Stars Family Services
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263880004
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Wheaton, IL, USA
- Phone
- 6302060243
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Group Homes
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $761,890
- Expenses
- $882,034
- Assets
- $1,757,031
- Liabilities
- $10,874
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Anthony DiLeonardi (President)
- Sharon Coutryer (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Nancy Singer (Secretary): $127,613 total reported compensation
- Sharon Coutryer (Executive Director): $85,000 total reported compensation
- Wil Triggs (Director): $82,037 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
STARS Family Services is organized to minister to the physical, emotional, social and spiritual needs of individuals with developmental disabilities and their families in Christs name.
What it reported doing in 2025
Residential Program - Residential homes are for those individuals with developmental disabilities. This is a supportive living arrangement. Program Service/Objectives: SFS seeks to provide residents with the tools to develop life skills needed for independent or semi-independent living. The Life Skills which are focused on are; 1. Cooking (identifying cooking implements, basic cooking skills, using small and large appliances) 2. Cleaning (identifying and using cleaning appliances and products, keeping bedroom clean, keeping common areas clean) 3. Grocery Shopping (following a grocery list, appropriate store behavior, unload groceries at home and appropriately put away) 4. Interpersonal Relationships (Appropriately socializing with housemates, staff, and new acquaintances/visitors) 5. Personal Responsibilities (Time management, using public transportation, money management, being prepared for outings) 6. Personal Care (hygiene, safety, emergencies, knowledge of personal info) Clients Serviced: All residents of the SFS home. Days of Care Provided: 24 hours per day, 7 days a week, currently excluding a number of major holidays when residents spend time with family or friends. Program Service Measurements: 1. Each residents progress is assessed using the Resident Independence Assessment form. 2. Based on the above assessment, each resident is provided with an Individualized Life Skills Plan. The Individualized LSP provides residents with individualized goals and objectives to move them closer to independence in all areas of life skills development. Staff works individually with residents to ensure that all individualized goals are being addressed.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 67% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 85.5%; rating input score 85
- Program expense ratio: 73.7%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $16.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -15.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.99; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.2%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 85.5% of revenue deployed · 73.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $650K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $128K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.