Ohio · Nonprofit
BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC
BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,374 to it, the largest being THE BABCOX FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($160,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $209k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $244k
- Net assets
- $140k
What Bright Star Books Inc does
Mission
Bright star books is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on increasing ownership of and access to books for limited-resource children in the greater akron region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provided over 45,000 books to more than 11,000 children in limited resource families in summit county. These included books given to summit county public health wic patients and books given through special events at akron public schools. Collected over 171,000 books to be distributed to children in the greater akron region to provide age appropriate books to children in need.
$204,264 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $204,264.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $94k to $167k (+78%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $22k → $30k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
34% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 55% · 2019 100% · 2020 78% · 2021 56% · 2022 61% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
99% of BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $83k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC?
- BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $244,374 to it, the largest being THE BABCOX FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($160,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $244,374 in grants to BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC?
- THE BABCOX FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $160,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHT STAR BOOKS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing