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The Starke Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$251k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$100kReligion$90kEducation$69kHealth$14kArts & Culture$7kFood & Nutrition$5kAnimals$4kHousing & Shelter$4kOther$0
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
RecipientAmount
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:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $50k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$63k · 9 repeat orgs$232k 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
6

Total granted

$63k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+81%

Still filing today

78%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • LU
    LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +3%
  • SB
    SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +2%
  • MF
    MAYMONT FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +122%

Funded once

  • BC
    BELLARMINE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • FM
    FEED MORE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +59%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +10%

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
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (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
2
William & Mary Foundation

The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…

Education
3
University of Lynchburg

The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…

Education
4
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
5
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
6
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

7
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.

8
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health
9
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
10
Federation of Virginia Food Banks

Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.

11
Virginia Foundation for Agriculture Innovation and Rural Sustainability

To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.

Environment
12
University of Virginia Law School Foundation

The university of virginia law school foundation's primary purpose is to receive, manage and expend funds for the benefit of the university of virginia school of law.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed More Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH — $90,000 · OtherSECOND BAPTIST CHURCHUNIVERITY OF RICHMOND ADVANCEMENT SYSTEMS — $25,000 · OtherUNIVERITY OF RICHMOND ADVANCEMENT SYSTEMS+4 more — $9,600 · Other+4 moreCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INCYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) — $50,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of G…LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $31,000 · EducationLONGWOOD UNIVERS…SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE — $8,000 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INST…HANOVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $2,000 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC — $11,220 · HealthLewy Body Dementia Association Inc — $3,000 · HealthGLOBALBIKE INC — $1,800 · HealthMAYMONT FOUNDATION — $7,000 · Arts & CultureCARITAS — $3,550 · Housing & ShelterFEED MORE INC — $1,000 · Food & NutritionPlenty Inc — $250 · Food & NutritionWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP — $800 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$124,600Human Services$100,000Education$42,000Health$16,020Arts & Culture$7,000Housing & Shelter$3,550Food & Nutrition$1,250Public Safety & Disaster$800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $31,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC — $11,220 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE — $8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMAYMONT FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS — $3,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLewy Body Dementia Association Inc — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHANOVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBALBIKE INC — $1,800 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFEED MORE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlenty Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 CHARITY GLOBAL INC
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769)
  • Who funds LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds DYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE
  • Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CARITAS
  • Who funds Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc
  • Who funds HANOVER EDUCATION FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GLOBALBIKE INC
  • Who funds FEED MORE INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND
  • Who funds WORLD BICYCLE RELIEF NFP
  • Who funds Plenty 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 organization 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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