Tennessee · Nonprofit
STARS- STUDENTS TACKLING AUTISM-RELATED SYNDROMES
STARS- STUDENTS TACKLING AUTISM-RELATED SYNDROMES (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($66,500). 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 FY2025
- $185k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $77k
- Net assets
- $34k
What Stars- Students Tackling Autism-Related Syndromes does
Mission
Deliver support services to autistic college students
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
TEAM (Teaching Employment and Academic Mastery) program. Provided individualized mentoring, education planning and career development to support 18 autistic college students totaling 448 one on one coaching hours. The TEAM coach meets and guides the students on a weekly basis in order to monitor their progress with classes and assists the students with time management, organizational planning and self-advocacy skills.
$89,216 spent50% of program spendingSTARS Connects program. We served 6 college graduate students, totaling 139 one on one training hours this year by providing support services to help them develop their employment soft skills and prepare them for interviews, internships and employment. With an 85% unemployment/underemployment rate for autistic college graduates, this program will help to change the trajectory of this unacceptable statistic. In addition, we educate companies regarding neurodiversity in the workplace to help support autistic talent.
$35,686 spent20% of program spendingSTARS are Social program. Facilitated 21 peer-led social events with 448 people engaging in improving their social skills by having opportunities to play games, create craft projects, singing karaoke and playing outdoor games alongside their college peers. This program is the 'heart' of STARS; bringing together neurotypical college peers with autistic students on campus. Many friendships are created at these events and students also step out of their comfort zones, which is key to building confidence, and that is why this program is so important to our mission.
$53,530 spent30% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $178,432.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $23k to $40k (+77%).
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.
28% of STARS- STUDENTS TACKLING AUTISM-RELATED SYNDROMES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Kim Jameson
Executive Director
Board chair
Dr Bruce Keisling
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $10k → $16k.
2 of 2 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 STARS- STUDENTS TACKLING AUTISM-RELATED SYNDROMES’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- STUDENTS TACKLING AUTISM-RELATED SYNDROMES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 STARS- STUDENTS TACKLING AUTISM-RELATED SYNDROMES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 52% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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 STARS- STUDENTS TACKLING AUTISM-RELATED SYNDROMES'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. $77k 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
STARS- STUDENTS TACKLING AUTISM-RELATED SYNDROMES has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like STARS- STUDENTS TACKLING AUTISM-RELATED SYNDROMES
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 Tennessee
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds STARS- STUDENTS TACKLING AUTISM-RELATED SYNDROMES?
- STARS- STUDENTS TACKLING AUTISM-RELATED SYNDROMES (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,500 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC ($66,500). 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 STARS- STUDENTS TACKLING AUTISM-RELATED SYNDROMES have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $76,500 in grants to STARS- STUDENTS TACKLING AUTISM-RELATED SYNDROMES, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STARS- STUDENTS TACKLING AUTISM-RELATED SYNDROMES?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MEMPHIS INC is the largest funder on record, with $66,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STARS- STUDENTS TACKLING AUTISM-RELATED SYNDROMES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 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