Missouri · Nonprofit
OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS
OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,734 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($31,268). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $112k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,680 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Trio Foundation of St Louisshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commissionlocalportfolio match
- Regional Business Councillocalportfolio match
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.
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 61% · 2018 55% · 2019 63% · 2020 71% · 2021 67% · 2022 70% · 2023 81% · 2024 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $11k → $9k.
3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS’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
OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 49% · 2022 74% · 2023 67% — 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
43% of OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
70% of OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Trio Foundation of St Louisshared funderslocalportfolio matchMO · backs 84 organizations that share your funders · funds 92 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commissionlocalportfolio matchMO · funds 156 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Regional Business Councillocalportfolio matchMO · funds 72 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Norman J Stupp Foundationshared funderslocalMO · backs 73 organizations that share your funders · funds 51 organizations near you
- Keep America Beautiful Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Capital Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William a Kerr Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Civic Progress Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- In Our Backyards Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- P Wayne and Jane B Goode Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert J Trulaske Jr Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ameren Charitable Trust (Union Electricportfolio 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 OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS
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.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS: 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 OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS?
- OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS (Missouri) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $111,734 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($31,268). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $111,734 in grants to OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,268 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION BRIGHTSIDE INC DBA BRIGHTSIDE ST LOUIS 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13funders 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