Project Starfish Jobs for Disability Foundation America Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
462831108
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Lowell, MA, USA
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Employment Procurement Assistance

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,122
Expenses
$20,204
Assets
$77,346

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Soumita Acharya (President)

People named in this filing

  • Subhashish Acharya (Director)
  • Soumita Acharya (President)
  • Sunish Gupta (Treasurer)

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

To help individuals with disabilities mostly visually impaired transform their lives to obtain a better career. We have also expanded the same model for veterans who have exceptional capability but with no professional opportunities. We have developed a contemporary training model that helps train individuals using technology and and connect them with employers. Our model has been highlighted in the boston globe chicago tribune etc.

What it reported doing in 2025

Project Starfish has achieved a breakthrough in building a model that creates employment by leveraging the skills people with disabilities have. The three main activities we have is: 1. Create internships for students to build innovative accessible technology - this is a continued activity and our Focus is AI based models that can create income streams. 2. Meet with Employers and help them understand case studies of success and definitions of how skills of people with disabilities can enhance a job function or save costs and this is an ongoing activity for years that targets CEOs and Business Owners. This is equally applicable to returning veterans. 3. Meet with technologists to make AI models more accessible to help people with disabilities. We are now researching into how AI can create jobs for visually impaired people and we are conducting superior research on these elements.

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

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -852.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.83; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -26.5% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2025
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.