Missouri · Public charity
Bright Futures Fund
To offer positive education opportunities to youth in a safe, value-centered environment, and for such other purposes as permitted by law.
- $8.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $6.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $216,750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $561,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Bright Futures Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $376k went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $6.4M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $4.2M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $3.6M | 88% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $1.2M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $1.3M | 71% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Cross | $5,100,859 | 9 | n/a |
| Our Lady of Hope | $3,505,936 | 8 | n/a |
| Nativity of Mary | $1,128,375 | 3 | n/a |
| Our Lady Angelshope School | $1,022,261 | 1 | n/a |
| St Charles Borromeo | $812,814 | 3 | n/a |
| Cathedral School | $790,501 | 3 | n/a |
| St Regis Academy | $733,126 | 3 | n/a |
| St Pius X High School | $631,000 | 8 | n/a |
| St James | $605,625 | 3 | n/a |
| St John Lalande Parish | $596,063 | 3 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holy Cross | $5,100,859 | 9 | n/a |
| Our Lady of Hope | $3,505,936 | 8 | n/a |
| Nativity of Mary | $1,128,375 | 3 | n/a |
| Our Lady Angelshope School | $1,022,261 | 1 | n/a |
| St Charles Borromeo | $812,814 | 3 | n/a |
| Cathedral School | $790,501 | 3 | n/a |
| St Regis Academy | $733,126 | 3 | n/a |
| St Pius X High School | $631,000 | 8 | n/a |
| St James | $605,625 | 3 | n/a |
| St John Lalande Parish | $596,063 | 3 | n/a |
| St Thomas More | $573,750 | 3 | n/a |
| Our Lady of Presentation | $554,625 | 3 | n/a |
| St Francis Xavier | $551,438 | 3 | n/a |
| St James | $535,500 | 2 | n/a |
| St Patrick | $522,750 | 3 | n/a |
| St Michael the Archangel High School | $471,125 | 3 | n/a |
| St Teresa's Academy | $465,375 | 3 | n/a |
| St Gabriel Archangel | $433,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Cristo Rey Kansas City Sisters of Chari Ty of Leavenworth High School | $398,438 | 3 | 7% |
| Notre Dame de Sion School | $382,500 | 3 | n/a |
| St Elizabeth | $369,750 | 3 | n/a |
| St Therese Catholic Church | $344,250 | 3 | n/a |
| St Peter's Parish | $255,000 | 3 | n/a |
| United States Catholic Conference | $242,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Our Lady's Montessori | $197,625 | 2 | n/a |
| St Andrew the Apostle | $184,875 | 3 | n/a |
| Bishop Leblond High School | $178,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Notre Dame Regional High School | $108,375 | 2 | n/a |
| St Michael the Archangel Catholic High School | $89,239 | 2 | n/a |
| Rockhurst High School | $82,875 | 2 | n/a |
| Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St Joseph | $70,000 | 1 | n/a |
| St Mary's School | $65,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Visitation Parish | $38,250 | 2 | n/a |
| St Elizabeth Ann Seaton St Vincent de Paul Conference | $25,500 | 1 | n/a |
| St Agnes Cathedral | $12,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Society of St Vincent de Paul St Marys Conference | $6,375 | 1 | n/a |
| St Mary Elementary School | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($45k), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Foundation for Inclusive Religious Education Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ross Family Foundation · Greater Horizons · Oracle Health Foundation · Servant Foundation · Joseph M Fahey and Mary Elizabeth Rogers Fahey Foundation Inc · Patricia Sweeny Memorial Fund · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · Catholic Community Foundation · McCullough Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Bright Futures Fund
- How much does Bright Futures Fund give?
- Bright Futures Fund reported 30 itemized grants totaling $6,419,625, out of $8,026,675 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bright Futures Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Bright Futures Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Holy Cross ($5.1M), Our Lady of Hope ($3.5M), Nativity of Mary ($1.1M).
- Does Bright Futures Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bright Futures Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for Inclusive Religious Education Inc, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Ross Family Foundation.
- Where is Bright Futures Fund based?
- Bright Futures Fund is based in MO.
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