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BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER

BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,339 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($15,700). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.6M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$97k
Net assets
$1.7M
8/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Brightside Animal Center does

Mission

Brightside Animal Center is a high-save shelter dedicated to providing sheltering, placement, and prevention services to reduce animal homelessness and unnecessary euthanasia.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Brightside Animal Center is dedicated to enriching the lives of displaced animals through quality care and selective adoption to responsible, loving homes. With our high-save mission, community education and support, and the efforts of our staff and volunteers, we were able to rehome successfully 98% of the animals in our care - one of the highest save rates of any shelter in oregon.

    $1,202,106 spent$1,482,306 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. The Brightside Animal Center thrift store is a large contributor to the organization's operatiing income. The public continues to support the mission of Brightside Animal Center through donations of funrniture, household items, and clothing that are processed by vounteers and then put back into circulation at very reasonable prices.

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,202,106.

02The 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 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($563k)2019 Revenue 110 ($1.1M) Expenses 112 ($1.2M) Net assets 202 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 121 ($1.2M) Expenses 88 ($952k) Net assets 249 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 168 ($1.7M) Expenses 106 ($1.1M) Net assets 345 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 120 ($1.2M) Expenses 127 ($1.4M) Net assets 314 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 124 ($1.2M) Expenses 144 ($1.6M) Net assets 259 ($1.5M)2024 Revenue 146 ($1.5M) Expenses 132 ($1.4M) Net assets 266 ($1.5M)2025 Revenue 163 ($1.6M) Expenses 131 ($1.4M) Net assets 306 ($1.7M)
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Revenue (163)Expenses (131)Net assets (306)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 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $2.0M (+27%).

$1.1M
$1.1M
$1.5M
$2.0M
$1.8M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.7M
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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.

2017
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

41% of BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,665 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$77k
’17
−$114k
’19
$267k
’20
$540k
’21
−$174k
’22
−$308k
’23
$39k
’24
$226k
’25
6.3
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.

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Listed77677769
Joined··+0+1+3+3+0+3
No longer listed··103310
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income fell $14k → $4k.

3 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER’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

BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

48% 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 BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER.

16%
largest funder
37%
top three
~13
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 80% · 2019 53% · 2020 41% · 2021 59% · 2022 51% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.

“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

21% of BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 11 states in all.

NH
WA
MT
MI
OR
PA
CA
DE
AZ
TN
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Oregon out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 813 animals nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve6.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 813 animals nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER

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 Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 10%Fundraising 5%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited 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

OR

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Questions and answers

Who funds BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER?
BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER (Oregon) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $97,339 to it, the largest being THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($15,700). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $97,339 in grants to BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER?
THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BRIGHTSIDE ANIMAL CENTER find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 23 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing