Minnesota · Nonprofit
STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION
STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $758,453 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($133,162). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $870k
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $758k
- Net assets
- $889k
What Star Legacy Foundation does
Mission
Stillbirth awareness, research, education, and family support
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Researchconducted the pregnancy research project. - enrolled participants from 49 states and 29 different countries. Funded grants for 2 external research projects
$55,707 spent9% of program spendingFamily supportprovided support to more than 400 families through the support line. Nearly 2,000 people attended 198 hours of support groups. Added a new support group dedicated to early pregnancy loss, and expanded the number of sessions for our fathers and grandparents group. Supported 912 families through the minnesota and wisconsin centers for stillbirth and infant death. Provided monthly childbirth education classes for pregnancy after loss. Provided more than 800,00 free patient education materials to healthcare providers, clinics and hospitals to utilize in caring for their perinatal patients.
$309,374 spentof which $100 as grants50% of program spendingEducationlaunched the international partnership for perinatal excellence (ippe) professional network, education and certification program. Certified the first 20 ippe members. Added 14 new virtual education modules for health professionals. Hosted 14 new in person education workshops. Educated more than 1,200 health professionals on perinatal loss prevention and care topics.
$91,244 spent15% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$168,101 spent27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $624,426.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $801k to $1.2M (+46%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 0% · 2020 5% · 2021 13% · 2022 9% · 2023 9% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
40% of STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lindsey Wimmer
Executive director
Board chair
Barbara Toppin
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $17k → $107k.
12 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
63% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 97% · 2019 34% · 2020 43% · 2021 34% · 2022 27% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
24% of STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
54% of STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $350k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 19 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $408k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 13,754 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
64% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION?
- STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $758,453 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($133,162). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $758,453 in grants to STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $133,162 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STAR LEGACY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 52 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing