· Private foundation
The Star Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
59% of The Star Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Central New York Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 19 grants below total $4,028,852 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,354,852 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $326,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k12 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $113k
- $250k+3 grants · $3.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Essex County Community Foundation | $1,286,784 |
| Long Island Community Foundation | $1,286,784 |
| Central New York Community Foundation | $1,286,784 |
| Hofstra University | $45,000 |
| Touchstone Theatre | $35,000 |
| Onondaga Earth Corps | $18,000 |
| Mercy Center | $14,500 |
| Raw Art Works. | $5,000 |
| Fund to Benefit Children & Youth, Inc. | $5,000 |
| Community Music School | $5,000 |
| School of Leadership, Afghanistan | $5,000 |
| The Dominic Cossa Scholarship Fund | $5,000 |
| Community Bike Works | $5,000 |
| Baum School of Art | $5,000 |
| PA Shakespeare Festival at DeSales University | $5,000 |
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
Degree granting college-maryland institute college of art is a private college dedicated to the education of professional artists and the further advancement of art in the community.
Susquehanna university educates students for productive, creative and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic and interdependent world.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central New York Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Music School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEW YORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TOUCHSTONE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds ONONDAGA ENVIRONMENTAL INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds PENNYSLVANIA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE BAUM SCHOOL OF ART ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE INFORMATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FUND TO BENEFIT CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS ↗
- Who funds REPERTORY DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ALLENTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds ALBUQUERQUE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Century Fund Trust · Harry C Trexler Estate · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Air Products Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Verna O Canova Foundation · The Rider-Pool Foundation · Dexter F and Dorothy H Baker Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · Amaranth Foundation · Butz Foundation
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.