Brightstar Community Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 822177572
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Rochester, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5856902994
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,824
- Expenses
- $106,344
- Assets
- $77,835
- Liabilities
- $69,440
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Stacy Poliseo (President)
- Jan August (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Stacy Poliseo (President)
- Sue Kirby (Executive Dir.)
- Carla Chiappetta (Director)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide outreach services to sex workers and operate 24-month residential program for survivors of human sex trafficking.
What it reported doing in 2024
Provide basic needs for female victims of human sex trafficking, outreach, and referrals to social services. Manage/ operate residential program for female survivors of human sex trafficking.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 70.8%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 49.8%; rating input score 50
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -42.1%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.73; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.89; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 62.9%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 32.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 70.8% of revenue deployed · 49.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $53K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 6/100.