Bright Spark Learning Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931582939
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Costa Mesa, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9499334239
- Rating
- 92
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Primary, Elementary Schools
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $166,514
- Expenses
- $175,142
- Assets
- $64,586
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Steve Jaksch (President)
People named in this filing
- Jacqueline Thomas (Treasurer)
- Steve Jaksch (President)
- Pam Hardenbergh (Secretary)
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 support homeschool families in educating their elementary aged children by providing an optional center based program. The program provides flexibility, support, and educatio for participating families and their children. Learning is individualized depending on each child's needs. The organization serves a great need in the community because educated teachers are providing educational instruction and assistance to both children and their families in teh underserved homeschool community. The organization provides partial scholarships for students and families on an as-needed basis.
What it reported doing in 2025
The organization provided core elementary eduational services to 11 and then 10 children from the community in grades TK through third. We also assisted families in planning educational instruction at home. We provided scholarships to one child/family for the full year and to one child/family until they left for another program valued at $19,475 to give them access to our services. Part-time volunteer teachers gave their time and expertise to support eht lead teacher and educate the children. High quality curriculum and educational materials were purchased to use with the children. Educational services were given on a part-time basis. A classroom and outdoor play space were rented to facilitate the program. A lead teacher was employed to both direct the program and teach the children.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 64% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 87% 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. Some filed totals do not add up and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.5%; rating input score 93
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
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: -5.2%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 44.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 93.5% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $156K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 7 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 31/100.