Starlite Shores Family Camp

Analysis

Starlite Shores Family Camp is a registered charity in United States, based in Byron Center, MI. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Starlite Shores Family Camp reported income of $349k and spending of $163k, leaving 53% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $264k to $349k (+32%), an average of +7.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 49%. Over the whole period it spent 34% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Starlite Shores Family Camp sits at the 49th percentile: it is larger than about 49% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 64th percentile, and in the 64th percentile within MI. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Christian Recovery Houses Inc ($349k), Sugar Ray Leonard Foundation ($349k) and Trio Therapy Partners ($349k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 89% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $22k (13% of expenses). It paid $2,170 in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $1.6m against liabilities of $439, net assets of $1.6m. It reported 1 employees.