Nebraska · Nonprofit
BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC
BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,845 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ($110,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $197k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $219k
- Net assets
- $-60183
What Brighten Our Future Early Learning Center Inc does
Mission
to provide affordable high-quality early childhood education and care regardless of economic or social status
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provided early childhood education and care for over 20 families for 240 days Wages to 6 employees to cover care
$150,465 spentof which $10,000 as grants68% of program spendingRent at 4100mo to allow us to use 3000sq ft to offer our inclusive learning environment
$46,600 spent21% of program spendingThe ability to provide necessary supplies to maintain daily operations which include breakfast lunch PM snack for up to 22 children for 240 care days Educational supplies classroom furniture PPE
$22,619 spent10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $219,684.
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.
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.
41% of BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Sonita Buddi
Executive Director Co president Treasurer
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $26 → $71k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE 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.
How concentrated its funding is
BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 86% — 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
100% of BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC's grant income comes from Nebraska funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38 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
BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 19,864 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
Organizations like BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE 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 Nebraska
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
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 BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE EARLY LEARNING CENTER 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 BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC?
- BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC (Nebraska) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $218,845 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ($110,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $218,845 in grants to BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS is the largest funder on record, with $110,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHTEN OUR FUTURE EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nebraska. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2021–2022), and the filings of 5 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