Missouri · Nonprofit
MS BRIGHT SPOTS OF HOPE
MS BRIGHT SPOTS OF HOPE (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $278 to it, the largest being EDWARD JONES FOUNDATION ($250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MS BRIGHT SPOTS OF HOPE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,769 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,769 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commissionlocal
- Hollerbachs Has Heartportfolio match
- Brewer Family Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5 → $273.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 MS BRIGHT SPOTS OF HOPE’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
MS BRIGHT SPOTS OF HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 92% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MS BRIGHT SPOTS OF HOPE's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
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.
- Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development CommissionlocalMO · funds 134 organizations near you
- Hollerbachs Has Heartportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brewer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Numotion Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Role Model Movement Inc (NFP)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Permobil Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Ability Centerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 610 Stompers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Klick Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deeper Life Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jason Mraz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Multiple Sclerosis Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like MS BRIGHT SPOTS OF HOPE
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 Missouri
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 MS BRIGHT SPOTS OF HOPE: 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.
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 MS BRIGHT SPOTS OF HOPE?
- MS BRIGHT SPOTS OF HOPE (Missouri) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $278 to it, the largest being EDWARD JONES FOUNDATION ($250). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MS BRIGHT SPOTS OF HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $278 in grants to MS BRIGHT SPOTS OF HOPE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MS BRIGHT SPOTS OF HOPE?
- EDWARD JONES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MS BRIGHT SPOTS OF HOPE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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