Ohio · Nonprofit
STARFISH ASSIGNMENT
STARFISH ASSIGNMENT (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,509 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $54k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $115k
- Net assets
- $129k
What Starfish Assignment does
Mission
Charitable
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Coats program: Starfish Assignment uses donations to purchase new coats to give away in less fortunate communities.
$0 spentof which $10,096 as grantsBooks & badges: Starfish Assignment purchases books which are given away in classrooms at events where police officers read to children and talk about being police.
$0 spentof which $22,133 as grantsCops & gobblers: Starfish Assignment provides thanksgiving meal bags and treat bags
$0 spentof which $5,433 as grantsOther programs include:blessing bags: holiday meals, treat bags, books and/or grocery gift cards -- $0bikes & badges: amount used to fix old bikes to give away to kids -- $0morale: usually doughnuts or meals delivered to police substations after a particularly difficult incident -- $199individual assignments- circumstances vary -- $9,432block party & events: network/connect events -- $0
$0 spentof which $9,631 as grants
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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. 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 2022 to 2023, from $71k to $157k (+122%).
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.
97% of STARFISH ASSIGNMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $10k → $28k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% 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 STARFISH ASSIGNMENT’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
STARFISH ASSIGNMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 STARFISH ASSIGNMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 66% · 2021 59% · 2022 93% · 2023 54% — 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.
Where its funders are
53% of STARFISH ASSIGNMENT'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 $54k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $61k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
STARFISH ASSIGNMENT's revenue fell 63% between 2021 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,277 public benefit nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like STARFISH ASSIGNMENT
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 Ohio
Nationally
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STARFISH ASSIGNMENT: 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 STARFISH ASSIGNMENT?
- STARFISH ASSIGNMENT (Ohio) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $114,509 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($50,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STARFISH ASSIGNMENT have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $114,509 in grants to STARFISH ASSIGNMENT, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STARFISH ASSIGNMENT?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STARFISH ASSIGNMENT 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.
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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 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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