BRIGHTER WAY INSTITUTE

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

E30

Classification

1000

Street

3140 W BUCKEYE RD

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• AT BRIGHTER WAY INSTITUTE'S DOWNTOWN LOCATION: PROVIDED ORAL HEALTHCARE TO PATIENTS WHO ARE HOMELESS, HOMELESS VETERANS, UNDERINSURED, AND UNINSURED INDIVIDUALS. AT BRIGHTER WAY INSTITUTE'S PARSONS CENTER: PROVIDED COMPREHENSIVE ORAL HEALTHCARE TO UNINSURED AND UNDERINSURED CHILDREN.

  Expenses $4,499,412 · Revenue $2,944,974

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $8,009,251

  Expenses

  $4,873,414

  Contributions

  $5,056,995

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $4,829,928

  Expenses

  $4,906,303

  Contributions

  $1,809,027

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $3,898,286

  Expenses

  $4,768,835

  Contributions

  $386,088

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $3,179,031

  Expenses

  $4,166,503

  Contributions

  $451,878

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,638,688

  Expenses

  $3,392,420

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,716,186

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $2,129,511

  Expenses

  $2,914,038

  Assets (EOY)

  $3,698,442

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $9,224,346

  Expenses

  $6,771,397

  Assets (EOY)

  $4,642,939

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $6,276,659

  Expenses

  $6,526,593

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,836,447

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $5,295,842

  Expenses

  $4,269,007

  Assets (EOY)

  $2,948,745

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $3,112,075

  Expenses

  $1,548,674

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,848,114

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES

  $125,880

  2022 · DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/HOMELESS/POVERTY

• BHHS LEGACY FOUNDATION

  $100,000

  2022 · Strengthening Oral Health Services for Low-Income Children

• THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES

  $100,000

  2024 · DOMESTIC VIOLENCE/HOMELESS/POVERTY

• BHHS LEGACY FOUNDATION

  $75,000

  2024 · Celebrating 25 Years of Oral Health Services to Low-Income Children

• THE BOARD OF VISITORS

  $60,000

  2023 · ORAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR IMPOVERISHED CHILDREN

• AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC

  $20,200

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION

  $17,000

  2022

• ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $14,000

  2024 · REMOTE ORAL HEALTH SERVICES FOR UNINSURED CHILDREN

• PHOENIX PRIDE INCORPORATED

  $10,000

  2022 · COMMUNITY PROGRAM GRANT

• ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $7,500

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

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