Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Stare Fund
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.
- $585k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 47
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $105,047
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 47
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Stare Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 44 | $579k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 47 | $531k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $554k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $618k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $513k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $483k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $479k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $472k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago Jazz Orchestra Association | $1,095,595 | 9 | 75% |
| Global Partners For Development | $329,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Health Horizons International Foundation Inc | $329,000 | 9 | 25% |
| Northwestern University | $170,000 | 8 | 0% |
| University of Colorado Foundation | $124,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Malta House of Care Foundation Inc | $105,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Santa Rosa Symphony Association | $102,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Lsu Foundation | $102,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras | $100,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Roosevelt University | $97,909 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Stare Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Anthony Crabb and Barbara Grasseschi Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Exchange Bank Foundation · The Heck Foundation · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust
How this is measured
About The Stare Fund
- How much does The Stare Fund give?
- The Stare Fund reported 46 grants totaling $585,141 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Stare Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Education (16%), Health (14%).
- Who are The Stare Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chicago Jazz Orchestra Association ($1.1M), Global Partners For Development ($329k), Health Horizons International Foundation Inc ($329k).
- Does The Stare Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Stare Fund 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 Stare Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sonoma County Community Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Anthony Crabb and Barbara Grasseschi Foundation.
- Where is The Stare Fund based?
- The Stare Fund is based in MA.
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