Massachusetts · Nonprofit
BRIGHT FUTURES EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC
BRIGHT FUTURES EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $30k
- Net assets
- $646k
What Bright Futures Early Learning Center Inc does
Mission
To operate a preshool program to provide educational instruction to preschool-age children and to provide inter-gernational activities for seniors.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Early educational instruction- there are four different age groups served:infant, toddler, preschool, and school-age. Infant: provides a loving, nurturing environment that helps promote a feeling of belonging and promotes development towards the child's full potential. Toddler:provides a wide range of stimulating experiences that respond to and expand a child's natural inquisitiveness. Preschool: prepares children socially and academically for kindergarten, while supporting and encoraging the development of independence, responsibility and confidence skills that areessential to a child's ongoing success. School-age: provides a safe and social environment when school is not in session that supports and encourages academic development essential to a child's continuing education. At each age group, we partner with mason wright senior living, inc., a related 501(c)(3) public charity. To bring intergenerational opportunities that engage seniors in the children's learning and experiences to the benefit of all involved.total capacity of the center is 103 children; in 2023, an average of 85 children were educated weekly.
$1,141,870 spent$1,166,639 earned by the program81% of program spendingAuxiliary services - transportation to and from the center and daily meals provided to children. The center provided 12,428 transportation days, with an average of 53 students partaking, or 62% of our enrollment. Total breakfast, lunch and snack meals served during the year were 43,293 with all children, in attendance, participating or an average of 184 meals/day.
$275,761 spent$298,541 earned by the program19% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,417,631.
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 2023 to 2024, from $571k to $758k (+33%).
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 14% · 2021 15% · 2022 21% · 2023 19% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of BRIGHT FUTURES EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Alan Popp
President & CEO
Board chair
John Morse
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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: $31k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mason Wright Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money BRIGHT FUTURES EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of BRIGHT FUTURES EARLY LEARNING CENTER 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BRIGHT FUTURES EARLY LEARNING CENTER 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 FUTURES EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BRIGHT FUTURES EARLY LEARNING CENTER 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
90%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Mason Wright Foundation Inc · exempt
- Mason Wright Senior Living Inc · exempt
- Colony Care Senior Living Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC?
- BRIGHT FUTURES EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $30,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ($30,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRIGHT FUTURES EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $30,000 in grants to BRIGHT FUTURES EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHT FUTURES EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHT FUTURES EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 1 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