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STAR ROCK MINISTRIES
Star Rock Ministries partners with donors and organizations to gift Christ-centered camp experiences that grow faith, relationships, character, and life skills to youth from under-resourced communities and the U.S.
$789k
Granted FY2024
20
Grants
3
Communities
$107k
Largest
01What you fund
0167% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Religion$851kEducation$207kArts & Culture$184kHuman Services$178kCommunity Improvement$135kPhilanthropy$35kHousing & Shelter$20kPublic Safety & Disaster$17kOther$797k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
urban
2021
financingdistrictaffordablehousingurbanliveseducation
2022
retreats religioussummerreligious trainingcampschildren attendconferencesmiddle schoolers
2023
weeklong adventureadventure summersummer experienceexperience sierrasierra mountainsmountains churchchildren attend
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 20 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k15 grants · $375k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $405k
$28,333
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
- San Onofre Elementary School$106,560
- Urban Youth Workers Institute (UYWI)$85,000
- Passion LA$78,268
- Light and Life Christian Fellowship$69,286
- Unidos South OC$66,335
- The Wooden Floor$48,960
- Revive Church$43,213
- CREER Communidad y Familia$32,327
- KidWorks Community Development$30,509
- Del Obispo Elementary$28,333
- CRU$25,135
- Together LA$25,000
- Twentynine Palms Elementary School$22,010
- Stronger Boys Camp$21,250
- The Summer Institute$20,625
02The need
04
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 17 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else
17 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
17
3
Total granted
$2.3M
$69k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+24%
+199%
Still filing today
82%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UYUrban Youth Workers Institute5× · 2020–2024 · $752k · revenue +24%
- PLPassion LA2× · 2023–2024 · $135k · revenue +1270%
- USUnidos South OC Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $104k · revenue +288%
Funded once
- CCCREER Communidad y Familiaone grant, 2022 · $37k
- PSPeople's Self-Help Housinggraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +41%
- LHLEAD Houstongraduatedone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue +199%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
1
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles
Through a school-based coordinator, we strategically align and deliver needed resources empowering students to stay in school and achieve in life
Youth Development
2
The City of Los Angeles Workforce Development Board
The Workforce Development Board promotes workforce development activitieswhich connect Los Angeles jobseekers and youth to training, workforce preparedness and employment opportunities. Facilitates placing youth into private,public &…
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3
Los Angeles Unified School District
Maximize resources and support for the district's core educational priorities to support students.
Education
4
Urbanpromise Los Angeles Inc
To provide the children and youth of los angeles with the holistic support they need to become christian leaders determined to restore their communities.
Public Benefit
5
San Domenico School
Dedicated to being california's leading independent school, (continue on schedule o)serving kindergarten through twelfth grade students of all faiths, san domenico is committed to excellence in education, preparing the next generation of…
Education
6
Chicano & Latino Youth Leadership
To enhance and build the leadership potential of california's chicano/latino youth to build communities and create a stronger and more prosperous state and nation.
Youth Development
7
Legacy La Youth Development Corp
To make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. legacy la builds the capacity of youth to reach their full potential and equips them with tools to transform their lives and…
Crime & Legal
8
Community Build Inc
To provide family, youth, community outreach and economic development services.
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9
Children's Institute of Los Angeles
To transform the lives of children exposed to adversity and persistent poverty.
Human Services
10
Si Se Puede Schools
To partner with urban public school districts in texas to create and manage neighborhood schools that prepare all students to enter, succeed in and graduate from college.
Education
11
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools
Transform schools to revolutionize school systems to empower all students with a high-quality education.
Education
12
United Way Inc
We can accomplish more together than alone. by combining community power, (cont. on sch. o) donations and new solutions to long standing challenges we can support neighbors on a pathway from poverty to prosperity.
Philanthropy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Passion La and the most unlike its peers is Brave Global. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Religion$850,517Other$834,377Education$207,337Arts & Culture$184,055Human Services$178,031Community Improvement$135,012Philanthropy$35,000
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Urban Youth Workers Institute (UYWI) ↗
- Who funds San Onofre Elementary School ↗
- Who funds Wooden Floor ↗
- Who funds Passion LA ↗
- Who funds Unidos South OC Inc ↗
- Who funds Revive Church ↗
- Who funds Del Obispo Elementary ↗
- Who funds Kidworks ↗
- Who funds CREER Communidad y Familia ↗
- Who funds The Summer Institute ↗
- Who funds Solidarity ↗
- Who funds Together LA ↗
- Who funds Project Hope Alliance ↗
- Who funds People's Self-Help Housing ↗
- Who funds Rescue a Generation Inc ↗
- Who funds ICNA Relief Southern California ↗
- Who funds Spectrum Ministries ↗
- Who funds LEAD Houston ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Orange County Community FoundationCA23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation STAR ROCK MINISTRIES funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Revive Church.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 823736850 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Revive Church, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 79% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Star Rock Ministries?
Find your warmest path to Star Rock Ministries through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines