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STAR FISH INC

STAR FISH INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,208 to it, the largest being PLAINFIELD FOUNDATION ($22,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$126k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$40k
Net assets
$361k
8/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

What Star Fish Inc does

Mission

To provide emergency food assistance to families of plainfield who find themselves in need.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Food gift cards and food given to needy families.

    $55,560 spent
    90% of program spending
  2. Rental of equipment needed to transport the food to local food banks and indiviuals.

    $2,206 spent
    4% of program spending
  3. Repairs to the food pantry building.

    $4,000 spent
    6% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $61,766.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($178k) Expenses 100 ($93k) Net assets 100 ($133k)2021 Revenue 73 ($130k) Expenses 70 ($65k) Net assets 149 ($197k)2022 Revenue 62 ($110k) Expenses 68 ($63k) Net assets 184 ($244k)2023 Revenue 76 ($135k) Expenses 93 ($86k) Net assets 221 ($293k)2024 Revenue 55 ($98k) Expenses 89 ($83k) Net assets 232 ($308k)2025 Revenue 71 ($126k) Expenses 79 ($74k) Net assets 272 ($361k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (71)Expenses (79)Net assets (272)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $134k to $197k (+48%).

$134k
$197k
$244k
$293k
$308k
$361k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

93% of STAR FISH INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,373 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$84k
’20
$65k
’21
$47k
’22
$49k
’23
$15k
’24
$52k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $797 → $685.

3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 STAR FISH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 11 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

STAR FISH INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

33% 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 STAR FISH INC.

55%
largest funder
92%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 88% · 2021 77% · 2022 94% · 2023 58% — 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

50% of STAR FISH INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 73% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

STAR FISH INC draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 3 states in all.

PA
NJ
DE

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

STAR FISH INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.

Operating margin42% · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,936 food & nutrition nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like STAR FISH 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 New Jersey

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds STAR FISH INC?
STAR FISH INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $40,208 to it, the largest being PLAINFIELD FOUNDATION ($22,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STAR FISH INC have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $40,208 in grants to STAR FISH INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STAR FISH INC?
PLAINFIELD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $22,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STAR FISH INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 11 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