· Private foundation
W Paul Starkey Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
91% of W Paul Starkey Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 25 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year W Paul Starkey Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 31 organizations, $9k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $1,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $800 |
| WASHINGTON COLLEGE | $500 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $500 |
| KENT SCHOOL | $400 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $400 |
| RADCLIFF CREEK SCHOOL | $400 |
| SHORERIVERS | $400 |
| BLUE HILL FIRE DEPARTMENT | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| BLUE HILL HOSPITAL | $300 |
| ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL | $250 |
| PENINSULA AMBULANCE CORPS | $250 |
| ST ANDREW'S SCHOOL | $200 |
| INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
62 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2022, 17 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
JUDICIAL WATCH INC6× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +141%- KSKENT SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +32%
- WCWASHINGTON COLLEGE7× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $300
- CRCHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2017 · $200
- SRSASSAFRASS RIVER ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · $200
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.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
How this is measured
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 83 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RADCLIFFE CREEK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA AMBULANCE CORPS ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF KENT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds EASTERN SHORE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Chester River Hospital Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ECHO HILL OUTDOOR SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds THE USMMA SAILING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Maine Maritime Museum ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING ↗
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.
Open a dossier: David a Bramble Foundation Inc · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Fordi Family Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Lynn W and Timothy W Peters Family Foundation · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Gladwood Foundation · The Jana Fund · The Martin Foundation · Francis T & Louis T Nichols Foundation · Schumann Robert F Fdn-Main · Davis Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization W Paul Starkey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W Paul Starkey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Eastern Shore Land Conservancy Inc: 100% of income from government
- Shorerivers Inc: 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Echo Hill Outdoor School Inc: 5% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Endicott College: 1% of income from government
- Washington College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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