Iowa · Nonprofit
MISSION STARFISH HAITI
MISSION STARFISH HAITI (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,158 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,984). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $13k
- Net assets
- $323k
What Mission Starfish Haiti does
Mission
The primary mission is to support a school in Gonaives, Haiti. We pay teachers, security staff and kitchen staff and supply necessary materials for classes, hot meals every day and school uniforms. We have incrementally expanded our classes to include K1-K3, Elementary and High School (through grade 12). We have a nursing program for student and family health care and are using the school for some adult and community improvement classes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Mission Trips & Housing/Travel -- As a result of continuing political unrest, all of mission outreach visits from the US volunteers continue to be temporarily on hold.
$0 spent0% of program spendingBuilding and Projects: No major projects were undertaken during 2025 due to the continued unrest in Haiti. The costs included for this category include those related to shipments of various equipment and supplies from the US to the school.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOperations: Paying the staff (teachers, kitchen and security). We supply a hot meal everyday to students and try to make sufficient quantities to feed any neighbor who brings their own bowls. This is a critical effort in times of weather emergencies. We supply uniforms, study materials and other supplies for the students. We are finding used computers and other technical items for the students to learn repairs and understand those technologies. Our sewing program is in place for older girls and women to learn and use for small business efforts. We are teaching auto mechanics to men and older boys for self help. We have a nursing program to provide students with health care and this is open to the community for small fees. We have self help supplies for community housing improvement projects. We have a garden project to teach those skills and provide food for the school. We do pay our Directors salary and related expenses. Travel has been much lower due to COVID and political unrest. This category also includes administrative expenses such as wire transfer and bank fees.
$107,251 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $107,251.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $287k to $343k (+20%).
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.
100% of MISSION STARFISH HAITI’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (65% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $88 → $82.
3 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MISSION STARFISH HAITI’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
MISSION STARFISH HAITI leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MISSION STARFISH HAITI.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of MISSION STARFISH HAITI's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
MISSION STARFISH HAITI is better cushioned than half of the 17,277 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like MISSION STARFISH HAITI
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MISSION STARFISH HAITI: 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 MISSION STARFISH HAITI?
- MISSION STARFISH HAITI (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,158 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($6,984). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MISSION STARFISH HAITI have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $13,158 in grants to MISSION STARFISH HAITI, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MISSION STARFISH HAITI?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,984 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MISSION STARFISH HAITI find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing