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Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$169k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
53
Grants FY2025
45
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$21,000
Organizations funded a year
41 to 48
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$2.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentReligionHealthFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2025still arriving53$169k26%
FY202445$149k27%
FY202348$167k31%
FY202241$156k22%
FY202145$128k33%
FY202045$124kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$259kYouth Development$145kEducation$116kInternational$81kEnvironment$77kHealth$53kReligion$49kCommunity Improvement$31kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
CT
UT
CO
MD
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 92 grantees
All grantees of Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fernbank Inc$115,00060%
Piccadilly Puppets Co$66,000640%
Vamos Adelante Foundation$43,30064%
Womens International Network for Guatemalan Solutions Inc$31,00050%
Georgia Conservancy Inc$25,00060%
The Study Hall Inc$21,00051%
Feet on the Street Ministries Inc$18,00053%
Our House Inc$16,00060%
Wylde Center Inc$16,00050%
Murphy-Harpst Children's Centers Inc$16,00060%
Covenant Community Inc$15,00041%
GEORGIA RIVER NETWORK INC dba GEORGIA RIVERS$15,00060%
Presencia Inc$15,00052%
Canterbury Court Inc$15,00020%
Timanous Foundation$14,50060%
Camp Sunshine Inc$13,00040%
Georgia State University Foundation Inc$10,00050%
Collective Learning Academy Inc$10,00021%
Family Heritage Foundation Inc$10,00031%
Aris Inc$10,0004n/a
Wilderness Works$9,50051%
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia Inc$9,00040%
The Global Village Project Inc$9,00020%
Vox Teen Communications Inc$8,00060%
Global Growers Network Inc$8,00040%
Object Group Inc$7,3005n/a
Atlanta Music Project Inc$7,00030%
Restoration Atl Mission Inc$7,00030%
The Adaptive Learning Center for Infants and Children Inc$7,00031%
Fire Rockets$7,0001n/a
Toolbox Inc$6,000218%
Dunwoody Nature Center Inc$6,00030%
Bearings Bike Shop Inc$6,00020%
The Frazer Center Inc$6,00020%
Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc$6,00020%
Queen Academy$5,84026%
Fly on a Wall Inc$5,50042%
The Atlanta Girls' School Inc$5,00010%
Essential2life Inc$5,00031%
Cure Childhood Cancer Inc$5,00050%
Mill Springs Academy Inc$5,00020%
Hawk Talk Inc$4,5006n/a
The Drake House Inc$4,00020%
Hillside Inc$4,00030%
Cool Girls Inc$4,00020%
Covenant House Georgia Inc$4,00020%
Bloom Our Youth Inc$4,00020%
Joel Chandler Harris Association$4,00021%
New Life Technology Group Inc$4,00022%
LaAmistad Inc$3,00010%
Athenas Warehouse Inc$3,0001n/a
Georgia Symphony Orchestra$3,00020%
The Summit Counseling Center Inc$3,00010%
Chattahoochee Riverkeeper Inc$2,5001n/a
Moving in the Spirit Inc$2,50010%
Kate's Club Inc$2,50020%
Side by Side Brain Injury Clubhouse$2,00010%
Songs for Kids Foundation Inc$2,00011%
Lostintheletters Inc$2,0001n/a
Concrete Jungle Inc$2,00020%
Community Guilds Inc$2,00010%
The Boyce L Ansley School Inc$2,00010%
Save Institute Inc$2,0001n/a
Canyonlands Field Institute Inc$2,00010%
Elachee Nature Science Center Inc$2,00010%
Anyone Can Camps Inc$2,00011%
Williams House Inc$2,0001n/a
George West Mental Health Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Onstage Atlanta Inc$2,00011%
Girl Talk Inc$2,00011%
Special Needs Schools of Gwinnett Inc$2,00020%
Woodlands Garden of Decatur Inc$2,00010%
Twinhead Theatre Inc$2,00012%
Atlanta Historical Society Inc$1,50010%
Childspring International Inc$1,50010%
Atlanta Youth Soccer Association Inc$1,50010%
Girltalk Hotline$1,0001n/a
Birds Georgia Corporation$1,00010%
Feeding Ga Families$1,00011%
Asa Music Production Inc$1,0001n/a
Atlanta Ministry With International Students Inc aka AMIS Atlanta$1,00011%
Hillside Atlanta Foundation Inc$1,000153%
Chattahoochee Nature Center Inc$1,00010%
Soccer In the Streets Inc$1,00010%
Children's Development Academy Inc$1,00010%
The Gift of Music Foundation Inc$1,00010%
West Atlanta Watershed Alliance$1,00010%
Atlanta Contempory Art Center Inc$1,00010%
Everybody Wins Atlanta Inc$1,00010%
Lifecycle Building Center Inc$1,00010%
Lukes Place Inc$1,0001n/a
Literacy Action Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($150k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 80 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFernbank Inc: $115,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPiccadilly Puppets Co: $66,000 over 6y, 40% of budgetVamos Adelante Foundation: $43,300 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetWomens International Network for Guatemalan Solutions Inc: $31,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia Conservancy Inc: $25,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetThe Study Hall Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetFeet on the Street Ministries Inc: $18,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetOur House Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWylde Center Inc: $16,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMurphy-Harpst Children's Centers Inc: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant Community Inc: $15,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGEORGIA RIVER NETWORK INC dba GEORGIA RIVERS: $15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPresencia Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCanterbury Court Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTimanous Foundation: $14,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Sunshine Inc: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCollective Learning Academy Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFamily Heritage Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWilderness Works: $9,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetThe Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Global Village Project Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetVox Teen Communications Inc: $8,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGlobal Growers Network Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAtlanta Music Project Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRestoration Atl Mission Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Adaptive Learning Center for Infants and Children Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetToolbox Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetDunwoody Nature Center Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBearings Bike Shop Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Frazer Center Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Atlanta Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQueen Academy: $5,840 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetFly on a Wall Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetThe Atlanta Girls' School Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEssential2life Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCure Childhood Cancer Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMill Springs Academy Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Drake House Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHillside Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCool Girls Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCovenant House Georgia Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBloom Our Youth Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJoel Chandler Harris Association: $4,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNew Life Technology Group Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetLaAmistad Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgia Symphony Orchestra: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Summit Counseling Center Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 80.

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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 Imlay Foundation IncGA83.2× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Imlay Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Atl Fdn-W Peters Main · Tr Uw Charles I Branan · AEC Trust · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · The Richard C Munroe Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Abreu M & F Ctr Tr Ua · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation

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.

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About Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua

How much does Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua give?
Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua reported 53 grants totaling $168,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 48 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Youth Development (16%), Education (13%).
Who are Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Fernbank Inc ($115k), Piccadilly Puppets Co ($66k), Vamos Adelante Foundation ($43k).
Does Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Imlay Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, Atl Fdn-W Peters Main.
Where is Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua based?
Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua is based in FL.

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 110 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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