Brightstar Ministries Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 994947198
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Hoopeston, IL, USA
- Phone
- 2172607635
- Rating
- 36
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $125
- Expenses
- $0
- Assets
- $250
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Adam Wood (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Adam Wood (Executive Director)
- Carrie Stimson (Director, Finance and Counseling)
- Lisa Palinski (Director, Curriculum)
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
Brightstar Ministries, Inc. creates Christ-centered music, books, and creative resources that support mental, emotional, spiritual, and neurodivergent well-being.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization completed a name change to better reflect an expanded charitable mission beyond its original focus. While continuing its work supporting individuals with autism and neurodivergence, the organization broadened its programs to include the development and distribution of music, books, training materials, and other creative resources designed to promote mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being for individuals, families, and faith communities. The updated name more accurately represents the organization's growing scope of activities, outreach, and educational efforts, allowing it to serve a wider population while maintaining its commitment to inclusion, accessibility, and public benefit.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no program spending for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 0
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 8
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
- 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: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 66.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.