Illinois · Nonprofit
BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR PHILLIPS
BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR PHILLIPS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being JOSEPH & BESSIE FEINBERG FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $0
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $0
What Brighter Futures for Phillips does
Mission
The mission of Brighter Futures for Phillips is to inspire bronzeville area high school students by funding the development of a stem department at wendell phillips high school; and creating new, fulfilling career paths for them.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization has raised funding for wendell phillips high school stem department
$10,235 spentof which $250,895 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,235.
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.
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 $261k to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR PHILLIPS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR PHILLIPS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR PHILLIPS
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR PHILLIPS: 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 FUTURES FOR PHILLIPS?
- BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR PHILLIPS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $100,000 to it, the largest being JOSEPH & BESSIE FEINBERG FOUNDATION ($100,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR PHILLIPS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $100,000 in grants to BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR PHILLIPS.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR PHILLIPS?
- JOSEPH & BESSIE FEINBERG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR PHILLIPS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2021–2023), and the filings of 1 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