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.

Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua

Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua at a glance

· Private foundation

Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$169k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$21k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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

02FY2025 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k51 grants · $138k
$10k–50k2 grants · $31k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FERNBANK MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY	$21,000
THE PICCADILLY PUPPETS COMPANY	$10,000
FIRE ROCKETS	$7,000
ATLANTA AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMER	$6,000
WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR	$5,000
FEET ON THE STREET MINISTRIES INC	$5,000
VAMOS ADELANTE FOUNDATION	$5,000
THE GEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC	$4,000
ATLANTA MUSIC PROJECT INC	$4,000
WYLDE CENTER	$3,000
THE COTTAGE SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE	$3,000
ESSENTIAL3LIFE INC	$3,000
FAMILY HERITAGE FOUNDATION	$3,000
GEORGIA RIVER NETWORK	$3,000
LIFECYCLE BLDG CENTER INC	$3,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$798k · 62 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

62 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$798k

$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+18%

Still filing today

77%

82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

FI
Fernbank Inc
6× · 2020–2025 · $115k · revenue +87%
PP
PICCADILLY PUPPETS CO
6× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +31% · 40% of their budget
WI
WOMENS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR GUATEMALAN SOLUTIONS INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +106%

Funded once

TA
THE ATLANTA GIRLS' SCHOOL INC
one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -99%
AW
ATHENAS WAREHOUSE INC
one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +11%
MI
MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +38%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

The Atlanta Academy Inc

Our mission is to give every student the individual attention they need to succeed. this is at the core of everything we do. atlanta academy teaches children from pre-k through eighth grade.

Education

Thrive Academy Atlanta Inc

Thrive Academy is a private Christian school using education as a platform to reach, disciple, and empower students facing systemic injustice, childhood trauma, and poverty. With student housing, engaging curriculum, and intentional…

Education

Girls Inc of Greater Atlanta Inc

To inspire all girls to be strong, smart and bold.

Youth Development

Girl Scouts of Greater Atlanta Inc

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development

Hands on Atlanta Inc

We mobilize the Atlanta community to tackle our city's most pressing needs.

Philanthropy

Mom Community Inc

To provide low-cost transitional living and life skill programs to pregnant mothers and new moms between the ages of 18 and 24

Human Services

Young Women Christian Association of Greater Atlanta

YWCA Greater Atlanta is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

Human Services

Horizons Atlanta Inc

Horizons Atlanta is a tuition-free, intensive, six-week summer academic and enrichment program that supports students from under-served communities over the course of their academic careers.

Youth Development

Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School

The mission of the atlanta neighborhood charter school (ancs) is to use the principles of the coalition of essential schools to: build an empowered and inclusive community of students,parents, and educators; engage the whole…

Education

Georgia Appleseed Inc

The mission of Georgia Appleseed is to keep children in school and on a path to success by providing legal services and representation, leading law and policy reform, growing a statewide community of advocates, and collaborating with…

Civil Rights

The Waldorf School of Atlanta

The Waldorf School of Atlanta develops in its students the will to become life-long learners by fostering in each student the ability to think with clarity, feel with compassion, and act with purpose in the world.

Education

Truancy Intervention Project Georgia

To increase student attendance and opportunities for success through legal and family advocacy.

Crime & Legal

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frazer Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Childspring International Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 110 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

83/84

Grantees still filing

54/84

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$374,640Arts & Culture$241,000International$74,300Youth Development$56,000Environment$53,500Religion$46,000Education$46,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bright Wings Fndtn Tr Ua. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home