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· Public charity

Brighton Center Inc

To create opportunities for individuals and families to reach self-sufficiency through family support services, education, employment, and leadership.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$215k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$1.3MHuman Services$759kEducation$193kCommunity Improvement$110kCrime & Legal$60kScience & Tech$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $414,462, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,105,354 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,690,892 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $83k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $323k
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chapin Hall Center for Children$214,732
Brighton Properties$108,500
Northern KY Chamber of Commerce$40,000
Mathematica$23,796
Kenton County Public Library$19,384
Local Initiatives Support Corporation$8,050
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $759k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Chapin Hall Center for Children: $222k → 14%Chapin Hall Center for Children: $215k → 14%Chapin Hall Center for Children: $202k → 14%Chapin Hall Center for Children: $108k → 14%Be Concerned Inc: $5k → 11%St Vincent De Paul Council of Northern Kentucky Inc: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 7 repeat orgs$148k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

$2.4M
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+26%

Still filing today

43%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • BP
    Brighton Properties Inc
    6× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue -14% · 35% of their budget
  • CH
    CHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN
    4× · 2022–2025 · $746k · revenue +13%
  • JC
    JEFFERSON COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE
    2× · 2018–2019 · $132k

Funded once

  • CC
    Campbell County Detention Center
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
  • LG
    LEARNING GROVE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $22k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    Campbell County Detention Center
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
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.

1
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
2
Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

—
3
Ky Access to Justice Commission Inc

To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…

Crime & Legal
4
Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce Inc

Providing leadership, advocacy and member services that foster growth and economic prosperity for our region.

—
5
Cumberland Valley Domestic Violence Services Inc

To provide shelter for victims of domestic violence

Human Services
6
Kentucky Coalition Inc

To support grassroots organizing, leadership development & public education around important public policy. ky coalition seeks to promote active citizen participation in the democratic process.

Public Benefit
7
American Dairy Association of Kentucky

Everything we do is market-focused and proactively promotes and protects the interests of the southeast dairy farm families.

—
8
Community Affordable Residences Enterprise Inc

To create an equitable and just community through high quality affordable housing and transformative resident services. We envision a community where an affordable home is available to everyone.

Housing & Shelter
9
Central Louisville Community Ministries Inc

Central louisville community ministries provides emergency assistance for rent, utilities and medication. also provide in-kind assistances for food, clothing, personal care items,school supplies and haircut vouchers.

—
10
Linc Up Nonprofit Housing Corporation

Stimulate community revitalization through providing quality affordable housing in kent county, michigan for persons of low and moderate income, through other homeowner assistance, through community organizing, and commercial development.

Housing & Shelter
11
Kentucky Senior Citizens Apartments Inc

Provide staffing and services to operate apartment complexes for senior citizens in northern kentucky.

—
12
Middle Kentucky Community Action Partnership Inc

To eliminate barriers, achieve economic security and empower families by partnering with other service providers.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society of St Vincent De Paul Council of Northern Kentucky; the most unlike its peers is Chapin Hall Center for Children. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Brighton Properties Inc: $1,325,064 · Human ServicesBrighton Properties IncCHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $745,687 · Human ServicesCHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN+2 more: $13,000 · Human ServicesJEFFERSON COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $131,549 · OtherJEFFERSON COMMUNITY…NORTHERN KENTUCKY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $90,000 · OtherNORTHERN KENTUCKY C…MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH INC: $40,208 · OtherMATHEMATICA POLICY …Campbell County Detention Center (CCDC): $40,150 · OtherCampbell County Det…KENTON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $39,384 · OtherKENTON COUNTY PUBLI…LEARNING GROVE INC: $22,000 · OtherNewport Fire Department: $21,772 · OtherCampbell County Detention Center: $19,850 · Other+3 more: $28,370 · Other+3 moreWELCOME HOUSE INC: $6,500 · Housing & ShelterEmergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $8,050 · Community ImprovementACTION MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Religion
Human Services$2,083,751Other$433,283Housing & Shelter$11,500Community Improvement$8,050Religion$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBrighton Properties Inc: $1,325,064 over 6y, 35% of budgetCHAPIN HALL CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $745,687 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHERN KENTUCKY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $90,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetLEARNING GROVE INC: $22,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Kentucky Community Action Commission Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL COUNCIL OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWELCOME HOUSE INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBE CONCERNED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACTION MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEmergency Shelter of Northern KY Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

Honorable Order of Ke…The Greater Cincinnat…The Butler FoundationThe Fischer Family Fo…Horizon Community Fun…The R C Durr Foundati…St Elizabeth Medical …Duke Energy FoundationGeorge and Mary Jo Bu…Charles H Dater Found…United Way of Greater…The Scripps Howard Fo…
Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels IncKY19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Butler Foundation · The Fischer Family Foundation 2008 · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · The R C Durr Foundation Inc 541 Buttermilk Pike Suite 500 · St Elizabeth Medical Center Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · George and Mary Jo Budig Family Foundati Foundation C/O George J Budig · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Cincinnati · The Scripps Howard 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 Brighton Center Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brighton Center Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.

    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 19 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 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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