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Bright Sky Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2026
4
Organizations funded FY2025
75%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2026
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2023 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
6
Total assets, FY2026
$430k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 75% of the organizations Bright Sky Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 75% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving7$15k100%
FY20254$4k75%
FY20242$3k100%
FY20231$2kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$8kArts & Culture$4kReligion$2kYouth Development$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Turning Point USA Inc$4,0001n/a
Them Before US$2,5001n/a
Advocates For Balance At Chautauqua Inc$2,50021%
Juneberry Hill Schoolhouse$2,10014%
Prager University Foundation$2,0001n/a
Alliance Defending Freedom$2,0001n/a
Focus on the Family$1,0001n/a
Chautauqua Institution$1,0001n/a
Love Is a Gift Inc$1,00010%
United Christian Advocacy Network Inc$1,0001n/a

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to Bright Sky Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

About Bright Sky Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Bright Sky Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Bright Sky Charitable Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $18,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2025.
What does Bright Sky Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (55%), Arts & Culture (24%), Religion (14%).
Who are Bright Sky Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2026: Turning Point USA Inc ($4k), Them Before US ($3k), Advocates For Balance At Chautauqua Inc ($3k).
Does Bright Sky Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bright Sky Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Bright Sky Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Bright Sky Charitable Foundation Inc is based in DE.

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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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