Missouri · Nonprofit
A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND
A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND (Missouri) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,630,065 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,069,200). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 80
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What A Million Stars Inc Dba College Bound does
Mission
Through an individualized, holistic, and multi-year committment, college bound empowers promising students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve bachelor's degrees and fulfilling careers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
College bound's to and through is a comprehensive, seven-to-nine year program that has proven successful in helping promising low-income first-generation (neither parent graduated from a four-year college) students get into and graduate from college at over five times the rate of their peers.college bound's to and through college preparation programming for high school students builds a foundation for success at selective four-year institutions through the development of academic competencies and social skills. Beginning at the end of 9th grade, college bound provides students with weekly opportunities, week-long intensives, and summer institutes and workshops that strengthen capacities in math, writing, critical thinking and test taking. During junior year, students receive intensive act preparation and take the act. College bound students also regularly participate in extracurricular activities, such as community service and cultural opportunities, to develop non-cognitive skills that support academic achievement and dgree completion in school.additionally, college bound's college access programming prepares students for application and entry at selective colleges that closely…
$1,838,774 spent84% of program spendingAt the college level, complete u is the primary to and through program. Complete u begins in the second semester of 12th grade and remains an active part of students' lives until they graduate from college. In the high school portion of complete u, students prepare for the emotional and psychological challenges of transition; they participate in a financial literacy program and learn the hidden rules of classroom etiquette and residential life from experienced college advisors. After students matriculate to college, they receive a broad safety net of human and financial resources. The goal of complete u is to ensure that college bound students who are admitted to college are able to successfully graduate from college and become strong contributors within their communities and the workforce.
$362,075 spent16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,200,849.
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 2017 to 2018, from $4.6M to $5.9M (+29%).
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: 2017 13% · 2018 7% · 2019 12% · 2020 17% · 2023 11% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Milton Mitchell
Executive director
Board chair
Jill Anderson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $403k → $1.0M.
18 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 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
A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
48% 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 A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 26% · 2019 21% · 2020 19% · 2021 18% · 2022 16% · 2023 20% — 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
60% of A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
64% of A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND is better cushioned than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND?
- A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND (Missouri) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,630,065 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($1,069,200). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND have?
- IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $8,630,065 in grants to A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,069,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 80 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing