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BRIGHTHOUSE SCHOLAR CONNECTIONS INC

BRIGHTHOUSE SCHOLAR CONNECTIONS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,500 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$245k
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$21k
Net assets
$353k
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%
01What it does

What Brighthouse Scholar Connections Inc does

Mission

Scholars seeks to expand educational opportunities for students who are members of historically underrepresented or disadvantaged populations.scholars will grant scholarships for full-time enrollment or attendance at a university, college, trade school or vocational school or other institution of higher education as described in code section 170(b)(1)(a)(ii) (an "educational institution") to help underrepresented or disadvantaged students overcome historic challenges which have impeded their enrollment in, success at, and timely graduation from, an educational institution. It is expected that scholar's charitable activities, including its scholarship program, will be funded with donations raised through the corporation's fundraising efforts.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Scholarship program:granted 21 scholarships which enable students to expand their educational journey.

    $154,553 spentof which $120,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $154,553.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($258k) Expenses 100 ($23k) Net assets 100 ($235k)2023 Revenue 89 ($230k) Expenses 682 ($155k) Net assets 131 ($308k)2024 Revenue 95 ($245k) Expenses 876 ($200k) Net assets 150 ($353k)
202220232024
Revenue (95)Expenses (876)Net assets (150)Peer revenue range

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 $258k to $366k (+42%).

$258k
$366k
$402k
202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of BRIGHTHOUSE SCHOLAR CONNECTIONS INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$235k
’22
$75k
’23
$45k
’24
24
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Eric Steigerwalt

Director, chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

202220232024
Listed789
Joined·+1+1
No longer listed·00
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 BRIGHTHOUSE SCHOLAR CONNECTIONS 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

BRIGHTHOUSE SCHOLAR CONNECTIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

88% 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 BRIGHTHOUSE SCHOLAR CONNECTIONS INC.

49%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

80% of BRIGHTHOUSE SCHOLAR CONNECTIONS INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

MO
NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BRIGHTHOUSE SCHOLAR CONNECTIONS INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin18% · above the median
Months of reserve24.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

77% of spending goes to programs.

Program 77%Management 23%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
33%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 5 states

NY
NJ
NC
SC
FL

Part of a family of 25 related entities

  • Brighthouse Financial Foundation · exempt
  • Brighthouse Holdings LLC · partnership
  • Brighthouse Investment Advisers LLC · partnership
  • Brighthouse Securities LLC · partnership
  • Brighthouse Services LLC · partnership

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIGHTHOUSE SCHOLAR CONNECTIONS 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 BRIGHTHOUSE SCHOLAR CONNECTIONS INC?
BRIGHTHOUSE SCHOLAR CONNECTIONS INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,500 to it, the largest being SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BRIGHTHOUSE SCHOLAR CONNECTIONS INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $20,500 in grants to BRIGHTHOUSE SCHOLAR CONNECTIONS INC.
Who is the largest funder of BRIGHTHOUSE SCHOLAR CONNECTIONS INC?
SOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 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 BRIGHTHOUSE SCHOLAR CONNECTIONS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 3 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