Massachusetts · Public charity
Bright Horizons Foundation for Children
The BRIGHT HORIZONS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN is focused on brightening the lives of children, youth, and families in crisis. We support a range of programs that serve children, families, and nonprofit agencies through volunteers, grants, and resources. Our signature program, bright spaces, creates and supports play areas that brighten the…
- $345k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $66k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Bright Horizons Foundation for Children funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $66k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $50k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $67k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $117k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $35k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $76k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $85k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $110k | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horizons for Homeless Children | $385,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $118,143 | 3 | 0% |
| St Luke's Community House Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Saint Jemuel Group Family Daycare Inc | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bal Swan Childrens Center | $35,000 | 1 | 2% |
| All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc | $28,491 | 1 | 0% |
| Safe Horizon Inc | $26,402 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas Diaper Bank | $20,630 | 1 | 0% |
| United South End Settlements | $11,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Im Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horizons for Homeless Children | $385,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $118,143 | 3 | 0% |
| St Luke's Community House Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Saint Jemuel Group Family Daycare Inc | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bal Swan Childrens Center | $35,000 | 1 | 2% |
| All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc | $28,491 | 1 | 0% |
| Safe Horizon Inc | $26,402 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas Diaper Bank | $20,630 | 1 | 0% |
| United South End Settlements | $11,200 | 1 | 0% |
| Im Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley | $8,609 | 3 | 0% |
| UMass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent) | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mercy Corps | $7,861 | 1 | 0% |
| Hospice of the Good Shepherd Inc | $5,213 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bright Horizons Foundation for Children supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Gap Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · Mary Kay Ash Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Delivering Good Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Andrew and Alice Fischer Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Bright Horizons Foundation for Children
- How much does Bright Horizons Foundation for Children give?
- Bright Horizons Foundation for Children reported 3 itemized grants totaling $66,413, out of $345,303 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bright Horizons Foundation for Children fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (53%), Public Safety & Disaster (16%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Bright Horizons Foundation for Children's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Horizons for Homeless Children ($385k), Save The Children Federation Inc ($118k), St Luke's Community House Inc ($35k).
- Does Bright Horizons Foundation for Children fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bright Horizons Foundation for Children?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Gap Foundation, George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities, Mary Kay Ash Foundation.
- Where is Bright Horizons Foundation for Children based?
- Bright Horizons Foundation for Children is based in MA.
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