve their financial lives by expanding access to pro bono financial planning.

Human Services
12
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Jackson Hole; the most unlike its peers is Legacy of Light. 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

43 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. 43 of the 70 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/43
Grantees still filing
26/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $3,000,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $1,953,947 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONINDIGNEOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATIVE FUND: $1,000,000 · OtherINDIGNEOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATIVE FUNDEVOLVE FOUNDATIONS DAF-VETERANS ACCELERATION PROGRAM: $1,000,000 · OtherEVOLVE FOUNDATIONS DAF-VETERANS ACCELERATION PROGRAMUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION - PSYCHEDELI: $745,263 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION - PSYCHEDELIINDIGENOUS MEDICINE CONSERVATIVE FU: $500,000 · Other+39 more: $2,809,000 · Other+39 morePSFC: $1,678,000 · HealthPSFCMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $1,015,000 · HealthMULTIDISCIPLINARY A…VETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS: $500,000 · HealthVETSVETERANS EXPLOR…+3 more: $110,000 · HealthHealing Advocacy Fund: $1,500,000 · Crime & LegalHealing A…+2 more: $85,000 · Crime & Legal+2 moreCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $982,080 · Human ServicesOne22 Inc: $300,000 · Human Services+3 more: $34,790 · Human ServicesHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $975,000 · Education+2 more: $20,000 · EducationTIDES FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $144,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $102,500 · PhilanthropyENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $85,000 · PhilanthropyEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $200,000 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $150,000 · Civil Rights
Other$11,008,210Health$3,303,000Crime & Legal$1,585,000Human Services$1,316,870Education$995,000Philanthropy$534,000Civil Rights$350,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPSFC: $1,678,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetHealing Advocacy Fund: $1,500,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC: $1,015,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $982,080 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $975,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetVETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS: $500,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetOne22 Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $150,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $144,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $102,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJACKSON CUPBOARD: $100,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHANDS OFFERING HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetTETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUTAH FILM CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHole Food Rescue: $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBABY2BABY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTETON VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE: $50,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN MISSION: $50,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetSENIOR CENTER OF JACKSON HOLE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVENTIST DEVELOPMENT & RELIEF AGENCY INTERNATIONAL: $23,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE THERAPEUTIC RIDING: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUSINESS FOR SOCIAL GOOD: $20,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThank You Life: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF CASA HOGAR: $4,790 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 PSFC ↗
  • Who funds Healing Advocacy Fund ↗
  • Who funds MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS ↗
  • Who funds One22 Inc ↗
  • Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON CUPBOARD ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY OF LIGHT ↗
  • Who funds PHILANTHROPIC IMPACT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
  • Who funds TETON SCIENCE SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds HANDS OFFERING HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds St John's Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds UTAH FILM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Hole Food Rescue ↗
  • Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT 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.

Community Foundation …Karl M Johnson Founda…The Brooks FoundationGiving BrandsThe Andrew Allen Char…First Interstate Banc…Robert & Deborah Kopp…The O'Neil FoundationThe Jwj Family Founda…Hughes Charitable Fou…Wyss FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…
Community Foundation of Jackson HoleWY23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Jackson Hole · Karl M Johnson Foundation · The Brooks Foundation · Giving Brands · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Robert & Deborah Kopp Family Foundation Inc · The O'Neil Foundation · The Jwj Family Foundation Inc · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Wyss Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Start Something That Matters Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Start Something That Matters Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Adventist Development & Relief Agency International: 35% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home