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Bright & Christella Erichson Charitable Trust Ua Dtd 08/06/79

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$51k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 11
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$908k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Bright & Christella Erichson Charitable Trust Ua Dtd 08/06/79 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesRecreation & Sports
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$51k14%
FY20247$69k29%
FY20235$39k20%
FY20228$106k0%
FY20218$51k0%
FY20209$54k0%
FY201910$56k0%
FY201711$64kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$302kReligion$108kHealth$72kFood & Nutrition$9k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($172k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bright & Christella Erichson Charitable Trust Ua Dtd 08/06/79 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLittle Sisters of the Poor of the City and County of Philadelphia: $75,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSt Ignatius Nursing & Rehab Center: $69,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc: $48,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetGolden Slipper Center for Seniors Inc: $43,500 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetJewish Family & Children's Service of Greater Philadelphia: $41,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetConnectedly: $18,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetKaiserman Jewish Community Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGentle Gratitude: $5,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLittle Brothers Friends of the Elderly: $4,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCenter in the Park: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Blind Relief Fund of Philadelphia: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Bright & Christella Erichson Charitable Trust Ua Dtd 08/06/79

How much does Bright & Christella Erichson Charitable Trust Ua Dtd 08/06/79 give?
Bright & Christella Erichson Charitable Trust Ua Dtd 08/06/79 reported 7 grants totaling $51,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Bright & Christella Erichson Charitable Trust Ua Dtd 08/06/79 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (62%), Religion (22%), Health (15%).
Who are Bright & Christella Erichson Charitable Trust Ua Dtd 08/06/79's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Little Sisters of the Poor of the City and County of Philadelphia ($75k), St Ignatius Nursing & Rehab Center ($70k), Mercy Neighborhood Ministries Inc ($48k).
Does Bright & Christella Erichson Charitable Trust Ua Dtd 08/06/79 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bright & Christella Erichson Charitable Trust Ua Dtd 08/06/79 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bright & Christella Erichson Charitable Trust Ua Dtd 08/06/79?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, W W Smith Charitable Trust, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey.
Where is Bright & Christella Erichson Charitable Trust Ua Dtd 08/06/79 based?
Bright & Christella Erichson Charitable Trust Ua Dtd 08/06/79 is based in NJ.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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