Ohio · Private foundation
Bright Seed Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $6k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,030
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $94k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Bright Seed Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 7 | $6k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $5k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $7k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $2k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $6k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway to Leadership Foundation | $3,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Bethlehem Inn | $1,893 | 3 | 0% |
| Redeemer School Inc | $1,030 | 1 | 0% |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Citymeals-On-Wheels | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Indiana University Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels People Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Vincent de Paul | $875 | 2 | n/a |
| Citizens4community | $758 | 2 | 0% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($14k), 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Bright Seed Foundation Inc
- How much does Bright Seed Foundation Inc give?
- Bright Seed Foundation Inc reported 7 grants totaling $6,084 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Bright Seed Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (18%), Philanthropy (17%), Housing & Shelter (15%).
- Who are Bright Seed Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Gateway to Leadership Foundation ($4k), Bethlehem Inn ($2k), Redeemer School Inc ($1k).
- Does Bright Seed Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bright Seed Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bright Seed Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Bright Seed Foundation Inc based?
- Bright Seed Foundation Inc is based in OH.
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