New York · Private foundation
The Starr Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $74M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 90
- Grants FY2024
- 72
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 72 to 131
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.4B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations The Starr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 46 | $68M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $89M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 105 | $75M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 87 | $71M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 88 | $88M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 131 | $100M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $56,772,750 | 6 | 5% |
| The Broad Institute Inc | $48,000,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Rockefeller University | $40,578,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Hebrew Home for Aged at Riverdale | $30,359,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Tsinghua Education Foundation Na Inc | $20,000,000 | 4 | 30% |
| US Chamber of Commerce Foundation | $16,000,000 | 6 | 9% |
| The Rogosin Institute Inc | $14,000,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Yale University | $12,750,000 | 4 | n/a |
| St John's University New York | $12,107,090 | 6 | 0% |
| The OSS Society Inc | $10,085,000 | 4 | 96% |
Show all 183 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($131M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Starr Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 168 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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Carnegie Corporation of New York · The Edward E & Marie L Matthews Foundation · Wolfensohn Family Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Tang Fund · United Way Miami Inc · Curtis W McGraw Foundation
How this is measured
About The Starr Foundation
- How much does The Starr Foundation give?
- The Starr Foundation reported 90 grants totaling $73,539,720 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 72 and 131 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Starr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (46%), Education (34%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are The Starr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc ($57M), The Broad Institute Inc ($48M), The Rockefeller University ($41M).
- Does The Starr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Starr Foundation 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 Starr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Edward E & Marie L Matthews Foundation.
- Where is The Starr Foundation based?
- The Starr Foundation is based in NY.
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