Michigan · Nonprofit
STARR COMMONWEALTH
STARR COMMONWEALTH (Michigan) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,836,520 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($2,329,603). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.5M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $90M
What Starr Commonwealth does
Mission
Starr Commonwealth's mission is to lead with courage to create positive experiences so that all children, families, and communities flourish.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Professional learningduring the 2024-2025 fiscal year, 3,053 unique professionals engaged with starr's professional learning programming, services, or resources. 2,049 professionals in the u.s. And globally received training on the topics of trauma, resilience, positive youth development, mindfulness, and indigenous wisdom. Through starr trainings and consultations, helping professionals learned effective tools for implementing trauma-informed, resilience-focused care, including ways to foster connections with the youth they serve. Starr certified 1,275 professionals as specialists, coaches, and/or trainers in trauma-informed, resilience-focused care. In a sample of helping professionals who participated in foundational specialist certification trainings, 97% (n = 708) rated the course as beneficial, very beneficial, or extremely beneficial and 96% (n = 734) agreed or strongly agreed that the training would benefit how they work with youth.
$2,413,699 spent$531,399 earned by the program42% of program spendingCommunity-basedduring the 2024-2025 fiscal year, 402 unique clients were served through direct service programs: 259 clients in our starr behavioral health services outpatient and holistic services program, 107 youth in our student resilience & empowerment center, and 35 clients in our f.o.c.u.s. Forward program (54 clients/youth received services from more than one program). Starr's behavioral health program offers individual and family therapy, academic support, group therapy, school-based behavioral health services, trauma assessments and interventions, occupational therapy, and case management. Clients attended 4,139 appointments, of which 172 were occupational therapy evaluations or sessions. The average client age was 15 years (range: 2 to 73 years old). Our behavioral health program provided 3,236 in-person and 903 telehealth (phone or video) sessions. Of behavioral health clients surveyed during the 2024-2025 fiscal year (n = 68), 94% indicated they would recommend the program to a friend in need of similar help, 94% indicated they would come back to the program if they were to seek help again, and 92% indicated that overall, they were satisfied with the services they…
$2,183,760 spentof which $9,918 as grants$520,958 earned by the program38% of program spendingSchool-based starr programming also includes the student resilience & empowerment center (srec). Srec is a county-wide, school-based behavioral health program that provides middle school students with access to social, emotional, and mental health supports that can lead to improved health and well-being. This immersive, half-day program builds on existing collaborations between starr and local schools, which together with the local ymca and county public mental health provider bring a behavioral health treatment model into the school day. During the 2024-2025 fiscal year, the srec program served a total of 107 unique students: 84 students during the 2024-2025 academic year, 33 students during the summer srec program, and 12 students during the start of the 2025-2026 academic year (with 25 students served during more than one program session). Students who completed the program reported increased independence and generosity, increased engagement in supportive relationships with adults and peers, and improved demonstration of mastery and goal-setting skills. From a sample of 68 students who completed the srec program, 96% were mostly or very satisfied with the amount of help they…
$1,118,100 spentof which $24,058 as grants$200,811 earned by the program20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,715,559.
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 2020 to 2021, from $74M to $88M (+19%).
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 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 4% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of STARR COMMONWEALTH’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Elizabeth Carey
President and chief executive officer
Board chair
Randy Neumann
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 18 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $2.5M → $638k.
10 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 STARR COMMONWEALTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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
STARR COMMONWEALTH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 STARR COMMONWEALTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 68% · 2019 83% · 2020 23% · 2021 28% · 2022 32% · 2023 78% — 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
42% of STARR COMMONWEALTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
93% of STARR COMMONWEALTH's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
STARR COMMONWEALTH is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding STARR COMMONWEALTH receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $17.3M on record — $17.3M federal, $68 state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$16.8M
- Department of Labor$500k
- INSTR SUPPORT SERVICES$68
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 STARR COMMONWEALTH
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
32%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 36 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STARR COMMONWEALTH: 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 STARR COMMONWEALTH?
- STARR COMMONWEALTH (Michigan) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,836,520 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($2,329,603). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STARR COMMONWEALTH have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $6,836,520 in grants to STARR COMMONWEALTH, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STARR COMMONWEALTH?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,329,603 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STARR COMMONWEALTH 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.
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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 41 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