Illinois · Nonprofit
Stars Family Services
Stars Family Services (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $748,893 to it, the largest being NKC FAMILY FOUNDATION ($359,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $762k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $749k
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Stars Family Services does
Mission
STARS Family Services is organized to minister to the physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families in Christs name.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Residential Program - Residential homes are for those individuals with developmental disabilities. This is a supportive living arrangement. Program Service/Objectives: SFS seeks to provide residents with the tools to develop life skills needed for independent or semi-independent living. The Life Skills which are focused on are; 1. Cooking (identifying cooking implements, basic cooking skills, using small and large appliances) 2. Cleaning (identifying and using cleaning appliances and products, keeping bedroom clean, keeping common areas clean) 3. Grocery Shopping (following a grocery list, appropriate store behavior, unload groceries at home and appropriately put away) 4. Interpersonal Relationships (Appropriately socializing with housemates, staff, and new acquaintances/visitors) 5. Personal Responsibilities (Time management, using public transportation, money management, being prepared for outings) 6. Personal Care (hygiene, safety, emergencies, knowledge of personal info) Clients Serviced: All residents of the SFS home. Days of Care Provided: 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, currently excluding a number of major holidays when residents spend time with family or friends. Program…
$539,997 spent$228,586 earned by the program83% of program spendingJob Partner Program - Provide Job Partner Coaches at the College Church, Wheaton Resale Shops to come alongside those individuals with developmental disabilities. The Partner Coach will assess and design goals for each Partner. The goals are designed to move Job Partners closer to independence as they complete tasks in a resale shop environment. All Participants in the Partner Program will perform their tasks according to these values. Excellence: We will perform tasks to the best of our ability and use the gifts God has given us. Service: We will serve others as an expression of our love for Jesus, since Jesus came to serve. This includes serving customers, employees, volunteers and fellow Partners. Love: Everything we do will be done out of love and have the best interest of the other person. Progress: We desire to grow to reach our full potential and be all that God intends us to be. Respect: We will be respectful of the STARS Partner Coaches, customers, employees, volunteers, and other partners. We will follow the instructions of the Coaches and Location Managers and speak respectfully at all times.
$69,169 spent11% of program spendingProgramming - Art Studio, Move & Groove, and Day Services Art Studio - STARS participate in our art studio where they create original artwork. This artwork may be utilitzed for fundraising events, such as our art auction. Move & Grove - The coordinator of Move & Groove leads the STARS in excercise. This program does not have a revenue element currently. Day Program - Every weekday STARS gather for activities run by one of the staff. Occasionally a STAR that is not a resident participates for a fee.
$40,862 spent$7,043 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $650,028.
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 2024 to 2025, from $2.0M to $1.8M (−14%).
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: 2020 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of Stars Family Services’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Sharon Coutryer
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $4k → $103k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 Stars Family Services’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
Stars Family Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
39% 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 Stars Family Services.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 62% · 2019 53% · 2020 44% · 2021 44% · 2022 57% · 2023 44% — 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
33% of Stars Family Services's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
100% of Stars Family Services's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $148k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Stars Family Services's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Stars Family Services
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- College Church in Wheaton · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Stars Family Services: 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 Stars Family Services?
- Stars Family Services (Illinois) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $748,893 to it, the largest being NKC FAMILY FOUNDATION ($359,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Stars Family Services have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $748,893 in grants to Stars Family Services, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Stars Family Services?
- NKC FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $359,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Stars Family Services find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 13 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