- Revenue 2024
- $104,177
- Expenses 2024
- $148,256
Program services were 75.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- T30
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- PO BOX 611
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 · 2024
Mission
THE BRIGHTER CHOICE FOUNDATION IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT 501(C) 3 THAT SEEKS TO TRANSFORM AND IMPROVE THE K-12 PUBLIC EDUCATION LANDSCAPE IN THE CAPITAL DISTRICT THROUGH THE SUPPORT AND SPONSORSHIP OF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS AND OTHER NEW AND INNOVATIVE INITIATIVES THAT EXPAND OR STRENGTHEN EDUCATIONAL OPTIONS FOR HISTORICALLY UNDER-SERVED STUDENTS, FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITIES. IN SUPPORT OF THIS MISSION, THE BRIGHTER CHOICE FOUNDATION WILL MAKE GRANTS THAT SUPPORT INITIATIVES DESIGNED TO GROW AND IMPROVE THE EDUCATION OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO FAMILIES IN THE CAPITAL DISTRICT.
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THE BRIGHTER CHOICE FOUNDATION IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT 501(C) 3 THAT SEEKS TO TRANSFORM AND IMPROVE THE K-12 PUBLIC EDUCATION LANDSCAPE IN THE CAPITAL DISTRICT THROUGH THE SUPPORT AND SPONSORSHIP OF PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS AND OTHER NEW AND INNOVATIVE INITIATIVES THAT EXPAND OR STRENGTHEN EDUCATIONAL OPTIONS FOR HISTORICALLY UNDER-SERVED STUDENTS, FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITIES. IN SUPPORT OF THIS MISSION, THE BRIGHTER CHOICE FOUNDATION WILL MAKE GRANTS THAT SUPPORT INITIATIVES DESIGNED TO GROW AND IMPROVE THE EDUCATION OPTIONS AVAILABLE TO FAMILIES IN THE CAPITAL DISTRICT.
Expenses $111,997 · Revenue $100,000
As filed on the 2024 return.
Officers and directors · 2024
As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.
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KATIE OWENS
MANAGING DIRECTOR
- Total calculated
- $12,000
- From this org
- $12,000
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $0
- Hours/week
- 5
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MICHAEL STRIANESE
BOARD CHAIR
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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BRIAN BACKSTROM
SECRETARY
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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MARK MUSCATIELLO
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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CHRIS GARBER
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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ERIN O'MEARA
TRUSTEE
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.
Filings
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2024
- Revenue
- $104,177
- Expenses
- $148,256
- Contributions
- $100,000
- Grants paid
- $30,000
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2023
- Revenue
- $125,969
- Expenses
- $178,871
- Contributions
- $100,000
- Grants paid
- $4,000
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2022
- Revenue
- $108,316
- Expenses
- $330,056
- Contributions
- $100,000
- Grants paid
- $185,000
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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $100,000
- Expenses
- $230,986
- Assets (EOY)
- $941,279
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,054
- Expenses
- $260,894
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,071,936
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,785,505
- Expenses
- $682,797
- Assets (EOY)
- $1,302,583
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $819,721
- Expenses
- $909,309
- Assets (EOY)
- $10,223,673
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,101,532
- Expenses
- $1,937,031
- Assets (EOY)
- $10,398,626
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $1,997,242
- Expenses
- $2,515,051
- Assets (EOY)
- $19,301,651
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,269,423
- Expenses
- $4,913,685
- Assets (EOY)
- $26,179,228
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $6,154,177
- Expenses
- $5,079,352
- Assets (EOY)
- $37,142,067
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2011 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $2,449,731
- Assets (EOY)
- $61,994,844
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2011 · 990
- Revenue
- not reported
- Expenses
- $5,474,363
- Assets (EOY)
- $62,010,041
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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.
Grants made
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2022 GENERAL OPERATIONS
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2022 GENERAL OPERATIONS
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2022 GENERAL OPERATIONS
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$15,000
2024 HENRY JOHNSON CHARTER SCHOOL WAS AWARDED $15,000 BY THE BRIGHTER CHOICE FOUNDATION COMMITTEE AT END OF 2024.
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2024 DESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL WAS AWARDED $15,000 BY THE BRIGHTER CHOICE FOUNDATION COMMITTEE IN 2024.
Grants received
No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.
Other IRS files
Auto-Revocation List
Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.
Publication 78
Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.
These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.
What this page reflects
The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.