Suncoast Stars Community
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 923199058
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Bradenton, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9412827425
- Rating
- 90
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Adult Day Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $176,419
- Expenses
- $145,480
- Assets
- $141,376
- Liabilities
- $2,513
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- Julie Audet (Director, Secretary)
- Mary Lou Fenton (Director, Vice Chairman)
- Robert Fenton (Director, Chairman, 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
Our Work & Enrichment program offers adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities a variety of enrichment classes including dance, music, fitness and nutrition, book club, Bible study, sign language, crafts and more. We engage our clients cognitively, physically, socially, and spiritually - the whole person. We are also developing specially modified business enterprises where we slow down the pace, modify tasks, and provide staff and volunteer support to enable these adults to enjoy meaningful, productive activities.
What it reported doing in 2025
When individuals with Down Syndrome, Autism, or other special needs finish high school, with rare exception, they do not go on to college or go on to pursue careers. Most will never drive a car or live in their own apartment. These adults often face a future of isolation, boredom, and depression. Suncoast Stars Community (SSC) is dismantling the status quo for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) by helping them unlock their potential and experience abundant living. We recognize that adults with IDD thrive best in a structured environment with regular routines, stimulating activities, and peer support. SSC was formed in 2023 to address this important need in our community. In 2025, SSC served 22 individuals in our Work & Enrichment program, an increase of eight participants versus 2024. We also expanded programming to three days per week, following our launch in 2023 where we operated only one day per week. Additionally, to support our current clients and prepare for further growth, we hired an additional program teacher in 2025. We engaged 21 volunteers, an increase of 10 compared to 2023; we expanded our first business enterprise - a greeting card studio where are clients produce high quality greeting cards which we sell to local businesses and a local church.
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. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.5%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 94.5%; rating input score 95
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: 17.5%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.97; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.2%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 116.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.1% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 26.8% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.5% of revenue deployed · 94.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $138K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.