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THE STARKE FOUNDATION
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$251k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
3
Communities
$90k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of THE STARKE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $190k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH$90,000
- CHARITY WATER$50,000
- YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND$50,000
- UNIVERITY OF RICHMOND ADVANCEMENT SYSTEMS$25,000
- LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$25,000
- DYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL$11,220
02The need
03
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 7%. 99% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
20%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$59k · 9 repeat orgs$236k to everyone else
9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
9
9
Total granted
$59k
$10k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+30%
+51%
Still filing today
56%
33%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
HealthEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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
- LULONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +39%
LEWY BODY DEMENTIA ASSOCIATION2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +33%- HEHANOVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- BCBELLARMINE COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $2k
- SCSWEETBRIAR COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $2k
- FFEEDMOREone grant, 2017 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virignia commonwealth university intellectual property foundation's mission is to foster a culture of innovation at virginia commonwealth university (vcu) and to protect and commercialize inventions created by the vcu research enterprise…
Health
2
Vcu Investment Management Company
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
Education
3
Virginia Commonwealth University
The foundation supports and promotes the activities and mission of the school of business at virginia commonwealth university. it solicits, manages and distributes assets for programs within the school of business. through those…
Education
4
University of Virginia Foundation
To provide administrative services to university entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real property for the benefit of the…
Education
5
Longwood University Trust
To support the educational and charitable purposes of longwood university.
Education
6
Old Dominion University Research
Serves as the administrative and fiscal agent for sponsored research, training grants and other sponsored programs for old dominion university, a commonwealth of virginia institution of higher education.
Education
7
Virginia Foundation for the
Financial support for educational programs and services to the community, educational institutions and other civic organizations.
Arts & Culture
8
University of Virginia Investment
Uvimco is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations(uaos).
Education
9
West Virginia State University
To support the mission of west virginia state university.
Education
10
Virginia Commonwealth University Foundat
To support the educational,scientific & charitable activities of vcu.
Education
11
Jefferson Scholars Foundation
The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).
Philanthropy
12
The Virginia College Fund
Solicitation of public contributions on behalf of member colleges. provides foundations, businesses, and individuals a convenient way of supporting small colleges and universities in virginia.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Longwood University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Richmond. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$241,400Education$34,000Health$15,020Housing & Shelter$3,550Arts & Culture$1,000Food & Nutrition$250
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.
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.
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation THE STARKE FOUNDATION 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~26 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 455437249 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on DYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 26 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Starke Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Starke Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines