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The Tlc Starfish Foundation Ltd

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2026still arriving
35
Grants FY2026still arriving
8
States reached
$551k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Youth Development$2.3MHealth$557kPhilanthropy$489kRecreation & Sports$396kHuman Services$246kEducation$198kArts & Culture$91kCivil Rights$47kOther$0
02FY2026 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k24 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $105k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$4,620
Median grant
8
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION (SCOPE)$551,400
PROJECT MORRY$500,000
RILEY'S WAY FOUNDATION$25,000
CAMP HERRLICH$10,000
SANDY HOOK PROMISE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
ETHAN FALKOWITZ FOUNDATION$10,000
CHANGE SUMMER$10,000
VALERIE FUND$10,000
GLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA$10,000
FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$10,000
DREW HASSENBEIN FOUNDATION$5,547
SUNRISE ASSOCIATION$5,000
AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–26, $244k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND: $60k → 7%SCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND: $53k → 7%SCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND: $50k → 7%SCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND: $20k → 7%SCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL: $10k → 7%LABORERS LOCAL 66 CHARITABLE CORP: $1k → 7%LABORERS LOCAL 66 CHARITABLE CORP: $1k → 7%HELP US ADOPT: $1k → 17%HELP US ADOPT: $1k → 17%ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $10k → 17%VISCARDI CENTER: $100 → 6%ROAD TO SUCCESS: $5k → 17%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $9k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $7k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $2k → 6%SUNRISE DAY CAMP: $2k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 6%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%SID JACOBSON JCC: $4k → 6%SID JACOBSON JCC: $500 → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
MD
AR
TN
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 59 repeat orgs$466k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2026, 34 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
83

Total granted

$6.4M
$449k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+11%

Still filing today

69%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
HealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SC
    SUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC
    9× · 2018–2026 · $2.3M · revenue +151%
  • BH
    BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $577k · revenue +58%
  • MC
    MORRY'S CAMP INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $234k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • WR
    WELLNESS RX CHARITABLE TRUST
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • CA
    COLLEGE AT ONEONTA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • RS
    RILEY SANDLER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $38k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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2
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
3
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
4
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
5
New York Cardiac Center Inc

The mission of the new york cardiac center is to be a part of the ongoing effort to diagnose and prevent heart and other diseases. we help to develop treatment for those who need it and assist in training new scientists, educators, and…

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6
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
7
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
8
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research

The feinstein institute for medical research ("the institute") is the research branch of northwell health ("northwell"). through its affiliation with northwell, the institute's mission is to bridge the gap between biomedical research and…

Health
11
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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12
William Guy Forbeck Research Foundation

With its origin in pediatric cancer, the william guy forbeck research foundation promotes advances in cancer research through collaboration

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roads to Success Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Nassau County Firefighters Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 154 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/77
Grantees still filing
57/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC: $2,349,207 · Youth DevelopmentSUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATIO…CHANGE SUMMER INC: $110,000 · Youth Development+8 more: $143,250 · Youth Development+8 morePROJECT MORRY: $1,425,000 · OtherPROJECT MORRYIndividual grant recipient: $175,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+99 more: $850,576 · Other+99 moreBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $576,795 · HealthBILL HILLARY &…Margaretville Health Foundation: $227,000 · HealthMargaretville …+15 more: $70,675 · Health+15 moreMORRY'S CAMP INC: $233,805 · Recreation & SportsBoston Explorers Inc: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsGLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC: $70,000 · Recreation & SportsDREW HASSENBEIN FOUNDATION INC: $16,926 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsSCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND INC: $193,106 · Human ServicesSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $26,595 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $10,000 · Human Services+7 more: $16,382 · Human ServicesRILEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $30,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $2,963 · PhilanthropyPHOENICIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $47,197 · EducationHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationEmory University: $10,000 · EducationSIENA UNIVERSITY: $7,287 · Education+2 more: $1,250 · Education
Youth Development$2,602,457Other$2,450,576Health$874,470Recreation & Sports$426,731Human Services$246,083Philanthropy$182,963Education$90,734

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC: $2,349,207 over 9y, 21% of budgetBILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $576,795 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMORRY'S CAMP INC: $233,805 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMargaretville Health Foundation: $227,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND INC: $193,106 over 5y, 13% of budgetRILEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetCHANGE SUMMER INC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBoston Explorers Inc: $100,000 over 7y, 10% of budgetMT TREMPER OUTDOOR MINISTRIES INC: $81,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetGLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC: $70,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPHOENICIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $47,197 over 2y, 16% of budgetCAMP HORSEABILITY INC: $45,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $36,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEAST HAMPTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $30,500 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE ACTION FUND: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ETHAN FALKOWITZ FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $26,595 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREW HASSENBEIN FOUNDATION INC: $16,926 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetGLEN COVE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AT LINCOLN HOUSE INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSOPHIE GERSON HEALTHY YOUTH INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTERFAITH NUTRITION NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELIEVE IN A CURE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FAMILY CENTER FOR ACHIEVEMENT CO LIFE'S WORC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY: $7,287 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTOMORROW'S HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROADS TO SUCCESS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRenaissance Youth Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSID JACOBSON JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHELPUSADOPTORG INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $3,053 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShandaken Theatrical Society Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetYOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARION MUSIC SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMORGAN PARK SUMMER MUSICAL FESTIVAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLABORERS LOCAL 66 CHARITABLE CORP: $2,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SUMMER CAMP OPPORTUNITIES PROMOTE EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MORRY'S CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds Margaretville Health Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SCOTT J BEIGEL MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds RILEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHANGE SUMMER INC ↗
  • Who funds Boston Explorers Inc ↗
  • Who funds MT TREMPER OUTDOOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PHOENICIA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HORSEABILITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VALERIE FUND ↗
  • Who funds EAST HAMPTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE ACTION FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE ETHAN FALKOWITZ FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PRIORITIES USA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds DREW HASSENBEIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GLEN COVE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AT LINCOLN HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundNY19.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Marilyn Lichtman Foundation · Iris & Saul Katz Family Foundation Inc · Peter & Jeri Dejana Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Express Foundation · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Morgan Stanley Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Boston Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Tlc Starfish Foundation Ltd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tlc Starfish Foundation Ltd. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 55%
  • Safe Passage Inc: 55% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Tlc Starfish Foundation Ltd through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 154 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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