· Private foundation
Brighter Days Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER | $250,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER3× · 2022–2024 · $750k · revenue +30%- TCThe Children's Agenda Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $87k · revenue +65%
VILLA OF HOPE2× · 2019–2022 · $50k · revenue -22%
Funded once
- GAGOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +530%
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESone grant, 2019 · $25k
YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368)one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +21%
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.
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.
Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.
The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.
The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…
The Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health exists to expand access to quality evidence-based youth mental health support as quickly as possible.
The center's mission is to help children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning & enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.
Our mission is to prepare children and adults with developmental disabilities for maximum independence and integration in the community through individualized programs and services, in keeping with the philosophy and vision of our…
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
To provide services to children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. the school runs preschool and school age programs.
The summit center, inc. is a private, not-for-profit organization approved by new york state to provide educational, therapeutic, and support services to children and young adults with autism, speech delays and disorders, and other…
To establish, erect and maintain a general hospital and dispensary in the county of monroe, ny for medical and surgical aid, care and treatment of persons in need thereof; to carry on and conduct a training school for nurses; to promote…
The organization is organized and operated for the benefit of all of the affiliates within rochester regional health system. the organization supports and assists the affiliates by reviewing and monitoring their missions, objectives,…
The Children's Academy is a specialized school that provides integrated educational services for children with speech and language delays in grades K thru 12 under a charter from the NYS Board of Regents.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Agenda Inc ↗
- Who funds VILLA OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
- Who funds Creative Ability Development Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES THRIVE INC ↗
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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · Waldron Rise Foundation Inc · The Florence M Muller Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brighter Days Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brighter Days Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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