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Star Sponsorship Program Inc

Tuition for students of low-income families.

$282k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.7MReligion$86k
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $265,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $282,200 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,300 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $244k
$19,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$270k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Rita Catholic School$42,800
Christian Life Prep School$38,400
St Andrews Catholic SchooL$32,900
All Saints Catholic School$24,300
Fellowship Academy$21,000
St George School$19,400
Bethesda Christian School$19,000
St Peter the Apostle School$17,800
Mercy Culture Preparatory$16,700
Temple Christian East$11,800
Holy Family Catholic School$9,200
Cristo Rey FW$7,200
Southwest Christian$5,400
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%All Saints Catholic School: $36k → 11%All Saints Catholic School: $33k → 11%All Saints Catholic School: $32k → 11%All Saints Catholic School: $31k → 11%All Saints Catholic School: $31k → 11%All Saints Catholic School: $31k → 11%All Saints Catholic School: $30k → 11%All Saints Catholic School: $24k → 11%St Rita Catholic School: $53k → 11%Bethesda Christian School: $19k → 11%St Rita Catholic School: $49k → 11%St Rita Catholic School: $48k → 11%St Rita Catholic School: $43k → 11%St Rita Catholic School: $35k → 11%St Rita Catholic School: $32k → 11%St Rita Catholic School: $31k → 11%St Rita Catholic School: $29k → 11%St Peter the Apostle School: $26k → 11%St Peter the Apostle School: $22k → 11%St Peter the Apostle School: $18k → 11%Fellowship Academy: $21k → 11%St Andrews Catholic School: $35k → 11%St Andrews Catholic SchooL: $33k → 11%St Andrews Catholic School: $28k → 11%St Andrews Catholic School: $28k → 11%Our Lady of Victory School: $22k → 11%St Andrews Catholic School: $22k → 11%Our Lady of Victory School: $22k → 11%St Andrews Catholic School: $19k → 11%Our Lady of Victory School: $21k → 11%St Andrews Catholic School: $18k → 11%Our Lady of Victory School: $20k → 11%St Andrews Catholic School: $18k → 11%Calvary Christian Academy: $28k → 11%St George School: $20k → 11%St George School: $19k → 11%Calvary Christian Academy: $19k → 11%St George School: $17k → 11%Calvary Christian Academy: $17k → 11%St George School: $17k → 11%Mercy Culture Preparatory: $17k → 11%Christian Life Preparatory School: $20k → 11%Christian Life Preparatory School: $16k → 11%Christian Life Preparatory School: $16k → 11%Temple Christian East: $17k → 11%Temple Christian East: $17k → 11%Christian Life Prep School: $38k → 11%Christian Life Prep School: $28k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 18 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
1

Total granted

$1.8M
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
0%

Still filing today

28%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CL
    Christian Life Preparatory School
    7× · 2018–2025 · $147k · revenue +85%
  • SC
    SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $17k · revenue +9%
  • CR
    CRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • BA
    BRAVEHEART ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

6 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. 6 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Rita Catholic School: $319,350 · OtherSt Rita Catholic SchoolALL SAINTS CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $248,593 · OtherALL SAINTS CATHOLIC SCHOOLST ANDREWS CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $201,580 · OtherST ANDREWS CATHOLIC SCHOOLMERCY CULTURE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $133,475 · OtherMERCY CULTURE PREPARATORY SCHOOLST PETER THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC: $128,345 · OtherST PETER THE APOSTLE CATHOLICSt George School: $111,800 · OtherSt George SchoolTemple Christian East: $107,050 · OtherTemple Christian EastFort Worth Academy: $95,200 · OtherFort Worth AcademyBETHESDA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $84,900 · OtherBETHESDA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCOur Lady of Victory School: $84,750 · OtherOur Lady of Victory School+3 more: $47,700 · OtherChristian Life Preparatory School: $147,145 · EducationChristian Life…FELLOWSHIP ACADEMY: $40,000 · EducationFELLOWSHIP ACA…SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $17,400 · EducationSOUTHWEST CHRI…CRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $15,200 · EducationCRISTO REY FOR…TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL: $14,000 · EducationTRINITY VALLEY…+1 more: $4,000 · Education
Other$1,562,743Education$237,745

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChristian Life Preparatory School: $147,145 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFELLOWSHIP ACADEMY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $17,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $15,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVEHEART ACADEMY INC: $4,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budget
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 Christian Life Preparatory School ↗
  • Who funds FELLOWSHIP ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY FORT WORTH CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BRAVEHEART ACADEMY INC ↗

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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX29.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Stephen Breen Memorial Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Star Sponsorship Program Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Star Sponsorship Program Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Star Sponsorship Program Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Star Sponsorship Program Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 19 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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