· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+25 grants · $71M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND | $10,000,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $10,000,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY (WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE) | $7,000,000 |
| ROGOSIN INSTITUTE INC | $5,000,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $5,000,000 |
| AMERICAN HOSPITAL OF PARIS | $5,000,000 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $5,000,000 |
| HEBREW HOME FOR THE AGED AT RIVERDALE | $4,900,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY (WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE) | $4,000,000 |
| US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY (WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE) | $3,000,000 |
| GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| FRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC | $1,600,000 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Starr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
130 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 92 since wound down; 8 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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
- NYNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC6× · 2019–2024 · $57M · revenue +32%
- TBThe Broad Institute Inc5× · 2019–2023 · $48M · revenue +58%
- UCUS Chamber of Commerce Foundation6× · 2019–2024 · $16M · revenue +45%
Funded once
- CECARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACEone grant, 2019 · $2.5M · revenue +12%
- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury Collegegraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.0M · revenue +47%
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +29%
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 institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Albert H Small Normandy Inst 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 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
182 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. 182 of the 227 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Hebrew Home for Aged at Riverdale ↗
- Who funds TSINGHUA EDUCATION FOUNDATION NA INC ↗
- Who funds US Chamber of Commerce Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Rogosin Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds The OSS Society Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SEPTEMBER 11 MEMORIAL & MUSEUM AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NOTRE-DAME DE PARIS INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES -CHINA RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF WORLD WARS ↗
- Who funds NUS AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Georgia State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
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: 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
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 Starr 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Washington College — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 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.