· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE DAF | $90,000 |
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 (FY19–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -48% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HCHILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD4× · 2018–2022 · $75k · revenue +45%
- HCHILL COUNTRY PREGNANCY CARE CENTER4× · 2018–2021 · $23k · revenue +77%
- YLYOUNG LIFE3× · 2018–2020 · $23k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- IIIMPACT INVESTING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $160k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $11k
- SPSTORY PARTNERS MINISTRIESone 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.
Houston Legal Aid Center protects and advances the rights of the poor through the poor through the provision of pro bono or reduced cost legal services while also addressing the underlying spiritual and relational issues affecting…
Our mission is to provide quality comprehensive free or low cost medical care for the uninsured, whatever their race or religion. The Clinic's services are available to any uninsured adult, 18 years old or older.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
The Pregnancy Care Center is a Christian organization to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to boldly endorse the sacredness of all human life, by providing comprehensive, practical services as enduring alternatives to abortion.
When care is within reach, lives change. Texas Community Counseling is a faith-based nonprofit committed to bringing hope and healing through mental health care to the communities that need it the most. We empower individuals to heal,…
The mission of the Good Samaritan Center is to provide a safe, Christ- Centered environment that gives our patients quality, coordinated and affordable healthcare.
The mission of First Refuge Ministries is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ by offering essential services to those in need within our community. Our belief is that every person has worth and value since they are created by God. Our goal…
Our mission is to show the love of christ to each and every child and family towhom we serve and beyond. we do this by creating a culture where the needs of children,families, and staff are seen and met in creative and innovative ways.
Tender Life is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help and hope for women during their pregnancies and beyond.
LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.
Post-abortive and family crisis counseling via small groups, email, and publications; focus is to bring healing and forgiveness in a supportive, Christ-centered environment.
How this is measured
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 26 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 HILL COUNTRY DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds HILL COUNTRY PREGNANCY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds Transformation House ↗
- Who funds Project RED ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO CHRISTIAN DENTAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Re Cancer ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN'S TREE 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Littlestar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Littlestar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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