About Bright Star Community Outreach
Our mission is to empower residents to share in the responsibility of building community through resource development and collaborative partnerships. We will accomplish our mission by developing innovative performance-based practices and programs to address the need for Violence Prevention, Community Engagement, Economic Development, Education, Healthy Children/Youth and Families.
Focus Areas
Violence PreventionTrauma CounselingBehavioral HealthCommunity DevelopmentEconomic DevelopmentWorkforce DevelopmentEducationYouth ServicesHomelessness / Transitional HousingHealth & WellnessFinancial Literacy
Who They Fund
community residents
About Bright Star Community Outreach
Bright Star Community Outreach Corp’s giving is anchored by repeated support for Chicago youth-serving organizations, with $45,000 grants to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro and Champ appearing among its largest recent awards. The pattern points to a local funder that concentrates on community residents, children, youth, and families through programs tied to violence prevention, community engagement, education, and economic development. Recent grants also show support for behavioral health, trauma counseling, workforce development, homelessness / transitional housing, and financial literacy. The foundation’s grant list is heavily relationship-based rather than broad and diffuse. In 2024, it backed Youth Guidance at $31,800 and Alternatives Inc at $30,000, while 2023 awards included Chicago Youth Programs Inc at $21,771 and Spark at $8,000. Awards cluster around service delivery and community programs in Chicago, matching the organization’s stated emphasis on collaborative partnerships and performance-based practices. The grant pattern suggests a funder that works through a small set of familiar local nonprofits rather than a wide national portfolio.
What Bright Star Community Outreach Funds
Youth-focused work is central to the foundation’s recent grantmaking. Bright Star Community Outreach Corp gave $31,800 to Youth Guidance in 2024 and $21,200 to the same organization in 2023, indicating repeated support for a single youth-serving provider. It also backed Chicago Youth Programs Inc with $21,771 in 2023 and $10,855 in 2024. Violence prevention and community safety are also part of the portfolio. The foundation awarded $45,000 to Champ in 2024 and $30,000 in 2023, while Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro received $45,000 in 2024 and $30,000 in 2023. In the community development and service-delivery space, Alternatives Inc received $30,000 in both 2024 and 2023, showing continued support for an organization with an ongoing role in the local service network.
How Bright Star Community Outreach Gives
Grant sizes cluster in a mid-sized range: the p25 is $18,000, the median is $25,886, and the p75 is $31,350. The recent record also includes several $45,000 awards, which sit above that typical band. The pattern is repeat-based rather than one-off: multiple recipients appear in more than one year, including Youth Guidance, Alternatives Inc, Champ, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro, Ladies of Virtue Nfp, Chicago Youth Programs Inc, and New Community Outreach. The foundation does not fund individuals and does not make program-related investments. Its support is local and programmatic, aligned with collaborative partnerships and outcome-driven funding.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$402K
Total Assets
$2.1M
Total Revenue
$5.7M
Total Expenses
$6.1M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $18K and $31K, with a median of $26K.
25th Percentile
$18K
Median
$26K
75th Percentile
$31K
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
CHRISTOPHER T HARRIS
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