Starbright Learning Center (Formerly Brighton Hall School)

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
260449043
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Burbank, CA, USA
Phone
8189859485
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$750,293
Expenses
$989,882
Assets
$2,505,286
Liabilities
$9,860

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • NIRANJALA PEIRIS (DIRECTOR): $183,744 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Brighton hall is a school that has been organized as a non-profit organization and it has been granted non-profit status under internal revenue code section 501 (c) (3). It's chief mission is to provide a superior education to students in grades k through 12. At the conclusion of the school year brighton hall has amended its articles of incorporation to change its legal corporate name to starbright learning center. This was necessary as the corporation has also updated its organizational purpose to reflect its continued operation as a charitable and educational organization providing supplemental educational services, including tutoring, enrichment programming, educational workshops and instructional support for homeschool families. It will no longer operate as a private school. Attached to this return are the following documents: 1. Certificate of amendment of articles of incorporation of bighton hall 2. Starbright learning center unanimous written consent of the board of directors. 3

What it reported doing in 2025

Brighton hall has provided educational services to students grades 1-12 since 1997. The school offers full academic programs required by the state of California for high school graduation, college counseling and after school enrichment programs such as art, coding and fitness. All coursework is uc-certified, which allows graduates to attend any public or private university nationwide. Most graduates go on to 4-year universities (most with scholarships) and the scho0l consistently ranks in the upper 90% of schools in standardized since the covid pandemic and return to regular campus classes, the school has served a growing number of neurodiverse students with learning disorders. These students particularly benefit from small class sizes, allowing the ability to accommodate the requirements for their academic challenges and work with their in-class educational aides. The school was able to partnership with a local elementary school to provide a short term aftershcool care program while the school program was restructured. During the fiscal year that was just completed the following accomplishments were significant: 1. 100% of the students that took the ap calculus examination received scores of 4 or 5. 2. The school took pride in seeing that its longest-attending student gain acceptance to nearly 20 prestigious universities. 3. A family festival was held that saw over 200 members of the public attend.

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 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 89
  • Transparency & Controls: 60
  • Accountability: 63
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -31.9%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.53; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 18.6%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.2% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 1 board members independent · 1 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $990K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $184K · 6 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 24 of 25 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 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.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Independent members within voting members did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.