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BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC

BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,694 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM R WHEELER & SANDRA L WHEELER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($96,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$2.9M
Revenue FY2024
8
Funders on record
$202k
Grants received
$1.1M
Net assets
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC has grown faster than half of the 3,969 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,969 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.5M) Net assets 100 ($237k)2018 Revenue 101 ($1.5M) Expenses 98 ($1.5M) Net assets 94 ($223k)2019 Revenue 122 ($1.8M) Expenses 121 ($1.8M) Net assets 68 ($161k)2020 Revenue 147 ($2.1M) Expenses 129 ($1.9M) Net assets 151 ($357k)2021 Revenue 202 ($2.9M) Expenses 167 ($2.5M) Net assets 327 ($773k)2022 Revenue 189 ($2.7M) Expenses 169 ($2.5M) Net assets 406 ($960k)2023 Revenue 200 ($2.9M) Expenses 188 ($2.8M) Net assets 436 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 199 ($2.9M) Expenses 184 ($2.8M) Net assets 485 ($1.1M)
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Revenue (199)Expenses (184)Net assets (485)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2021
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 32% · 2019 47% · 2020 61% · 2021 74% · 2022 72% · 2023 98% · 2024 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

72% of BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,227 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$58k
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$14k
18
$62k
19
$196k
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$416k
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$187k
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$71k
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$117k
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2.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $5k.

3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)15% 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 TOMORROWS 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 TOMORROWS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

48%
largest funder
70%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 65% · 2021 73% · 2022 52% · 2023 99%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.

How long its funders stay

33% of BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

79% of BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.

03Its place in the field

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. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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.

Government funding BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.8M on record.

Federal$5.8M
grants $5.8Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.7M
  • Department of Justice$2.1M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like BRIGHTER TOMORROWS 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 New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIGHTER TOMORROWS 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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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 TOMORROWS INC?
BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC (New York) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $201,694 to it, the largest being THE WILLIAM R WHEELER & SANDRA L WHEELER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($96,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $201,694 in grants to BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC?
THE WILLIAM R WHEELER & SANDRA L WHEELER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $96,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BRIGHTER TOMORROWS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 8funders 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