Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY
NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $540,892 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ($98,684). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $345k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $541k
- Net assets
- $325k
What North Star of Chester County does
Mission
Financial assistance, social services & mentoring for low-income single working parents and their families, to prevent homelessness and guide them towards self-sufficiency.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided program services and housing assistance, including social services, rental assistance, food/gas gift cards, additional supportive services (access to office pantry,financial aid for children's programming, financial aid for education) for 22 different families, including 32 children.the rental assistance resulted in 5,730 nights of homelessness prevention and family stability.
$244,309 spentof which $72,267 as grants96% of program spendingCase management and initial program services for 6 applicant families including 22 children, and responses to over 401 inquiries.
$7,696 spent3% of program spendingNorth Star of Chester County operates an in-office pantry for our families. 1 volunteer maintains the pantry, checking inventory and refilling it as needed, logging 18 hours of service.
$3,346 spent1% of program spendingNorth star staffed an informational table at the 12th annual chester county single mothers' conference. The conference was held in april and included a resource fair, workshops related to finance, self-care, home buying, mentorship, work-life balance, legal aid, and childcare and other resources for moms in need. North star supported the children of our program participants, distributing donated school supplies, christmas gifts and books to 32 children. North star also paid an average of 360 each for 25 children to attend summer camp or participate in enrichment activities. North star provided financial spport for three individuals to pursue higher education, or achieve additional job certifications, in the form of registration fees, tuition and purchasing textbooks.
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $255,351.
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 2022 to 2023, from $238k to $307k (+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 8% · 2019 11% · 2020 9% · 2021 8% · 2022 9% · 2023 7% · 2024 13% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $44k → $117k.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY’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
NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
64% 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 NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 64% · 2019 46% · 2020 46% · 2021 23% · 2022 30% · 2023 26% — 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
50% of NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
72% of NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $158k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 850 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY: 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 NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY?
- NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $540,892 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY INC ($98,684). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $540,892 in grants to NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY?
- UNITED WAY OF CHESTER COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $98,684 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH STAR OF CHESTER COUNTY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 21 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