Michigan · Nonprofit
STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC
STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC (Michigan) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,447,094 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($2,736,500). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 29 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,286 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
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.
- Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundationshared funders
- First Steps Kentportfolio match
- Health Net of West Michiganportfolio match
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.
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: 2017 86% · 2018 88% · 2019 89% · 2020 91% · 2021 93% · 2022 89% · 2023 93% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $1.8M → $1.9M.
14 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 26% 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 FAMILY SERVICES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 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
STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
60% 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 FAMILY SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 36% · 2019 30% · 2020 17% · 2021 22% · 2022 31% · 2023 31% — 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
40% of STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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 STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 84 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- First Steps Kentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Health Net of West Michiganportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parents as Teachers National Center Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kiwanis Club of Ann Arbor Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Early Childhood Resource Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parrot Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Start Earlyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Matilda R Wilson Fundshared fundersMI · backs 27 organizations that share your funders
- Molinello Family Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- Deroy Testamentary Foundationshared fundersMI · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- McGregor Fundshared funderslocalMI · backs 88 organizations that share your funders · funds 97 organizations near you
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 STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $241.0M on record — $241.0M federal, $5k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$241.0M
- Other Grants$5k
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 STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 FAMILY SERVICES INC: 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 STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC?
- STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC (Michigan) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,447,094 to it, the largest being THE KRESGE FOUNDATION ($2,736,500). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $15,447,094 in grants to STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC?
- THE KRESGE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,736,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STARFISH FAMILY SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 84funders 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