Bright Futures Mentoring Program

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
680570392
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Cody, WY, USA
Phone
3075276688
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Reported finances

Revenue
$114,105
Expenses
$101,191
Assets
$183,683
Liabilities
$996

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

11 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JULIA COOK (PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • KORI BLACK (VICE PRESIDE)
  • JESSICA CASE (DIRECTOR)
  • THERESA CLARK (DIRECTOR)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To build mentoring relationships between positive role models and youth to develop a healthy, successful youth community.

What it reported doing in 2025

Bright futures brings together compassionate adults and high school students who enjoy mentoring children. We match these mentors with students seeking extra guidance, support, and friendship, fostering relationships with positive role models to empower youth towards their fullest potential. Our operations center on four main goals for kids, mentoring, teaching, self-worth, and social connection through two programs, after school and one-to-one. At after school, mentors join a diverse group of fifth-graders at the library twice a month for fun, enriching after school activities; for 2025, 16 events were held with 8 high school mentors, 3 adult mentors and 20 mentees per event. In the one-to-one program, each mentor is matched with a designated student for the school year. Mentors join these students at their schools once a month to spend time together over lunch; 161 lunches were held in 2025.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 93
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 62
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.5%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 99.6%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 11.3%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.82; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 88.5% of revenue deployed · 99.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $101K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.