Colorado · Nonprofit
STARFALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
STARFALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35 to it, the largest being ZHU AND YANG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($35). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $35
- Net assets
- $26M
What Starfall Education Foundation does
Mission
To provide free and low-cost innovative academic educational resources whereby children have fun learning through exploration, gain self-confidence, and develop an understanding and compassion for diversity and the environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The foundation, through its website starfall.com, offers free and low-cost interactive experiences whereby children can successfully learn through exploration. It continues the tradition of its predecessor, a social enterprise founded in 2002, as a place where children have fun learning to read. Currently, it includes the core subjects of language arts and mathematics for pre-k, kindergarten, and elementary school grade levels. It teaches through positive reinforcement to help children become confident and intrinsically motivated. The foundation produces and distributes the following educational services and materials for students, parents, teachers and schools: interactive games, videos, movies, e-books, audio books, educational songs, downloadable books, lesson plans, classroom curricula, printed books, practice books, electronic media and teaching tools. These are primarily distributed through the starfall.com website. Many of starfall's digital activities are also available on mobile apps. Starfall offers low-cost membership which expands its free content to include additional games, e-books, movies and songs. Benefits of annual membership include preferred and unlimited…
$5,251,698 spentof which $185,000 as grants$4,540,918 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,251,698.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2017 to 2018, from $30M to $23M (−23%).
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.
24% of STARFALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Stephen Schutz Phd
Chairman, CEO, founder
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of STARFALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
STARFALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
STARFALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35 to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding STARFALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16k on record.
- DE$15k
- NJ$210
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 STARFALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Starfall Education LLC · disregarded
- Pancilllc · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STARFALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: 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 STARFALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- STARFALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION (Colorado) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $35 to it, the largest being ZHU AND YANG FAMILY FOUNDATION ($35). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STARFALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $35 in grants to STARFALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of STARFALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION?
- ZHU AND YANG FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STARFALL EDUCATION FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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