Minnesota · Nonprofit
BRIGHTER DAYS FOUNDATION
BRIGHTER DAYS FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,077 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($10,000). 2 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
- $18k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $10k
- Net assets
- $47k
What Brighter Days Foundation does
Mission
Brighter Days Foundation's mission is to help chronically-ill children and their families living within the brainerd lakes area by surprising their families with meaningful gifts and/or opportunities that brighten their day. We do community wellness events and are offering scholarships to seniors interested in health care or medical research as their career of choice.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Provide gifts and unique experiences to children who suffer from severe or chronic illness. During 2024, the organization surprised four children with gifts.
$14,833 spentof which $14,833 as grants83% of program spendingProvide scholarships to high school seniors in the brainerd lakes area that are interested in health care or medical research for a career. During 2024, the organization gave one scholarship.
$3,070 spentof which $3,070 as grants17% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $17,903.
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 2017 to 2018, from $64k to $83k (+29%).
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.
99% of BRIGHTER DAYS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $23.
2 of 2 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.
From the IRS filings of BRIGHTER DAYS FOUNDATION’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 DAYS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% 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
100% 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 DAYS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 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
100% of BRIGHTER DAYS FOUNDATION'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. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
BRIGHTER DAYS FOUNDATION's revenue fell 46% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,898 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
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In Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
51%
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 DAYS FOUNDATION: 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 BRIGHTER DAYS FOUNDATION?
- BRIGHTER DAYS FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,077 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($10,000). 2 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 BRIGHTER DAYS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $10,077 in grants to BRIGHTER DAYS FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHTER DAYS FOUNDATION?
- COMMUNITYGIVING is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHTER DAYS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2 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