Brighter Days Grief Center

Analysis

Brighter Days Grief Center is a registered charity in United States, based in Eden Prairie, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2016, 10 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Brighter Days Grief Center reported income of $500k and spending of $462k, spending 92% of its income. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $364k to $500k (+37%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 55%. Over the whole period it spent 84% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Brighter Days Grief Center sits at the 65th percentile: it is larger than about 65% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Christ Lutheran Early Childhood Development Program Inc ($500k), Center for Farmworker Families ($500k) and Color Street Foundation Inc ($500k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $177k. At year end it held assets of $197k against liabilities of $3,162, net assets of $193k. It reported 4 employees.