Illinois · Nonprofit
SERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC
SERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,536,217 to it, the largest being FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION ($636,862). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $45M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Sertoma Star Services Inc does
Mission
Provides pre-vocational training, workshop activities and other rehabilitative services to developmentally disabled individuals and those living with mental illness to empower them to achieve personal success by providing choice and opportunities. Day services include developmental training and senior services and offers supportive and community employment. Also offered are 24 hour residential care and intermiitent residential care services and community mental health services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community living: provides day to day support to consumers living in a home that is located in the community. Sertoma star services has thirty-two residential homes and two apartment complexes with the capacity to support 185 consumers.
$21,763,672 spent$21,488,633 earned by the program55% of program spendingCommunity day services: provides support to increase opportunities to learn new skills, develop relationships, and participate in community activities. These support services include but are not limited to individualized training, case management, local community based classes and participation in special olympics. Senior services offers older individuals a unique alternative to traditional day program services by providing opportunities to work and participate in community activities and socialize with their peers. This program allows seniors to remain active, healthy, and contributing members of society. It also specializes in meeting the needs of people experiencing physical, mental, and emotional challenges later in life.
$6,979,072 spent$10,147,666 earned by the program18% of program spendingCommunity mental health and counseling (cmhc) offers the following services to support individuals to reduce mental health symptoms while learning coping skills to adapt and thrive in different systems including family, employment, education and other community settings: individual therapy, group therapy, psycho-social rehabilitation day program, youth services community support team, telepsychiatry, case management along with offering community education. Cmhc provides support to over 500 individuals each year along with providing mental health training to over 2,000 individuals annually.
$5,938,453 spentof which $209,389 as grants$6,569,859 earned by the program15% of program spendingIndiana services: provides support services in an individual's home or community to increase independence and support living a meaningful life based on the individuals wants and needs.
$3,691,955 spent$2,290,725 earned by the program9% of program spendingIntermittent residential care services: in home intermittent services provides services to individuals residing in family supported homes in the community. The emphasis is to provide support services to families to ensure that the individual remains in a family setting. Staff works with individuals for a maximum of 15 hours per week on individualized goals and objectives such as socialization, community outings, self-care, skill enhancement, economic self-sufficiency, and medication administration.
$606,318 spent$715,852 earned by the program2% of program spendingSpecial recreation department: provides assessment, planning, development and facilitates therapeutic recreation programs. All programs are designed to meet the varied needs of persons with intellectual disabilities.
$488,084 spent$463,364 earned by the program1% of program spendingCommunity employment: provides support to individuals looking for community integrated employment. This support starts with discovery to identify career interests and then works with individuals to learn the skills necessary to obtain community employment based on their interests. This support also includes on the job coaching to support an individual to maintain employment in the community.
$384,923 spent$216,645 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $39,852,477.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2023 to 2024, from $20M to $51M (+156%).
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: 2018 15% · 2019 7% · 2020 9% · 2021 12% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 4% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of SERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Robert Straz
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $69k → $233k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 SERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC’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
SERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
46% 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 SERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 84% · 2019 64% · 2020 49% · 2021 47% · 2022 47% · 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.
How long its funders stay
56% of SERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
91% of SERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $182k 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
SERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 274 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 274 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $548k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$548k
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 SERTOMA STAR SERVICES 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- New Star Levitt LLC · disregarded
- Kimball Court Apartments LLC · disregarded
- Union Avenue Residences LLC · disregarded
- Southstar Housing Inc · exempt
- Southstar Deborah House · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC?
- SERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,536,217 to it, the largest being FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION ($636,862). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,536,217 in grants to SERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC?
- FIRST LOOK FOR CHARITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $636,862 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SERTOMA STAR SERVICES INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 16 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