California · Nonprofit
Rising Stars Foundation
Rising Stars Foundation (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,500 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDBAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $542k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $4k
- Net assets
- $-18358
What Rising Stars Foundation does
Mission
providing enrichment and educational programs for underserved school districts and students from low income families
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided hands-on STEAM, coding, and wellness instruction to over 4,200 students in 150+ underserved schools. Through 850+ Future Makers and RiseUP Stars programs, we equipped students from low-income families with essential technical and soft skills to bridge the opportunity gap and prepare them for real-world success.
$515,203 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $515,203.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 $80k to $68k (−14%).
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.
4% of Rising Stars Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2018: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $1k → $3k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Rising Stars Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
100% of Rising Stars Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
Rising Stars Foundation's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Rising 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Rising 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 Rising Stars Foundation?
- Rising Stars Foundation (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,500 to it, the largest being THE SCHMIDBAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($3,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Rising Stars Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $3,500 in grants to Rising Stars Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Rising Stars Foundation?
- THE SCHMIDBAUER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rising Stars Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 2 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