New York · Nonprofit
Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc
Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc (New York) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,394,872 to it, the largest being TEACH A MAN TO FISH FOUNDATION ($485,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $2.4M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc does
Mission
The Orphaned Starfish Foundation creates lasting change in the lives of orphans throughout Latin America and the world by helping them develop vocational skills. We believe enabling them with these skills allows them to permanently overcome the cycle of poverty and abuse.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provide orphans, victims of abuse, and at-risk youth with technology training through funding the construction and operation of vocational training facilities, including furnishings, equipment, teacher salaries, and job placement services. (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Trinidad, Ukraine, Uraguay, Venezuela)
$699,453 spentof which $699,453 as grants59% of program spendingProvide orphans, victims of abuse, and at-risk youth with scholarships for higher education. (Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay)
$213,064 spentof which $213,064 as grants$184,156 earned by the program18% of program spendingProgram development, travel, and payroll.
$201,751 spentof which $201,751 as grants17% of program spendingProvide orphans, victims of abuse, and at-risk youth with technology training through funding the construction and operation of vocational training facilities, including furnishings, equipment, teacher salaries, job placement services, scholarships for higher education. (America, American Samoa, & Puero Rico)
$72,154 spentof which $72,154 as grants6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,186,422.
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 $3.0M to $0 (−100%).
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.
123% of Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Andrew B Stein
Chairman, Pres
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $638k → $167k.
19 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
55% 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 Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 47% · 2019 39% · 2020 32% · 2021 48% · 2022 36% · 2023 15% — 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
30% of Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
55% of Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.3M 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
Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27k on record.
- Department of State$27k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Orphaned Starfish Foundation 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% 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 Orphaned Starfish Foundation 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 Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc?
- Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc (New York) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,394,872 to it, the largest being TEACH A MAN TO FISH FOUNDATION ($485,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $2,394,872 in grants to Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc?
- TEACH A MAN TO FISH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $485,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Orphaned Starfish Foundation Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 52 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