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STAR FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS INCORPORATED

STAR FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS INCORPORATED (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,200 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$680k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$49k
Net assets
$138k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 53%
01What it does

What Star for Early Childhood Educators Incorporated does

Mission

To increase the number of early childhood educators in programs with shared principle of making quality care and education a priority for all children. Staff coaching, training, advocacy and resources for the early childhood educators in the St. Louis region. Star services over 425 and

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Our purpose is to increase the number of Early Childhood Educators in programs with the shared principle of making quality early care and education a priority for all children. Staff coaching, training, advocacy, and resources for the early childhood educators in the St. Louis region. STAR Served 425 students and trained 80 Educators.

    $377,394 spentof which $481,335 as grants$7,772 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $377,394.

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 ($93k) Expenses 100 ($90k) Net assets 100 ($9k)2022 Revenue 247 ($229k) Expenses 226 ($204k) Net assets 375 ($34k)2023 Revenue 532 ($492k) Expenses 447 ($403k) Net assets 1351 ($123k)2024 Revenue 735 ($680k) Expenses 724 ($653k) Net assets 1516 ($138k)
2021202220232024
Revenue (735)Expenses (724)Net assets (1516)

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 $34k to $132k (+285%).

$9k
$34k
$132k
$150k
2021202220232024
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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

$2k
’21
$25k
’22
$89k
’23
$28k
’24
2.8
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.

202220232024
Listed787
Joined·+2+0
No longer listed·11
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS INCORPORATED’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

STAR FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS INCORPORATED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

100% 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 FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS INCORPORATED.

51%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

51% of STAR FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS INCORPORATED'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 $24k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Missouri funders.

MO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k 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 STAR FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS INCORPORATED

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 Missouri

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
0%
independent
✓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

MO

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STAR FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS INCORPORATED: 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 STAR FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS INCORPORATED?
STAR FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS INCORPORATED (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $49,200 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($25,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does STAR FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS INCORPORATED have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $49,200 in grants to STAR FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS INCORPORATED.
Who is the largest funder of STAR FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS INCORPORATED?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $25,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STAR FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS INCORPORATED find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2021–2024), 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