Ohio · Nonprofit
STELLA MARIS INC
STELLA MARIS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,387,653 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($785,368). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $14M
What Stella Maris Inc does
Mission
To provide hope, transform lives, and strengthen communities through a continuum of addiction and mental health services accessible to all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Medical detoxification is the first step to medically stabilize a patient in active withdrawal from alcohol and other chemicals. 20 sub acute beds under the direction of physicians, 24 hour nursing staff, counselors, and a dietician provide inpatient care including a history and physical, biopsychosocial assessment, medications, laboratory and an individual treatment plan including discharge planning to the next level of care for ongoing treatment for recovery from addiction. The population is primarily medically indigent and/orhomeless men and women 18 years or older with no access to hospital based care.
$3,021,136 spent$1,979,375 earned by the program33% of program spendingSupportive housing is provided for males and females in separate facilities. Residents participate in treatment and wraparound support services. The overall focus of supportive housing is to help clients build a sober network in a therapeutic community setting. The program connects clients with ongoing recovery support to facilitate reentry into the community and to enhance an individual's ability to be successful in life-long recovery. Prior to leaving the program, clients are referred to safe, stable housing within the community.
$2,519,471 spent$473,966 earned by the program28% of program spendingOutpatient treatment is provided for individuals not requiring residential support. Outpatient programs include mental health and substance abuse treatment, psychiatry services, and trauma therapy. Extensive wraparound services are offered on the stella maris campus to enhance program impact and outcomes, including family therapy, case management, peer support, medication assisted treatment, 12-step recovery meetings, and workforce training.
$2,475,855 spent$3,018,931 earned by the program27% of program spendingResidential treatment houses 12 males on the stella maris campus. The unit is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. While in residential treatment, clients receive holistic, trauma-informed care from psychiatrists, nursing staff, counselors, case managers, and peer supporters. This includes daily therapeutic group counseling, psycho-educational groups, case management, medication management, psychiatric services, primary care services, peer support services, and linkage to further treatment following completion of the program.
$1,092,076 spent$1,710,023 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,108,538.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $6.5M to $12M (+88%).
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: 2018 30% · 2019 34% · 2020 28% · 2021 48% · 2022 43% · 2023 33% · 2024 28% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
47% of STELLA MARIS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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
Daniel Lettenberger-Klein
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $109k → $401k.
8 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 STELLA MARIS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
STELLA MARIS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 STELLA MARIS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 52% · 2019 25% · 2020 22% · 2021 23% · 2022 38% · 2023 25% — 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
45% of STELLA MARIS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
68% of STELLA MARIS INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
STELLA MARIS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding STELLA MARIS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$1.7M
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 STELLA MARIS INC
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STELLA MARIS INC: 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 STELLA MARIS INC?
- STELLA MARIS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,387,653 to it, the largest being THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION ($785,368). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STELLA MARIS INC have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $5,387,653 in grants to STELLA MARIS INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STELLA MARIS INC?
- THE CLEVELAND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $785,368 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STELLA MARIS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 56 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing