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Starting Block Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Starting Block Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$240k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Youth Development$222kHuman Services$221kEnvironment$200kEducation$105kCrime & Legal$50kRecreation & Sports$40kHealth$10kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NW COLORADO$75,100
K'IIN BEH EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION$50,000
STEAMBOAT ADAPTIVE RECREATIONAL SPORTS$10,000
LAKE HIGHLANDS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORP$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%K'IIN BEH EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%DIGDEEP: $100k → 14%LAKE HIGHLANDS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORP: $5k → 14%YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3k → 6%BUDDY PROGRAM: $20k → 6%DIGDEEP: $100k → 14%WOMEN CALLED MOSES COALITION AND OUTREACH: $50k → 14%LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $55k → 14%LIGHTUP TO LIVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%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.
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$642k · 4 repeat orgs$212k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$642k
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+5%

Still filing today

50%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NW COLORADO
    3× · 2023–2025 · $202k
  • DD
    DIG DEEP
    2× · 2022–2023 · $200k · revenue -54%
  • TD
    THE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT
    2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • LP
    LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +6%
  • WC
    WOMEN CALLED MOSES COALITION AND OUTREACH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +5% · 47% of their budget
  • DR
    DENVER RESCUE MISSION
    one grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue -2%
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
Waterstep Inc

Waterstep focuses on providing safe water, sanitation, and hygiene solutions to communities in need around the world. its mission is rooted in the belief that safe water is a basic human right and a critical foundation for health,…

Youth Development
2
Denver Basic Income Project
Human Services
3
Partnership for Resource Development Inc

Serving the displaced in the middle east.

Religion
4
Dolores River Boating Advocates

Dolores River Boating Advocates protects and enriches the recreational and ecological values of the Dolores River through advocacy, stewardship and education.

Environment
5
Diversity in Aquatics

The mission of diversity in aquatics is to educate promote and support swimming water safety and healthy aquatics activities for underserved marginalized and vulnerable populations.

Recreation & Sports
6
Hawaii Disability Rights Center

Protection and advocacy for people with disabilities.

Human Services
7
Dzi Foundation

Dzi partners with local communities in nepal to achieve shared prosperity by ensuring access to basic needs, catalyzing inclusive economic growth, and creating an environment for lasting change.

Human Services
8
Dispute Resolution Center of King County

We promote meaningful pathways for everyone to engage with conflict, to learn from each other, and to grow in community.

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9
Lime Connect Inc

Lime connect is leading the way as the premier resource for top talent in the disability space by attracting, preparing and connecting highly accomplished individuals, including veterans, with disabilities for careers with the world's…

Employment
10
Colorado Discover Ability

Provide adaptive sports for the disabled.

Recreation & Sports
11
Yampatika

Yampatika's mission is to inspire environmental stewardship through education. They fulfil that mission by developing environmental learning opportunities that serve the children and adults of Northwest Colorado.

Environment
12
Alpine Watershed Group

Watershed collaboration and stewardship

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission; the most unlike its peers is Steamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NW COLORADO: $202,400 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NW COLORADODIG DEEP: $200,000 · OtherDIG DEEPTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INC: $20,000 · Other+1 more: $10,000 · OtherTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $200,000 · EnvironmentTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER…LAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $55,400 · EducationLAKEHILL PREP…KIIN BEH EDUCATION CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationKIIN BEH EDUC…WOMEN CALLED MOSES COALITION AND OUTREACH INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalSteamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $21,126 · Human ServicesLAKE HIGHLANDS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORP: $5,000 · Community ImprovementYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Philanthropy
Other$432,400Environment$200,000Education$105,400Crime & Legal$50,000Recreation & Sports$40,000Human Services$21,126Community Improvement$5,000Philanthropy$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $200,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLAKEHILL PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $55,400 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN CALLED MOSES COALITION AND OUTREACH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetSteamboat Adaptive Recreational Sports: $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION: $21,126 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLAKE HIGHLANDS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

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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 Starting Block Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Starting Block Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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