North Carolina · Private foundation
Brighthouse Financial 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.
- $808k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 40
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Brighthouse Financial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $675k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 20 | $808k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $970k | 71% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $795k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $635k | 64% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $828k | 79% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $1.3M | 95% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $425k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region | $460,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Heart Math Tutoring Inc | $280,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Clt Host 2020 Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Carolina Youth Coalition | $175,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Time Out Youth Inc | $145,000 | 3 | 6% |
| E2D Inc E2D Eliminate the Digital Divide | $140,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Right Moves for Youth Inc | $120,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Crisis Assistance Ministry | $110,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Child and Family Focus Inc | $110,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Digi-Bridge | $105,000 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brighthouse Financial Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Ally Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Womens Impact Fund · Champions for Education Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Brighthouse Financial Foundation
- How much does Brighthouse Financial Foundation give?
- Brighthouse Financial Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $808,441 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 40 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Brighthouse Financial Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are Brighthouse Financial Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region ($460k), Heart Math Tutoring Inc ($280k), Clt Host 2020 Inc ($250k).
- Does Brighthouse Financial Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Brighthouse Financial 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 Brighthouse Financial Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc, Ally Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Brighthouse Financial Foundation based?
- Brighthouse Financial Foundation is based in NC.
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