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The Littlestar Foundation

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.

$90k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$90,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$90,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Littlestar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$90k0%
FY20241$88k0%
FY20231$245k100%
FY20223$178k67%
FY202112$80k42%
FY202012$80k33%
FY201911$80k27%
FY201811$85kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$672kFood & Nutrition$75kHealth$44kArts & Culture$43kReligion$32kYouth Development$23kHuman Services$15kAnimals$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
IN
CO
KY
KS
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hill Country Daily Bread$75,00040%
The Navigators$30,0004n/a
Hill Country Pregnancy Care Center$23,00041%
Young Life$23,00030%
Project Mercy Inc$18,00030%
Transformation House$15,00034%
Project RED$13,00031%
The Gathering$12,64841%
San Antonio Christian Dental Clinic$10,00010%
Turning Point Ministries International Inc$5,0001n/a
Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of The Littlestar Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hill Country Daily Bread$75,00040%
The Navigators$30,0004n/a
Hill Country Pregnancy Care Center$23,00041%
Young Life$23,00030%
Project Mercy Inc$18,00030%
Transformation House$15,00034%
Project RED$13,00031%
The Gathering$12,64841%
San Antonio Christian Dental Clinic$10,00010%
Turning Point Ministries International Inc$5,0001n/a
Re Cancer$5,00014%
Orphan's Tree Inc$5,00011%

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($692k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Littlestar Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHill Country Daily Bread: $75,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHill Country Pregnancy Care Center: $23,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetYoung Life: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Mercy Inc: $18,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTransformation House: $15,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetProject RED: $13,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Gathering: $12,648 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSan Antonio Christian Dental Clinic: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRe Cancer: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetOrphan's Tree Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

San Antonio Area FoundationTX13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: San Antonio Area Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Littlestar Foundation

How much does The Littlestar Foundation give?
The Littlestar Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $90,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Littlestar Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (73%), Food & Nutrition (8%), Health (5%).
Who are The Littlestar Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Hill Country Daily Bread ($75k), The Navigators ($30k), Hill Country Pregnancy Care Center ($23k).
Does The Littlestar Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Littlestar Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Littlestar Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include San Antonio Area Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is The Littlestar Foundation based?
The Littlestar Foundation is based in TX.

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 26 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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