California · Nonprofit
BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH
BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,648,826 to it, the largest being THE ALAN K AND CLEDITH M JENNINGS FOUNDATION ($496,500). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.5M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Bright Futures for Youth does
Mission
To ignite the potential of youth today for vibrant communities tomorrow. We offer positive experiences, environments and relationships and a foundation for youth to grow, learn and develop into happy, self-sufficient young adults.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Bright Futures for Youth has three core programs: The Friendship Club, a long-term program that provides year-round academic, social and emotional support for girls in sixth grade through high school. NEO (New Events & Opportunities), a fun, safe and supervised place after school and during the summer for all genders ages 11-25 with a Drop-in Youth Center. SAFE (Stability, Access, Foundation, Empowerment) helps 12- to 25-year-old youth experiencing homelessness, providing basic needs, access to housing and community services and an onsite Drop-in Center.
$1,169,616 spent63% of program spendingOther BFFY Programs serve youth organization-wide. This includes our Kitchen and Nutrition program that provides free meals to youth in all programs and nutrition and cooking classes, and other smaller food-related programs/services throughout the year. Our Cinderella Project, which provides free formal wear for youth for school dances and special occasions. Our comprehensive programs include after-school meetings, summer camps and dozens of enrichment workshops, mentors, tutors, mental health and health care referrals and paths to college and career/trade school. An integral part of our program is the interaction between young people and adult role models. BFFY programs are provided at no cost to youth and their families.
$624,885 spent34% of program spendingFriday Night Live/Club Live (FNL/CL) is an alcohol, drug and tobacco prevention program funded by Nevada County that uses positive youth development activities and lessons serving students at their school sites in grades 4-8, with efforts underway to involve 9-12th graders. We run seven chapters at six schools where youth remain in their cohorts as they advance through school. At these meetings, we also educate youth about BFFY after-school programs and encourage participation to make friends, have fun, explore their passions, get life-skills training and learn to make healthy choices.
$68,698 spent4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,863,199.
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 $777k to $2.3M (+197%).
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: 2021 10% · 2023 37% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $146k → $612k.
10 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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: $20k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest The Mike & Evelyn Walsh Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH raised.
From the IRS filings of BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 funders by total. 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 FUTURES FOR YOUTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
65% 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 FUTURES FOR YOUTH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 66% · 2019 41% · 2020 31% · 2021 31% · 2022 46% · 2023 25% — 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.
How long its funders stay
47% of BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
52% of BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 FUTURES FOR YOUTH runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH
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.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH: 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 FUTURES FOR YOUTH?
- BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH (California) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,648,826 to it, the largest being THE ALAN K AND CLEDITH M JENNINGS FOUNDATION ($496,500). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,648,826 in grants to BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH?
- THE ALAN K AND CLEDITH M JENNINGS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $496,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 37 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing