Illinois · Nonprofit
Brighter Behavior Choices Inc
Brighter Behavior Choices Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,757 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF RECOVERY CAFE ($67,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Brighter Behavior Choices Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,812 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,812 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- All Chicago Making Homelessness Historyshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- United Way - McCormick Partnership for Strong Neighborhoods Incshared funders
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.
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 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Brighter Behavior Choices Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $18k → $2k.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Brighter Behavior Choices 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
Brighter Behavior Choices Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 Brighter Behavior Choices Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of Brighter Behavior Choices Inc's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- All Chicago Making Homelessness Historyshared funderslocalportfolio matchIL · backs 8 organizations that share your funders · funds 107 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchIL · backs 9 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way - McCormick Partnership for Strong Neighborhoods Incshared fundersIL · backs 5 organizations that share your funders
- Mibor Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rjs Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Horizons Unlimited Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Oneohio Recovery Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Spaulding Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violenceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Brighter Behavior Choices Inc
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
88% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Brighter Behavior Choices 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Brighter Behavior Choices Inc?
- Brighter Behavior Choices Inc (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $141,757 to it, the largest being FRIENDS OF RECOVERY CAFE ($67,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Brighter Behavior Choices Inc have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $141,757 in grants to Brighter Behavior Choices Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Brighter Behavior Choices Inc?
- FRIENDS OF RECOVERY CAFE is the largest funder on record, with $67,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Brighter Behavior Choices 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing