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The Starrett Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $224k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTTOWN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY | $43,800 |
| DELAWARE WILD LANDS | $40,000 |
| BRANDYWINE CONSERVANCY AND MUSEUM OF ART | $40,000 |
| ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| TOWER HILL SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA | $10,000 |
| DELAWARE ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF DELAWARE | $10,000 |
| LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY | $5,000 |
| TRISTATE BIRD RESCUE | $5,000 |
| BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–19, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- THTOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2021 · $156k · revenue +75%
- BCBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art4× · 2017–2021 · $139k · revenue +144%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF DELAWARE INC4× · 2018–2021 · $87k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- VFVIRGINIA FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIESone grant, 2017 · $50k
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +112%- DCDELAWARE CENTER FOR INLAND BAYSone grant, 2020 · $20k
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 western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The zoological society of pittsburgh is dedicated to being a leader in, and significant contributor to, the conservation of endangered and threatened species. the society provides an enjoyable family experience that fosters understanding,…
The organization's mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history and technology of delaware and the delmarva peninsula's farm life/culture and to offer public education programs and services related to aspects of the…
Acquire and preserve property and information of historic value and/or interest concerning delaware county, pennsylvania. the society also operates a research library and museum.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Nature Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chester County Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 67 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 32 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
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 DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY FOR SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Willistown Conservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds PHILANDER CHASE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC HORSEBACK RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds NEXTGEN FACE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE CENTER FOR HORTICULTURE INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BRANDYWINE RED CLAY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · The Rock Oak Foundation · Nyssa Foundation · Vinton Family Foundation · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Rencourt Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Ellason Downs Perpetual Charitable Trust · Marmot Foundation · Welfare Foundation Inc
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 Starrett 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Planned Parenthood of Delaware Inc — 19% of income from government
- Delaware Nature Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Delaware Symphony Association Inc — 11% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- Delaware Art Museum Inc — 8% of income from government
- Delaware Center for Horticulture Inc — 4% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
- Tower Hill School Association — 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.
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