SHINING STARS FOUNDATION

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

N68

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 730

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• FAMILY SERVICES: WE PROVIDE SINGLE DAY EVENTS AND OVERNIGHT PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN BATTLING A LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS AND THEIR ENTIRE IMMEDIATE FAMILY. THIS INCLUDES TWO OVERNIGHT FAMILY CAMPS AND A HOLIDAY TOY DRIVE AND PARTY. DURING 2025, WE PROVIDED 48 DAYS OF FAMILY PROGRAMMING.

  Expenses $394,689

• CHILD SERVICES: WE PROVIDE TWO, OVERNIGHT ADVENTURE CAMPS JUST FOR THE CHILD BATTLING CANCER, THE ASPEN WINTER GAMES AND ASPEN SUMMER ADVENTURE. WE SERVE 70+ KIDS THROUGH THESE PROGRAMS EACH YEAR.

  Expenses $518,030

• YOUNG ADULT SERVICES: WE PROVIDE A MENTOR PROGRAM, SOCIAL OUTINGS, AND A RETREAT FOR YOUNG ADULTS AGES 18+ WHO ARE SURVIVORS OF PEDIATRIC CANCER AND STRUGGLING TO TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD. OVER 100 YOUNG ADULTS HAVE BEEN REACHED SINCE THE PROGRAM BEGAN IN 2016.

  Expenses $197,345

• AWARENESS AND EDUCATION SERVICES: BOOTHS AND PRESENTATIONS AT COMMUNITY EVENTS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT CHALLENGES FACED BY CHILDREN BATTLING CANCER. THIS INCLUDES WORKSHOPS PROVIDED FOR LOCAL SCHOOLS TO HELP STUDENTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.

  Expenses $123,340

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $1,388,490

  Expenses

  $1,438,227

  Contributions

  $1,094,307

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,605,026

  Expenses

  $1,263,727

  Contributions

  $1,249,156

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,281,477

  Expenses

  $806,227

  Contributions

  $1,016,806

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $650,995

  Expenses

  $616,419

  Contributions

  $634,783

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $917,665

  Expenses

  $546,360

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,275,551

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $655,798

  Expenses

  $672,973

  Assets (EOY)

  $919,457

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $958,319

  Expenses

  $772,016

  Assets (EOY)

  $871,994

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $785,849

  Expenses

  $713,766

  Assets (EOY)

  $813,559

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $711,485

  Expenses

  $741,279

  Assets (EOY)

  $389,444

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $752,129

  Expenses

  $669,908

  Assets (EOY)

  $452,195

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $562,616

  Expenses

  $603,099

  Assets (EOY)

  $392,404

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $507,129

  Expenses

  $532,880

  Assets (EOY)

  $306,369

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $441,098

  Assets (EOY)

  $344,617

• 2011 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $465,623

  Assets (EOY)

  $288,334

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $21,350

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $19,400

  2024 · HUMAN SERVICES

• COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION

  $18,115

  2023 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION

  $17,742

  2022 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $14,100

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• COLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION

  $13,156

  2024 · GENERAL PURPOSE

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $10,850

  2023 · HUMAN SERVICES

• CANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC

  $10,000

  2022 · Patient Care/Support Services

• GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC

  $10,000

  2023 · COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES

• CANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC

  $10,000

  2023 · Patient Care/Support Services

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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