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BRIGHT FUTURES

EIN 20-2169766 TELLURIDE, CO

Revenue 2024
$2,592,249
Expenses 2024
$2,623,772

Program services were 90.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P193
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 4216

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).

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.

  • SUSAN ALTMAN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MATTHEW BAYMA

    BOARD CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALISON WRIGHT

    BOARD TREASURER & SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GLORIA CHAVIRA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • HEATHER YOUNG

    BOARD VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATHLEEN MERRITT

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $187,043
    From this org
    $156,382
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $30,661
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $156,382
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $4,548
    Nontaxable benefits
    $26,113
    Filer's total
    $187,043

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 — 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

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $2,592,249
    Expenses
    $2,623,772
    Contributions
    $2,569,587
    Grants paid
    $936,574
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,665,718
    Expenses
    $2,465,921
    Contributions
    $2,647,465
    Grants paid
    $723,943
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,535,134
    Expenses
    $2,362,053
    Contributions
    $2,529,275
    Grants paid
    $637,197

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.

Grants made

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

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

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 10 September 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.