Astera Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 992726217
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- East Brunswick, NJ, USA
- Phone
- 7329912499
- Rating
- 55
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Foundations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $149,867
- Expenses
- $21,798
- Assets
- $143,066
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Maqsood Amjad (President)
- Michael Nissenblatt (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Maqsood Amjad (President)
- Michael Nissenblatt (Vice President)
- Neshama Marcus (Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At Astera Foundation, we are committed to providing crucial financial support to patients affected by cancer diagnosis, helping pay vendors on the patient's behalf for essential non-medical and household expenses during their cancer journey
What it reported doing in 2025
Financial Assistance is the only program we are currently running. This program provides crucial financial support to patients, helping pay vendors on the patient's behalf for essential non-medical and household expenses during their cancer journey
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 22
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 6.8%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: 46.5%; rating input score 46
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 85.5%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.56; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 6.8% of revenue deployed · 46.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $10K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.