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Brightman Hill Charitable Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19k
Granted FY2018
2
Grants FY2018
13
Organizations funded FY2017
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100% of Brightman Hill Charitable Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to The Rhode Island Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

8
’17
0
’18

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2018
$18,201
Largest grant, FY2018
$18,201
States reached, FY2018
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Philanthropy$178kArts & Culture$4kFood & Nutrition$1kInternational$1kHealth$500Community Improvement$500Religion$500Recreation & Sports$200

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2017, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Precious Project Inc$5,00011%
Hopkinton Historical Association Inc$1,5001n/a
The Kipsongo Project Inc$1,0001n/a
Southside Community Land Trust$1,00010%
Rhode Island Council for the Humanities$50010%
Grow Smart Rhode Island$50010%
Westerly Monthly Meeting of Friends$4001n/a
Special Olympics Rhode Island Inc$20010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($2k), 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.

The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Brightman Hill Charitable Foundation

How much does Brightman Hill Charitable Foundation give?
Brightman Hill Charitable Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $19,458 in its FY2018 IRS filing.
What does Brightman Hill Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2017, its largest causes are Philanthropy (96%), Arts & Culture (2%), Food & Nutrition (1%).
Who are Brightman Hill Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2017: Precious Project Inc ($5k), Hopkinton Historical Association Inc ($2k), The Kipsongo Project Inc ($1k).
Does Brightman Hill Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Brightman Hill Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Brightman Hill Charitable Foundation based?
Brightman Hill Charitable Foundation is based in RI.

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 14 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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