· Private foundation
Bright Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $231k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $125,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR | $56,280 |
| DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB | $50,000 |
| THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS | $25,000 |
| CALLIER CENTER - UT DALLAS | $15,000 |
| WIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER | $10,000 |
| MOMENTOUS INSTITUTE | $7,500 |
| PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -38% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CMCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $4.5M · revenue +209%
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK3× · 2023–2025 · $375k · revenue +29%
- D2DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SLSERVE LEWISVILLE INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue -38%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
To lead and serve in the moments that matter the most for the people of dallas.
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
The mission of the dallas county medical society is to promote public health and advocate for physicians and their relationship with patients, while upholding professionalism in the practice of medicine.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
To deliver primary care to children in critically under served areas of the North Central Texas community in a private physician office setting.
The organization shall undertake, sponsor, and administer basic and/or clinical research in children's health issues.children's medical center research institute at ut southwestern (cri) is a nonprofit research institute built on the…
Provide anesthesia services to patients at children's medical center of dallas. these services are provided without regard to a patient's ability to pay for the services.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
Trec's mission is to cultivate relationships in the commercial real estate industry to catalyze community investment, influence policy, propel careers and develop the leaders of tomorrow.we believe relationships are the lifeblood of career…
The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
- Who funds SERVE LEWISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION OF FORMER STUDENTS OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WIPE OUT KIDS' CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds Momentous Institute ↗
- Who funds PEROT MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bright Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bright Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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