· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $347k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Chicago Jazz Orchestra Association | $105,047 |
| Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras | $50,000 |
| Santa Rosa Symphony Association | $42,500 |
| Northwestern University | $40,000 |
| ACLU | $35,047 |
| Jewish Family Service of Metrowest | $25,000 |
| Global Partners for Development | $22,000 |
| LSU Foundation | $15,000 |
| St Vincent de Paul Place | $15,000 |
| Hearthstone Village | $15,000 |
| Roosevelt University | $14,000 |
| Natick Service Council | $13,000 |
| Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology | $13,000 |
| Healdsburg Jazz Fest | $12,500 |
| Friend Memorial Public Library | $12,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
Northwestern University8× · 2018–2025 · $170k · revenue +33%- UOUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $124k · revenue +79%
- LFLSU FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $102k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- RCREDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -95%
- SCSonoma County Library Foundationone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -7%
- TRTRADITIONAL RAGTIME AND DIXIELAND JAZZ APPRECIATION STRUTTERS SOCIETone grant, 2022 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Education and Research
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra and the most unlike its peers is Maine Mobile Health Program Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
60 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. 60 of the 91 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 CHICAGO JAZZ ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Global Partners For Development ↗
- Who funds HEALTH HORIZONS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LSU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds Roosevelt University ↗
- Who funds HEARTHSTONE VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIEND MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL SOCIETY FOR AID TO CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds NATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HEALDSBURG EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KISMET ROCK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PARK INN INC ↗
- Who funds MALTA HOUSE OF CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALDSBURG JAZZ FESTIVAL INC ↗
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: 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
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Stare Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- South Park Inn Inc — 29% of income from government
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc — 2% of income from government
- Community Labor United Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.