Tennessee · Nonprofit
DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC
DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,248,123 to it, the largest being LEWIS FOUNDATION ($1,774,650). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $5.2M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Daystar Counseling Ministries Inc does
Mission
Daystar counseling ministries, inc. Seeks to offer the hope of christ to children, adolescents and families in need. Counseling services are offered on a sliding scale system, based on a family or individual's ability to pay. Through individual and group counseling, summer camp programs, leadership development, and parenting seminars, daystar is dedicated to serving the greater nashville area, as well as the community at large, with encouragement and support.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Daystar counseling ministries is a counseling agency that provides a broad range of services to both adults and young people, including private individual counseling, group counseling, special events including retreats, summer programs and activity nights and seminars and training for high school students, adults and the community.fiscal year 8/1/2024 - 7/31/2025 statistics of interest-number of clients served: 2,236 (last year: 2,123)-sliding scale clients: 376 includes 96 covenant clients =16.81% (last year: 367/2,123 = 17.29%)breakdown: 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 assessments: 545 465 351 331parent consults: 425 539 491 330individual sessions: 11,954 10,439 9,733 10,559campers: 248(22 cov) 196(26 cov) 182 176day campers: 43(3 cov) 36(5 cov) 43 0unbillable cancels: 3,362 3,714 3,207 3,147 -billable missed sessions: no shows/same day: 334 (last year 434)-intern sessions: 317; - 3 interns (last year 384 - 5 interns)-sessions canceled due to sickness or emergency: 345 (last year 335)groups:-groups scheduled fall 17, spring 16 -participants: 149-$101,77.00 billed income (last year $106,81.00)-$14,407.50 in sliding scale adjustments (last year $11,480) sliding scale…
$2,736,235 spentof which $1,000 as grants$1,956,836 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,736,235.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $2.9M to $4.3M (+48%).
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: 2021 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Jane Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $514k → $827k.
19 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
44% 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 DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 80% · 2019 79% · 2020 44% · 2021 25% · 2022 28% · 2023 13% — 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 DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
75% of DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Organizations like DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC
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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- North Observatory Property LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC: 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 DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC?
- DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,248,123 to it, the largest being LEWIS FOUNDATION ($1,774,650). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $5,248,123 in grants to DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC?
- LEWIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,774,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DAYSTAR COUNSELING MINISTRIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 62 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