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The Starseed Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $149k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $153k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORTLAND ART MUSEUM | $33,500 |
| SCRAP | $25,000 |
| DANCING GROUND | $19,500 |
| PEAR | $17,700 |
| SUPERKID POWER | $16,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
| CLACKAMAS COUNTY CHILDREN COMM | $12,000 |
| EMPOWERED MOVEMENT AERIAL | $9,000 |
| OREGON COASTS CHILDRENS THEATER | $8,530 |
| CORVALLIS YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSN | $8,500 |
| OREGON SYMPHONY | $8,000 |
| ART PRESENCE | $7,500 |
| OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $7,500 |
| GOAT IN THE ROAD PRODUCTIONS | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
69 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 13 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- DGDANCING GROUNDS8× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +73%
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM6× · 2017–2024 · $79k · revenue +3%
OREGON BALLET THEATRE5× · 2017–2021 · $73k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- HSHEAD START OF CCone grant, 2017 · $12k
- HSHEAD STARTone grant, 2023 · $11k
- PNPACIFIC NW COLLEGE OF ARTone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Founded in January 2018, Future Prairie is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit queer artist collective in Portland, Oregon. We pay LGBTQIA+ Oregon-based artists to design, curate, and produce art projects that showcase new and better dreams of the…
The mission for the central oregon center for the arts is to champion an inclusive, vibrant center for the arts that brings transformative and diverse cultural performances and experiences to central oregon during all seasons
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
The mission of third rail repertory theatre is to provide a dynamic artistic home for theatre audiences in portland by fostering a professional local company, which, through collaboration and discipline, brings to life exceptional stories…
Pbo creates transformative experiences for musicians and listeners who share in the exploration and celebration of historically inspired music. the professional orchestra presents world-class performances on period instruments for up to…
Oregon Arts Watch produces independent, professional arts and culture journalism and criticism that is transparent, fair and accurate.
Oregon contemporary theatre creates outstanding performances and programs that inspire curiosity, challenge expectation, encourage dialogue and support positive change.
Provide dramatic art performance and education.
Portland Ballet is dedicated to bringing dance to people of all ages and skill levels, while maintaining its focus on training young men and women for professional careers. Its Maines professional ballent company and leading classical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Street Art Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Girls Count. 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
92 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. 92 of the 179 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 SIGRID ARNHOLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GORGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DANCING GROUNDS ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OREGON BALLET THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SMART READING ↗
- Who funds FOUR RIVERS CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GOAT IN THE ROAD PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds HIGH DESERT CHAMBER MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds ORIGINAL PRACTICE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds BARK ↗
- Who funds CLACKAMAS COUNTY CHILDREN'S COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds PEAR ↗
- Who funds IMPACT NW ↗
- Who funds STREET ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds Stages of Life ↗
- Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS ↗
- Who funds DANCE WIRE ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds OREGON COAST CHILDRENS THEATRE ↗
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 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
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 Starseed 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.
- Clackamas County Children's Commission — 100% of income from government
- Artists Repertory Theatre — 48% of income from government
- Dance Wire — 47% of income from government
- Willamette Riverkeeper — 42% of income from government
- The Family Nurturing Center Rogue Valley Children's Relief Nursery — 38% of income from government
- Play It Forward — 30% of income from government
- Antfarm Inc — 29% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- Oregon Community Warehouse Inc — 24% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future — 17% of income from government
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
- Ywca of Greater Portland — 15% of income from government
- Lane Arts Council — 14% of income from government
- Cascade Aids Project — 13% of income from government
- The Portland Playhouse — 11% of income from government
- High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
- My Voice Music Inc — 11% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- Columbia Arts — 8% of income from government
- Impact Nw — 8% of income from government
- Think Wild — 7% of income from government
- Craterian Performances Company — 6% of income from government
- Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
- Coho Productions Inc — 5% of income from government
- Solve — 5% of income from government
- Applegate Regional Theater Inc — 4% of income from government
- Willamette Valley Symphony — 4% of income from government
- Bodyvox Inc — 3% of income from government
- Art Presence Inc — 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Steps for Youth — 2% of income from government
- Bark — 2% of income from government
- Profile Theatre Project — 2% of income from government
- Corvallis Youth Symphony Assoc — 2% of income from government
- High Desert Chamber Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Portland Street Art Alliance — 1% of income from government
- Pear — 1% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Portland Center Stage — 1% of income from government
- Caldera — 1% of income from government
- William Temple House — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Repertory Singers — 0% of income from government
- In a Landscape — 0% of income from government
- Casa of Clackamas County — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Ballet Theatre — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 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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