Ohio · Nonprofit
STAR HOUSE
STAR HOUSE (Ohio) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,922,007 to it, the largest being THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($3,387,998). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
STAR HOUSE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Community Shelter Boardlocalportfolio match
- L Brands Foundationshared funderslocal
- Thomas C&Sandra S Sullivan Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 63% · 2019 55% · 2020 45% · 2021 57% · 2022 61% · 2023 37% · 2024 69% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of STAR HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $326k → $1.4M.
14 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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 HOUSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 38% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
78% 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 HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 69% · 2019 66% · 2020 40% · 2021 51% · 2022 38% · 2023 52% — 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
46% of STAR HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
95% of STAR HOUSE's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 60 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Community Shelter Boardlocalportfolio matchOH · funds 28 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- L Brands Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 126 organizations that share your funders · funds 170 organizations near you
- Thomas C&Sandra S Sullivan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ridgecliff Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Children's Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Corporation for Supportive Housingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indiana Affordable Housing Council Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Housing Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thatcher Family Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rclco Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry C Moores Foundationshared funderslocalOH · backs 113 organizations that share your funders · funds 174 organizations near you
- Osteopathic Heritage Foundationshared fundersOH · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding STAR HOUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $760k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$760k
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 STAR HOUSE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 STAR HOUSE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds STAR HOUSE?
- STAR HOUSE (Ohio) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,922,007 to it, the largest being THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($3,387,998). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STAR HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $8,922,007 in grants to STAR HOUSE, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STAR HOUSE?
- THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,387,998 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STAR HOUSE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 60funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing