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SERVICE STARS INC

SERVICE STARS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,700 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,450). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$143k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$14k
Net assets
$72k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Service Stars Inc does

Mission

Educational after school and summer camp program that teaches kids about community issues and provides opportunities for them to give back through hands on community service projects.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Our summer camp program enrolled 130 students who completed daily service projects and trips over the course of two weeks. We served 15 nonprofits which benefitted over 2000 low income individuals and families.

    $32,883 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $32,883.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($38k) Expenses 100 ($41k) Net assets -11 ($-2408)2022 Revenue 203 ($77k) Expenses 136 ($55k) Net assets 100 ($23k)2023 Revenue 522 ($199k) Expenses 411 ($167k) Net assets 243 ($55k)2024 Revenue 579 ($221k) Expenses 557 ($226k) Net assets 302 ($69k)2025 Revenue 374 ($143k) Expenses 308 ($125k) Net assets 319 ($72k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (374)Expenses (308)Net assets (319)

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 $69k to $136k (+99%).

$723
$23k
$55k
$69k
$136k
20212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

−$2k
’21
$22k
’22
$32k
’23
−$5k
’24
$18k
’25
13
months of
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.

Chief executive

kelly comings

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20242025
Listed31
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $3k.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 SERVICE STARS 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

SERVICE STARS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

54% 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 SERVICE STARS INC.

54%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2023 91% — 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

54% of SERVICE STARS 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 $6k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

MA
NJ

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SERVICE STARS 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 Massachusetts

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

33% of spending goes to programs.

Program 33%Management 67%Fundraising 0%

Governance

0
board members
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SERVICE STARS 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 SERVICE STARS INC?
SERVICE STARS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,700 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,450). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SERVICE STARS INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $13,700 in grants to SERVICE STARS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SERVICE STARS INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SERVICE STARS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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