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Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of BRIGHTON FOUNDATION TRUST ROBERT D MARKLEY TRUSTEE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k64 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $23k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH -HIGHLANDS | $110,250 |
| VISION CASHIERS INC | $22,500 |
| ACADEMY PREP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $5,000 |
| ST PETERSBURG FREE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| REACH OF MACON COUNTY | $5,000 |
| PROJECT ROUJ (ZANMI FONDWA) | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PLATEAU | $5,000 |
| HIGHLANDS CASHIERS HEALTH FOUND | $5,000 |
| BROOKE'S PLACE | $5,000 |
| HEARTS AND HOPE FOR HAITI | $5,000 |
| VILLAGE GREEN | $5,000 |
| GREAT EXPLORATIONS CHILDREN'S MUSUEM | $4,000 |
| BLUMENTHAL ARTS | $3,500 |
| BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- VCVISION CASHIERS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $132k · revenue +257%
- BGBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +547%
- BPBrooke's Place for Grieving Young People9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $35k
- CTCLOTHES TO KIDS ST PETERSBURGone grant, 2017 · $3k
- NCNORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF FREE AND CHARITABLE CLINICS INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
See schedule o.inspired by our home city, baltimore center stage acts as a cultural catalyst for all communities to access theater in every form and engage in compelling conversations. programming: capture the collective imagination and…
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Carolina ballet's mission is to perform world-class professional ballet, entertaining and enlightening audiences in raleigh, the triangle region, the state of north carolina, and beyond. carolina ballet works to accomplish this mission by…
To present the best in the performing arts and, in partnership with others, share and employ the arts as a major catalyst to strengthen education, build community cohesiveness, and advance economic growth.
To produce volunteer-based theatrical events in the Charlotte, NC region.
As the region's leading safety net hospital, tampa general hospital is committed to providing area residents with excellent and compassionate health care ranging from the simplest to the most complex medical services. our shared purpose:…
Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is Walther Cancer Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
92 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 92 of the 162 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HEARTS AND HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds VISION CASHIERS INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc ↗
- Who funds Brooke's Place for Grieving Young People ↗
- Who funds The Village Green of Cashiers Inc ↗
- Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT EXPLORATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ROUJ CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Performing Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY PREP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLENVILLE-CASHIERS RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Highlands Community Child Development Center ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES EDUCATION ASST COUNSELING AND HOUSING OF MACON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORY MATTERS ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP CENTER OF HIGHLANDS ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS VALLEY PRESCHOOLINC ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN HOME FOR CHILDREN YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds VECINOS INC ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc · Pinellas Community Foundation · Al Williams Jr Family Foundation Inc · Florence Mauboules Charitable Trust · Dogwood Health Trust · The Double Eagle Foundation 4191-06-43 · Wnc Bridge Foundation · Mountain Findings Inc · Sarracenia Foundation Inc · The Simpson Foundation · The H Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Boley Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Family Resources Inc — 8% of income from government
- Brookwood Florida Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Great Explorations Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.