Michigan · Nonprofit
STARRY NIGHT ART & NATURE CONSERVATORY
STARRY NIGHT ART & NATURE CONSERVATORY (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $39 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($39). 1 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 FY2018
- $1
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $39
- Net assets
- $4k
What Starry Night Art & Nature Conservatory does
Mission
Starry night is an organization formed to use healing arts and therapeutic music as an emotional therapy to help underserved children by helping to ensure the success of the gail allen lamphear endowment held and managed by central michigan university (cmu).
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization assisted central michigan university to operate the gail allen lamphear endowment (gale.) the endowment's purpose is to continue providing similar services of developing and providing programming emphasizing science, technology, engineering, art and math and utilize art and/or recreation as an emotional therapy for underserved youth.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $11k to $4k (−62%).
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.
0% of STARRY NIGHT ART & NATURE CONSERVATORY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $23 → $16.
1 of 1 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 STARRY NIGHT ART & NATURE CONSERVATORY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of STARRY NIGHT ART & NATURE CONSERVATORY'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. $39 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
STARRY NIGHT ART & NATURE CONSERVATORY's revenue fell 99% between 2017 and 2018.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,675 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2018
Organizations like STARRY NIGHT ART & NATURE CONSERVATORY
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.
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 STARRY NIGHT ART & NATURE CONSERVATORY: 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 STARRY NIGHT ART & NATURE CONSERVATORY?
- STARRY NIGHT ART & NATURE CONSERVATORY (Michigan) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $39 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($39). 1 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 STARRY NIGHT ART & NATURE CONSERVATORY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $39 in grants to STARRY NIGHT ART & NATURE CONSERVATORY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STARRY NIGHT ART & NATURE CONSERVATORY?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $39 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STARRY NIGHT ART & NATURE CONSERVATORY 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 1 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