California · Nonprofit
BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY
BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,958 to it, the largest being THE GREATER SUM INC ($37,792). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $64k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $153k
- Net assets
- $-4443
What Brain Education Strategies and Technology does
Mission
Develop and disseminate strategies designed to maximize the independence of persons with cognitive and physical disorders that cause impairments; such strategies include, but are not limited to: computer applications, publications, and instructional programs for professionals and for those with disorders.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Brain Education Strategies & Technology, Inc. (BEST) completed development and launched the StrategizeMyLife app for both Apple and Android platforms and is currently re-developing the PaceMyDay app.
$48,750 spent91% of program spendingBEST offered 24 free webinars serving over 400 participants and four free web-based workshops serving over 100 participants.
$3,818 spent7% of program spendingBEST created and launched an online community with approximately 200 initial members.
$750 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $53,318.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2023 to 2024, from $80k to $16k (−80%).
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.
95% of BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Michelle Ranae Wild
President/CEO
Board chair
Stacey Hunter-Schwartz
Chairman of the Board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $30k → $27k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY’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
BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
51% 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 BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 48% · 2022 70% · 2023 70% — 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
BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $47k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY has grown faster than half of the 6,360 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,360 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY: 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 BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY?
- BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $152,958 to it, the largest being THE GREATER SUM INC ($37,792). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $152,958 in grants to BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY?
- THE GREATER SUM INC is the largest funder on record, with $37,792 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRAIN EDUCATION STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 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