Illinois · Public charity
Bright Promises Foundation
To identify, fund, and share solutions to underrecognized needs of children and youth most adversely impacted by inequity.
- $368k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 30% of the organizations Bright Promises Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $367k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $531k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $382k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $453k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $316k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $512k | 77% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $307k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enlace Chicago | $181,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Logan Square Neighborhood Association | $135,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Illinois Action for Children | $130,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Vocel Viewing our Children as Emerging Leaders | $112,300 | 4 | 6% |
| Alternatives Inc | $102,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Gads Hill Center | $100,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Tuesdays Child | $100,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Arab American Action Network | $94,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Chicago Children's Advocacy Center | $85,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Primo Center for Women & Children | $85,000 | 3 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Bright Promises Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 60 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Albert Pick Jr Fund · Circle of Service Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Field Foundation of Illinois · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Greater Chicago Food Depository
How this is measured
About Bright Promises Foundation
- How much does Bright Promises Foundation give?
- Bright Promises Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $367,610 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Bright Promises Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (35%), Human Services (19%), Education (15%).
- Who are Bright Promises Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Enlace Chicago ($182k), Logan Square Neighborhood Association ($135k), Illinois Action for Children ($130k).
- Does Bright Promises Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bright Promises Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, The Chicago Community Trust, Polk Bros Foundation Inc.
- Where is Bright Promises Foundation based?
- Bright Promises Foundation is based in IL.
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