How much does The Starseed Foundation give?

The Starseed Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $301,467 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Starseed Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (40%), Arts & Culture (33%), Education (9%).

Who are The Starseed Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sigrid Arnhold Foundation ($527k), Dancing Grounds ($185k), Superkid Power Inc ($121k).

Does The Starseed Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Starseed Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Starseed Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Autzen Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, The Collins Foundation.

Where is The Starseed Foundation based?

The Starseed Foundation is based in OR.

Foundation Dossiers

Oregon · Private foundation

The Starseed Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$301k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 38
Grants FY2024: 48
Organizations funded FY2023: 40%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $6,373
Largest grant, FY2024: $33,500
Organizations funded a year: 27 to 65; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 4
Total assets, FY2024: $10M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations The Starseed Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationAnimalsInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	38	$301k	34%
FY2023	48	$288k	40%
FY2022	27	$611k	26%
FY2021	42	$485k	36%
FY2020	58	$293k	47%
FY2019	42	$269k	40%
FY2018	43	$277k	35%
FY2017	65	$824k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.4MArts & Culture$1.2MEducation$310kEnvironment$289kCommunity Improvement$128kHousing & Shelter$83kHuman Services$38kHealth$29kOther$0

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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sigrid Arnhold Foundation	$527,115	2	67%
Dancing Grounds	$184,699	8	6%
Superkid Power Inc	$121,106	6	n/a
Portland Art Museum	$79,060	6	0%
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc	$78,692	8	0%
Oregon Ballet Theatre	$73,250	5	0%
Smart Reading	$71,120	7	0%
Four Rivers Cultural Center and Museum	$45,318	6	1%
Goat in the Road Productions	$41,000	7	3%
High Desert Chamber Music Inc	$40,000	8	5%

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All grantees of The Starseed Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sigrid Arnhold Foundation	$527,115	2	67%
Dancing Grounds	$184,699	8	6%
Superkid Power Inc	$121,106	6	n/a
Portland Art Museum	$79,060	6	0%
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc	$78,692	8	0%
Oregon Ballet Theatre	$73,250	5	0%
Smart Reading	$71,120	7	0%
Four Rivers Cultural Center and Museum	$45,318	6	1%
Goat in the Road Productions	$41,000	7	3%
High Desert Chamber Music Inc	$40,000	8	5%
Original Practice Shakespeare Festival	$36,500	7	8%
Bark	$34,089	5	1%
Clackamas County Children's Commission	$32,000	3	0%
Bloom Dance Inc	$28,500	4	n/a
Pear	$26,200	3	1%
Impact Nw	$22,172	6	0%
Street Roots Inc	$20,000	3	0%
Stages of Life	$17,000	7	9%
Oregon Symphony Association	$16,000	3	0%
Oregon Bravo Youth Orchestras	$15,000	3	1%
Dance Wire	$15,000	3	14%
Oregon Food Bank	$13,500	3	0%
The Artback	$13,000	5	n/a
Oregon Coast Childrens Theatre	$12,500	2	8%
The Portland Playhouse	$10,500	3	0%
Lane Arts Council	$10,030	3	1%
Our House of Portland Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Neskowin Valley School	$10,000	1	2%
YWCA of Greater Portland	$10,000	2	0%
William Temple House	$9,575	3	0%
Empowered Movement Aerial	$9,000	1	4%
Play It Forward	$8,873	2	1%
Raphael House of Portland	$8,500	3	0%
Corvallis Youth Symphony Assoc	$8,500	1	3%
Cascade AIDS Project	$8,500	2	0%
Columbia Arts	$8,000	2	n/a
Oregon Society of Artists	$8,000	3	1%
Franconia Sculpture Park Legeros	$8,000	1	1%
Oregon Repertory Singers	$7,500	2	1%
Art Presence Inc	$7,500	1	8%
Willamette Valley Symphony	$7,500	2	9%
Dubuque Main Street Ltd	$7,000	1	2%
Caponi Art Park	$7,000	1	4%
My Voice Music Inc	$6,600	1	1%
Casa of Clackamas County	$5,163	2	0%
Southwest Boston Senior Services Inc D/B/A Ethos	$5,100	1	0%
The Circus Project	$5,000	1	1%
Craterian Performances Company	$5,000	1	n/a
Steps For Youth	$5,000	1	n/a
Jester Educational Theater	$5,000	1	n/a
Portland Piano International	$5,000	1	n/a
PARTNERS FOR THE PAC dba Charlene Larsen Center for the Performing Arts	$5,000	1	5%
Cerimon House	$5,000	1	3%
Bodyvox Inc	$4,650	1	0%
Fast of America Inc	$4,500	1	n/a
Partners for Healthy Students	$4,500	2	n/a
Applegate Regional Theater Inc	$4,000	1	7%
Oregon Community Warehouse Inc	$3,500	2	0%
The Library Foundation	$3,500	1	0%
Estacada Together	$3,000	1	n/a
The Aspire Project	$3,000	1	1%
Jpr Foundation Inc	$3,000	1	0%
Portland Center Stage	$3,000	2	0%
In a Landscape	$3,000	1	1%
High Desert Museum	$3,000	1	0%
Girls Build	$2,600	1	0%
Think Wild	$2,557	1	1%
Caldera	$2,500	1	n/a
Girls Count	$2,500	1	n/a
Willamette Riverkeeper	$2,000	1	0%
Antfarm Inc	$2,000	2	0%
Partners of the Americas Inc	$1,615	1	0%
The Family Nurturing Center Rogue Valley Children's Relief Nursery	$1,500	1	0%
Beaverton Education Foundation	$1,500	1	n/a
Portland Fruit Tree Project	$1,298	1	0%
Coho Productions Inc	$1,040	1	0%
Sisters of the Road Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Theatre of Yugen	$1,000	1	n/a
Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Natives of One Wind Indigenous Alliance	$1,000	1	0%
Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Harpers Playground	$1,000	1	0%
Karl Stirner Arts Trail	$1,000	1	n/a
Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future	$1,000	1	0%
Solve	$1,000	1	0%
Bridging Voices	$1,000	1	2%
Portland Street Art Alliance	$1,000	1	1%
Friends of the Albany Public Library	$1,000	1	1%
Meals on Wheels People Inc	$577	1	0%
The Forest Park Conservancy	$515	1	0%
Growing Gardens	$500	1	0%
Project Lemonade Inc	$500	1	0%
Profile Theatre Project	$500	1	0%
Artists Repertory Theatre	$500	1	0%
Bridgeway House	$500	1	0%
Rose City Rollers	$258	1	0%
Art in the Pearl Inc	$120	1	0%
United States Association for UNHCR	$100	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 80 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

The Starseed Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 82 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 82.

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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.

The Autzen FoundationOR96.1× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Autzen Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · The Collins Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Juan Young Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · James F & Marion L Miller Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Meyer Memorial Trust · Braemar Charitable Trust · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Starseed Foundation

How much does The Starseed Foundation give?: The Starseed Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $301,467 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Starseed Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (40%), Arts & Culture (33%), Education (9%).
Who are The Starseed Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sigrid Arnhold Foundation ($527k), Dancing Grounds ($185k), Superkid Power Inc ($121k).
Does The Starseed Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Starseed Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Starseed Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Autzen Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation, The Collins Foundation.
Where is The Starseed Foundation based?: The Starseed Foundation is based in OR.