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Tri-Valley Morning Star Foundation

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.

$25k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2026
11
Organizations funded FY2025
82%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$1,382
Largest grant, FY2026
$17,420
Organizations funded a year
4 to 11
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
5
Total assets, FY2026
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 82% of the organizations Tri-Valley Morning Star Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyInternationalEnvironmentHealthEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving9$25k67%
FY202511$10k82%
FY20247$10k57%
FY20237$5k86%
FY20225$5k40%
FY20214$13k25%
FY20195$6kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$39kEducation$7kPhilanthropy$2kInternational$560Public Safety & Disaster$500Environment$406Recreation & Sports$350Arts & Culture$226Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MT
NY
MA
PA
CA
NE
DE
AZ
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tri-Valley Bread of Life Christian Church$25,2304n/a
Groton School$4,97870%
Georgetown University$1,87040%
International Patrons of Duomo Di Milano Inc$5001n/a
School Fund$22010%
Yellowstone Forever$20610%
Grand Canyon Conservancy$1001n/a
Hope for PDCD Foundation$10010%
Gofundmeorg$10010%
Donorschooseorg$2510%

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($41k), not named here.

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About Tri-Valley Morning Star Foundation

How much does Tri-Valley Morning Star Foundation give?
Tri-Valley Morning Star Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $25,281 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Tri-Valley Morning Star Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2026, its largest causes are Religion (77%), Education (13%), Philanthropy (3%).
Who are Tri-Valley Morning Star Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2026: Tri-Valley Bread of Life Christian Church ($25k), Groton School ($5k), Georgetown University ($2k).
Does Tri-Valley Morning Star Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tri-Valley Morning Star Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is Tri-Valley Morning Star Foundation based?
Tri-Valley Morning Star Foundation is based in CA.

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 35 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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