Star Rock Ministries
San Clemente, CA · EIN 20-8594584. Reported 50 grants totalling $2,374,329 to 23 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Star Rock Ministries, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for youth development (NTEE O12).
- How spread out its giving is. 23 distinct organizations, with 30% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 75% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $28,550. Half of what it reported fell between $16,949 and $50,893; the smallest was $5,001 and the largest $282,250. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hispanic Ministry Center Inc | Santa Ana, CA | $701,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Escondido Union School District School Facilities Corporation | Escondido, CA | $426,100 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Wooden Floor for Youth Movement | Santa Ana, CA | $184,055 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Passion La | Los Angeles, CA | $135,012 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Light & Life Free Methodist Church | Long Beach, CA | $120,179 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Unidos South Oc Inc | San Juan Capo, CA | $104,191 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Brave Global | Long Beach, CA | $99,017 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Capistrano Unified School District School Facilities Corporation | San Juan Capo, CA | $76,755 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Kidworks Community Development Corporation | Santa Ana, CA | $73,840 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Creer Communidad Y Familia | San Juan Capo, CA | $61,094 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Fountain of Praise Children Rock Coalition for Stronger Boys Camp | Houston, TX | $60,620 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Summer Institute Inc | Houston, TX | $47,625 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Solidarity | Placentia, CA | $40,678 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Campus Crusade for Christ Inc | Orlando, FL | $39,385 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Creer Communidad Y Familia | San Juan Capistrano, CA | $36,814 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City to City Socal | Long Beach, CA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Project Hope Alliance | Costa Mesa, CA | $25,939 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Twentynine Palms Elementary School Morongo Unified School District | Twentynine Palms, CA | $22,010 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Peoples Self-Help Housing Corporation | Sn Luis Obisp, CA | $20,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rescue a Generation Inc | Sn Bernrdno, CA | $20,001 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Icna Relief USA Programs Inc | New Hyde Park, NY | $17,264 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Spectrum Ministries Inc | San Diego, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Letting Everyone Achieve Dreams | Houston, TX | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
17 of 23 (74%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Urban Youth Workers Institute
Funding for under-resourced youth to attend camps, conferences, and religious training events. - San Onofre Elementary School Fallbrook Union Elementary School District
Funding to assist military family children to attend outdoor education field trips and summer camps. - San Onofre Elementary Fallbrook Union Elementary School District
Funding to assist 25 military family children to attend outdoor education field trips, and for 38 children to enjoy mountain summer camps. - Urban Youth Workers Institute (uywi)
UYWI forms regional networks of inner-city youth ministries across the U.S.. Star Rock teams with UYWI in two ways. First, this $85,000 direct grant was given to them so that they could provide and manage various day and residential camp experiences for 1,800 youth in their networks. Second, SRM provided other sub-grants to UYWI-directed network groups, detailed in other lines of this Schedule, to provide funds to send youth to experience camps in their areas, where they received opportunities to grow in life skills, character, relationships, and faith. - Passion La Passion Socal
Passion LA is a network of urban youth ministries in Los Angeles under the oversight of UYWI that helps teenagers facing inner city challenges. SRM teams with them to provide both winter and summer camp experiences for their youth. In 2024, SRM granted funds for 130 youth to participate in a 3-day snow-filled winter camp in the mountains near L.A. In addition, SRM provided grants for 48 of their network's youth to join with four other youth groups in southern California to actively participate in a 6-day residential summer camp in the mountains near Yosemite. Both camp programs provided outdoor experiences that grow life skills, character, relationships, and faith for youth to thrive. - Light and Life Christian Fellowship
SRM granted to a southern California church, Light and Life, funds to send 120 children to two different camp experiences. One grant allowed 50 children to join with three other youth groups in southern California to actively participate in a 6-day "XLR8" residential summer camp in the mountains near Yosemite. The other grant allowed 70 youth to attend a winter weekend camp in the southern California mountains. Both camp programs under the oversight of UYWI provide outdoor experiences that grow life skills, character, relationships, and faith for youth to thrive.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 of 23 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 4 | $418,290 | $69,977 |
| 2022 | 10 | $566,310 | $20,045 |
| 2023 | 16 | $609,146 | $33,311 |
| 2024 | 20 | $780,583 | $26,734 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
93% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $28,550 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Star Rock Ministries's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 22 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 996, San Clemente, CA, 92674.
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