Louisiana · Nonprofit
BRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
BRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF (Louisiana) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,433,522 to it, the largest being EYE EAR NOSE & THROAT FOUNDATION ($263,092). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $797k
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Bright School for the Deaf does
Mission
The bright school is a non-profit corporation organized under the laws of the state of louisiana. Bright school's mission is to improve the speech, language, and auditory skills of children who are deaf, hard of hearing, or language delayed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Pre-school for hearing impaired children: students - 24;adult - 40 (parent counseling); total served - 64
$588,002 spent$680,302 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $588,002.
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.
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 $1.7M to $2.8M (+68%).
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: 2024 15% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Linda Frantz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $17k → $336k.
5 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 BRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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 SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
33% 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 SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 78% · 2019 36% · 2020 18% · 2021 25% · 2022 28% · 2023 21% — 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
61% of BRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
83% of BRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $307k 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.
Organizations like BRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: 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 SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF?
- BRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF (Louisiana) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,433,522 to it, the largest being EYE EAR NOSE & THROAT FOUNDATION ($263,092). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $1,433,522 in grants to BRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF?
- EYE EAR NOSE & THROAT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $263,092 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHT SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 43 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