Indiana · Nonprofit
BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP
BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP (Indiana) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,049,951 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,230,022). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.2M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Brightlane Learning Corp does
Mission
Brightlane learning transforms the lives of students impacted by homelessness and housing instability with personalized tutoring and academic support while advocating for their families as they navigate the educational system
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community-based programs-brightlane learning partners with homeless shelters, supportive housing facilities and community centers to provide both tutoring for students and education case management for their families. Working with partner locations brightlane learning provides two to three nights of personalized tutoring support each week for students utilizing proven interventions and our own curriculum, which is aligned with state academic standards. Staff work to connect with a student's teacher to determine how to best support him or her. In addition to student services, staff meet with parents to determine goals that each family has for improving students' outcomes. These goals include increasing communication with the school, looking at school enrollment options, arranging transportation, determining additional student supports needed, pre-k enrollment, etc.
$464,976 spent28% of program spendingSchool-based programs-working in partnership with schools, brightlane learning provides tutoring and academic support to students experiencing homelessness and housing insecurity. Each student is supported through a personalized learning plan that focuses on attaining grade-level skills, utilizing proven interventions and our own curriculum, which is aligned with state academic standards. In addition to tutoring, brightlane learning staff support classrooms through push-in services and small group interventions. Brightlane learning also works in cooperation with parents to engage the family in the school community and ensure that educational barriers can be overcome.
$1,203,962 spent72% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,668,938.
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 2023 to 2024, from $3.7M to $9.2M (+146%).
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: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 9% · 2022 22% · 2023 27% · 2024 4% · 2025 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Chad Cassinelli
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 22 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $165k → $1.9M.
14 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 funders by total. 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
BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
40% 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 BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 44% · 2019 22% · 2020 44% · 2021 25% · 2022 33% · 2023 53% — growing more concentrated.
“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
44% of BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
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
97% of BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP: 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 BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP?
- BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP (Indiana) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,049,951 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($1,230,022). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $6,049,951 in grants to BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,230,022 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHTLANE LEARNING CORP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 78 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