New York · Private foundation
Bright Sky Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $205k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of Bright Sky Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Ojc Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $103,800
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 14
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $82k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Bright Sky Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $102k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $54k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $177k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chelkainy Inc | $15,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Yietz Vezer Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Global Center of Skver | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Ohr Hachaim Hakadosh | $4,800 | 1 | 1% |
| Yad Ltalmid Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Yad Lyisroel Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($292k), 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Ojc Fund · The Gds Foundation
How this is measured
About Bright Sky Foundation
- How much does Bright Sky Foundation give?
- Bright Sky Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $205,460 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 14 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Bright Sky Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (34%), Philanthropy (15%), Human Services (6%).
- Who are Bright Sky Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Chelkainy Inc ($16k), Yietz Vezer Inc ($10k), Global Center of Skver ($8k).
- Does Bright Sky Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bright Sky Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bright Sky Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ojc Fund, The Gds Foundation.
- Where is Bright Sky Foundation based?
- Bright Sky Foundation is based in NY.
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