· Private foundation
The Starke Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $61k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $190k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH | $90,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND | $50,000 |
| CHARITY WATER | $50,000 |
| UNIVERITY OF RICHMOND ADVANCEMENT SYSTEMS | $25,000 |
| LONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DYSAUTONOMIA INTERNATIONAL | $11,220 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $226k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LULONGWOOD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +3%
- SBSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE7× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +2%
- MFMAYMONT FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- BCBELLARMINE COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $2k
- FMFEED MORE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +59%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF RICHMONDone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +10%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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).
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…
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…
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…
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.
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
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.
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…
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…
Facilitating statewide collaboration among Virginia's food banks, partners, and neighbors to improve nutrition security and empower strong, healthy communities.
To assist rural virginians in developing and advancing their agricultural, economic and social interests to enhance their quality of life.
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.
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Starke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Starke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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