Michigan · Nonprofit
PROJECT STARBURST
PROJECT STARBURST (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,124 to it, the largest being MECOSTA - OSCEOLA UNITED WAY INC ($168,366). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $184k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $347k
- Net assets
- $33k
What Project Starburst does
Mission
Project Starburst is a small human service agency that provides emergency food, household items, infant needs and other services to low-income families in mecosta & osceola counties.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Provide groceries to families in mecosta and osceola counties.
$157,291 spent100% of program spendingProvide groceries, supportive services, access to dental cleaning and x-rays, vision care, rent, heat, utilities, work clothes, fuel to drive to work or medical appointments. Provide staff to assist clients with household needs, advocating with other agencies for individuals and families, social services.
$498 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $157,789.
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 $96k to $48k (−50%).
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 14% · 2018 10% · 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 11% · 2023 12% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of PROJECT STARBURST’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $54k → $49k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 PROJECT STARBURST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 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
PROJECT STARBURST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
99% 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 PROJECT STARBURST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 57% · 2019 56% · 2020 51% · 2021 52% · 2022 61% · 2023 43% — 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
100% of PROJECT STARBURST's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $123k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PROJECT STARBURST's revenue grew 37% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,356 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PROJECT STARBURST
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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 PROJECT STARBURST: 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 PROJECT STARBURST?
- PROJECT STARBURST (Michigan) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,124 to it, the largest being MECOSTA - OSCEOLA UNITED WAY INC ($168,366). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT STARBURST have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $347,124 in grants to PROJECT STARBURST, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT STARBURST?
- MECOSTA - OSCEOLA UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $168,366 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT STARBURST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 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