Washington · Nonprofit
STARFISH MINISTRIES
STARFISH MINISTRIES (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,088 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($23,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $776k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $682k
What Starfish Ministries does
Mission
Provide humanitarian and spiritual services for orphans in haiti.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Education - the organization has nine elementary schools and two high schools in northwest haiti. This program provides classrooms, teachers, textbooks, uniform to students, a feeding program, and teacher training.
$320,358 spent41% of program spendingConstruction projects - the organization provides materials and labor to construct schools, churches, and orphanages as needed for their programs to help improve the overall quality of life for the people in haiti. In 2025, there is one ongoing construction project of the organization which is an elementary building located in tricotte.
$25,212 spent3% of program spendingOrphanage - the organization is involved in the funding of an orphanage and related programs which houses 42 children from age four to seventeen. The orphanage provides for the children's physical needs such as: food, shelter and clothing as well as their emotional and spritual needs to provide a nurturing and supportive environment.
$138,564 spent18% of program spendingOther programs.
$294,145 spent38% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $778,279.
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 2022 to 2023, from $717k to $585k (−18%).
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.
98% of STARFISH MINISTRIES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $20k → $17k.
4 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 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
STARFISH MINISTRIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 MINISTRIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 60% — 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
100% of STARFISH MINISTRIES'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $64k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 MINISTRIES is better cushioned than half of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like STARFISH 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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
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 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 STARFISH MINISTRIES?
- STARFISH MINISTRIES (Washington) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $64,088 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($23,700). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STARFISH MINISTRIES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $64,088 in grants to STARFISH MINISTRIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STARFISH MINISTRIES?
- NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $23,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STARFISH MINISTRIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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