Starr Foundation

One of largest private foundations in U.S.

The Starr Foundation was established in 1955 by Cornelius Vander Starr, an insurance entrepreneur who founded C.V. Starr & Co. and other companies later combined by his successor, Maurice R. Greenberg into what became the American International Group, Inc. Mr. Starr, a pioneer of globalization, set up his first insurance venture in Shanghai in 1919. He died in 1968 at the age of 76, leaving his estate to the Foundation. The Foundation currently has assets of approximately $1.25 billion, making it one of the largest private foundations in the United States. It makes grants in a number of areas, including education, medicine and healthcare, human needs, public policy, culture and the environment.

Relationships Interlocks Giving Data

Leadership & Staff

Howard I Smith

• Director

Florence A Davis Former counsel at AIG and Morgan Stanley

• Director

John J Roberts Director at Starr Foundation; former AIG exec

• Director

Edward E Matthews President of C.V. Starr & Co.; former AIG and Morgan Stanley exec

• Director

Courtney O'Malley

• Vice president

Cornelius Vander Starr Founder of the company that became AIG

• Founder ('55)

Board Members

Corinne P Greenberg

• Board Member

T C Hsu

• Board Member

Bertil P Lundqvist

• Board Member

Maurice R Greenberg Billionaire; Former Chairman and CEO of AIG

• Chairman

Donations

Temple University State-related research university in Philadelphia, PA

• Grant · 5,000,000 USD ('04)

Teach for America Leadership training & short term K12 teaching program oriented around districts with poverty

• Grant · 1,000,000 USD

New York City Police Foundation Private foundation supporting NYPD programs

• Donation · 100,000 USD ('09→'10)

Brookings Institute Major Washington think tank

• Donation · 100,000 USD ('09)

Opportunity NYC – Family Rewards (Conditional Cash Transfer) Pilot Program 2007-2010

• Grant ('07→'10)

Young Audiences Arts for Learning

• Donation/Grant

NYC Center for Economic Opportunity established by Mayor Bloomberg in 2006

• Grant

The Asia Foundation non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to the development of a peaceful, prosperous, just, and open Asia-Pacific

• Donation

Peterson Institute for International Economics Nonprofit research institution studies economic policy, globalization; supports free trade, neoliberal foreign policy

• Grant

C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience

• Grant ('00)

Miscellaneous Relationships

True North Fund: Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Capital Aggregation Vehicle for Youth Impact Investing - SIF Partner

• Investment ('11→?)*