California · Nonprofit
STAR ROCK MINISTRIES
STAR ROCK MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,275,668 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,101,750). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Star Rock Ministries does
Mission
Star Rock Ministries partners with donors and organizations to gift Christ-centered camp experiences that grow faith, relationships, character, and life skills to youth from under-resourced communities and the U.S. Military. Star Rock provides funds to these unaffiliated not-for-profit organizations across the country so that some of the youth and families they serve may attend camp experiences, whether conferences, day or residential camps.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Star Rock Ministries partnered with 7 urban and military non-profit organizations to make micro grants that provided 15 different Christian camp/outdoor experiences for 1,683 under-resourced children and youth.
$255,046 spentof which $244,910 as grants29% of program spendingSRM partnered with UYWI, an organization that networks groups of youth organizations and ministries in multiple urban regions across the United States, to organize 2 two-week Christian residential camping experiences in the Sierra mountains near Yosemite National Park. UYWI provided 263 campers from 9 different youth ministry organizations to send boys and girls from low-income and at-risk families to these "XLR8" camps. UYWI also planned the program that provided outdoor experiences that grow life skills, character, relationships, and faith for youth to thrive. The total of 263 campers included children, youth, and staff/volunteers.
$341,248 spentof which $295,635 as grants38% of program spendingStar Rock Ministries provided grants for the benefit of 4 exempt organizations to send 58 children from under-resourced and military families to join 4 different two-week Christian camping experiences. SRM calls these "woven" camp experiences because these campers join together with other campers from their area and age group whose families pay for them to attend regular camp sessions. 2 of the programmed experiences were for 34 boys and girls aged 8-16 located at a residential camp in the Sierra mountains near Yosemite, where they could grow in life skills, character, relationships, and faith. The other two programmed experiences were for 24 boys and girls aged 5-10 from military families to join in a southern California 2-week day-camp experience with counselors, outdoor activities, faith lessons, skills training, and character building.
$195,861 spentof which $175,590 as grants22% of program spendingSRM provided funds for the benefit of 1 school and 2 youth service organizations to send 87 boys and girls aged 5-10 from low-income and military families to attend their own SRM Day Camp, a one-week daytime Christian camping experience near their homes.
$97,839 spentof which $72,500 as grants11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $889,994.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $833k to $1.1M (+35%).
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.
94% of STAR ROCK MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Mark Garritson
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $197k → $639k.
6 of 16 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 ROCK MINISTRIES’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 ROCK MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 ROCK MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 58% · 2019 78% · 2020 54% · 2021 43% · 2022 33% · 2023 29% — 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
91% of STAR ROCK MINISTRIES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% 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
STAR ROCK MINISTRIES draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
STAR ROCK MINISTRIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like STAR ROCK MINISTRIES
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 California
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
36%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STAR ROCK MINISTRIES: 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 ROCK MINISTRIES?
- STAR ROCK MINISTRIES (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,275,668 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,101,750). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STAR ROCK MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $3,275,668 in grants to STAR ROCK MINISTRIES, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STAR ROCK MINISTRIES?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,101,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STAR ROCK MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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