Illinois · Nonprofit
PROJECT STARFISH CORPORATION
PROJECT STARFISH CORPORATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,100 to it, the largest being CHILDREN ACROSS BORDERS INC ($6,100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $39k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $6k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Project Starfish Corporation does
Mission
Project Starfish Corporation's purpose is to provide short term budgeting and financial assistance (recurring grants) to individuals and families while they are working on a plan to become debt-free or to cover unexpected expenses.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Grant request applications were accepted two times during the year. Board met and voted to provide grants to 4 new families during the year.
$0 spentof which $31,400 as grants
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 $25k to $12k (−53%).
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 PROJECT STARFISH CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of PROJECT STARFISH CORPORATION’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.
Where its funders are
PROJECT STARFISH CORPORATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 STARFISH CORPORATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,230 food & nutrition nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like PROJECT STARFISH CORPORATION
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PROJECT STARFISH CORPORATION?
- PROJECT STARFISH CORPORATION (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $6,100 to it, the largest being CHILDREN ACROSS BORDERS INC ($6,100). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT STARFISH CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $6,100 in grants to PROJECT STARFISH CORPORATION.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT STARFISH CORPORATION?
- CHILDREN ACROSS BORDERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $6,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT STARFISH CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 1 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