Texas · Nonprofit
STARLIGHT OUTREACH AND RESCUE
STARLIGHT OUTREACH AND RESCUE (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,863 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,200). 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 FY2024
- $71k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $55k
- Net assets
- $0
What Starlight Outreach and Rescue does
Mission
Starlight Outreach and Rescue (S.O.A.R.) is a 501(c)3 non-profit, foster-based animal rescue serving Brazoria, Galveston, and Harris counties in Texas. Starlight was established in 2017 to support the efforts of local area shelters to provide a better quality of life for stray and abandoned animals, medical attention beyond the scope/capabilities of the facilities, and fostering and rescue services for animals with special needs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Construction of kennel building - inside dog runs, outside dog runs, finishing the interior floor, walls, and ceiling, light fixtures, plumbing, air conditioning unit, backyard fencing
$26,024 spent37% of program spendingAnimal supplies for foster animals - food for dogs and cats age 4 weeks through adult, formula and bottle feeding supplies for infant kittens, litter, OTC medications such as calorie supplements, probiotics, flea medication, etc, bedding, toys, pet carriers, wire kennels, cage bowls.
$10,740 spent15% of program spendingVeterinary care - spay/neuter services, care and medication for sick and injured animals, heartworm treatments for dogs, surgeries for severe injuries, preventative care and services for all intakes, owner outreach for community members who cannot afford vet care
$34,216 spent48% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $70,980.
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 2023 to 2024, from $123k to $0 (−100%).
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.
100% of STARLIGHT OUTREACH AND RESCUE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $321 → $31k.
4 of 5 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 STARLIGHT OUTREACH AND RESCUE’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
STARLIGHT OUTREACH AND RESCUE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 STARLIGHT OUTREACH AND RESCUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 87% · 2023 48% — 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 STARLIGHT OUTREACH AND RESCUE'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 $100 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k 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
STARLIGHT OUTREACH AND RESCUE's revenue fell 24% between 2021 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,996 animals nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like STARLIGHT OUTREACH AND RESCUE
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 Texas
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 STARLIGHT OUTREACH AND RESCUE: 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 STARLIGHT OUTREACH AND RESCUE?
- STARLIGHT OUTREACH AND RESCUE (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $54,863 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($20,200). 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 STARLIGHT OUTREACH AND RESCUE have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $54,863 in grants to STARLIGHT OUTREACH AND RESCUE, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STARLIGHT OUTREACH AND RESCUE?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $20,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STARLIGHT OUTREACH AND RESCUE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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