Colorado · Nonprofit
MOON & STARS FOUNDATION
MOON & STARS FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,638 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($16,738). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $326k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $45k
- Net assets
- $95k
What Moon & Stars Foundation does
Mission
Moon and stars foundation provides opportunities for people of all ages to experience the joy and connectedness of african music.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The moon and stars foundation organizational activities include: presenting authentic, dynamic and educational performances of african (particularly zimbabwean) music through the continuation of foundation-based performance troupes: adult profession group kutandara and teen performance groups presenting performance groups at community and civic events for education of the community and support for charitable organizations educating people of all ages in marimba skill and repertoire building with the intention of fostering respect, connection, and appreciation for zimbabwean music along with other, related musical forms through lessons, classes and camps collaborating with other international, regional, and local performing groups to present this music and culture and other musics and cultures building community at events and in educational activities based around the above described music hosting an annual gala fundraiser to bring patrons together in support of this organization and its mission producing an annual concert series continuing to foster relationships with international groups and instructors operating with successful best practices in education and non profit…
$175,446 spent98% of program spendingZimbabwean visiting artists for fundraising projects and sponsoring music projects and artists in zimbabwe such as the friendship festival and sponsoring students at zimbabwean schools
$4,246 spent2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $179,692.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $23k to $95k (+321%).
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: 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
26% of MOON & STARS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Amy Stewart Mcintosh
Executive director
Board chair
Gavin Green
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $14k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 MOON & STARS FOUNDATION’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
MOON & STARS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 MOON & STARS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 74% · 2023 58% — 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.
Where its funders are
56% of MOON & STARS FOUNDATION'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. Of the $20k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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
MOON & STARS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MOON & STARS FOUNDATION
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOON & STARS FOUNDATION: 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 MOON & STARS FOUNDATION?
- MOON & STARS FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $44,638 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($16,738). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MOON & STARS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $44,638 in grants to MOON & STARS FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOON & STARS FOUNDATION?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $16,738 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOON & STARS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 6 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