Illinois · Nonprofit
BRIGHT FACES INC
BRIGHT FACES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,454,692 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($774,850). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $108k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $20k
What Bright Faces Inc does
Mission
The purpose of bright faces, inc. (f/k/a stop cleft - international alliance) is to develop and implement a strategic approach to increasing the number of persons with cleft lips and/or cleft palates who are treated surgically, and the efficiency with which they are treated, through the performance, directly or indirectly, of surgical procedures, including provision of related pre-operative care, where the persons treated lack sufficient financial resources and/or proximate access to established resources to treat persons with cleft lips and/or cleft palates.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The purpose of bright faces, inc. (f/k/a stop cleft - international alliance) is to develop and implement a strategic approach to increasing the number of persons with cleft lips and/or cleft palates who are treated surgically, and the efficiency with which they are treated, through the performance, directly or indirectly, of surgical procedures, including provision of related pre-operative care, where the persons treated lack sufficient financial resources and/or proximate access to established resources to treat persons with cleft lips and/or cleft palates.
$101,609 spentof which $56,250 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $101,609.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2018 to 2019, from $373k to $130k (−65%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 4% · 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BRIGHT FACES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
James Fox
CEO
Board chair
Carl W Treleaven
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $155k → $89k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 77% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Bright Faces Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BRIGHT FACES INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BRIGHT FACES 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 FACES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 FACES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 39% · 2019 76% · 2020 59% · 2021 39% · 2022 54% · 2023 72% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
57% of BRIGHT FACES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
77% of BRIGHT FACES INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $340k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 FACES INC's revenue fell 77% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BRIGHT FACES 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 22 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIGHT FACES 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 FACES INC?
- BRIGHT FACES INC (Illinois) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,454,692 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($774,850). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 77% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRIGHT FACES INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,454,692 in grants to BRIGHT FACES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHT FACES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $774,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHT FACES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 8 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