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Bright Horizons Foundation for Children

The BRIGHT HORIZONS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN is focused on brightening the lives of children, youth, and families in crisis.

$345k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$354kPublic Safety & Disaster$108kHuman Services$70kInternational$67kEducation$35kCrime & Legal$26kHealth$8k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $66,413, the rows itemized in this filing. The $345,303 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $278,890 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$11,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS$50,000
UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS$11,200
GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CARE$5,213
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $498k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CARE: $5k → 8%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $11k → 16%SAFE HORIZON INC: $26k → 17%ST JEMUEL GROUP FAMILY HOME INC: $35k → 28%ST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE EPISCOPAL INC: $35k → 14%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS: $50k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS: $50k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS: $50k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS: $50k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS: $50k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS: $50k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS: $50k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS: $35k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
CT
CO
TN
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Bright Horizons Foundation for Children’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 63%.

Bright Horizons Foundation for Childrenlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its field

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.

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Transition House Inc

Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…

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The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
3
Domestic Violence Intervention Services

See schedule oadvancing physical and emotional safety by reducing the impact and occurrence of sexual and domestic violence, human trafficking and stalking through inclusive intervention and prevention services for children, youth, and…

Human Services
4
Cathedral Center Inc

Cathedral center's mission is to provide a safe environment for women and families, while working to end homelessness one life at a time. the cathedral center serves unaccompanied women and families with children who are homeless or…

Religion
5
Center for Hope and Safety Inc

Center for hope and safety, inc.'s ("chs") mission is to assist bergen county, nj victims and survivors of domestic violence, including emotional, economic, sexual and physical abuse. the agency provides emergency and transitional housing,…

Human Services
6
Bethany House Services Inc

Bethany house services empowers homeless and at-risk families with the solutions to achieve housing stability and long-term self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
7
Samaritan House Inc

Samaritan House is committed to fostering personal safety, growth, and self-sufficiency in adults and their children through freedom from domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking and removing their risks of homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
8
Dawning Family Services Inc

We embrace diverse families with children touched by housing instability or homelessness and support their transition to a safe and stable home.

Arts & Culture
9
The Center for Women and Families Inc

To help victims of intimate partner abuse or sexual violence become survivors through supportive services, community education and cooperative partnerships that foster hope, promote self-sufficiency and rebuild lives.

Human Services
10
Shalom House

Our mission is to empower women and transform lives.

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11
City Rescue Mission Inc

Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.

Human Services
12
Mary's Shelter

Mary's shelter is committed to empowering homeless youth by providing housing, education, and social service programs.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Resource Center; the most unlike its peers is Orlando Community & Youth Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

78 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/78
Grantees still filing
59/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $385,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDRENST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INCSAINT JEMUEL GROUP FAMILY DAYCARE INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JEMUEL GROUP FAMILY DAYCARE INCSAFE HORIZON INC: $26,402 · Human Services+2 more: $16,413 · Human ServicesSave The Children Federation Inc: $118,143 · InternationalSave The Children F…Mercy Corps: $7,861 · InternationalMercy CorpsBal Swan Childrens Center: $35,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $8,609 · OtherTEXAS DIAPER BANK: $20,630 · HealthUMass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent): $8,000 · HealthALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $28,491 · Public Safety & DisasterIM SULZBACHER CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$497,815International$126,004Other$43,609Health$28,630Public Safety & Disaster$28,491Housing & Shelter$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $385,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $118,143 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBal Swan Childrens Center: $35,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $28,491 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC: $26,402 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS DIAPER BANK: $20,630 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $11,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIM SULZBACHER CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $8,609 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUMass Memorial Health Care Inc (Parent): $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $7,861 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC: $5,213 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 Gap FoundationGeorge M Eisenberg Fo…Mary Kay Ash Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…United Way of Metropo…United Way Of Massach…Delivering Good IncEastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncThe Blackbaud Giving …Enterprise Holdings F…Andrew and Alice Fisc…
The Gap FoundationCA15.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bright Horizons Foundation for Children funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bright Horizons Foundation for Children. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Im Sulzbacher Center for the Homeless Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Bright Horizons Foundation for Children?

Find your warmest path to Bright Horizons Foundation for Children through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 14 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 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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