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Brighton Legacy Foundation

The organization works on projects that provide educational, social, or cultural services to the citizens of brighton, colorado and makes funds available to other tax exempt organizations that do the same.

$212k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $173,820, the rows itemized in this filing. The $212,070 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $38,250 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 $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $153k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALMOST HOME INC$25,000
BRIGHTON EMPLOYEE CHARITIES$15,820
PENNOCK CENTER FOR COUNSELING$15,000
ST AUGUSTINE FOOD PANTRY$15,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKES$12,000
BROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC$10,000
RALSTON HOUSE$10,000
A PRECCIOUS CHILD$10,000
RICHARD LAMBERT FOUNDATION$10,000
FOOD FOR HOPE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SPARKLING KINDNESS$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
BENIEFITS IN ACTION$6,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%A PRECCIOUS CHILD: $10k → 5%BENIEFITS IN ACTION: $6k → 7%SPARKLING KINDNESS: $8k → 10%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 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
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
2
Urban Outreach Denver

Urban Outreach Denver exists to connect people to God and to a community of support by caring for both short-term and long-term needs in the areas of food, clothing, shlter, medical care, education and job preparation.

Human Services
3
Giving Hope Inc

Homelessness prevention

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4
Just Love Your Neighbor

Food insecurity and housing needs

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5
Call Primrose

To compassionately address the issues of hunger and food insecurity within our community by providing free, healthy groceries to those in need.

Food & Nutrition
6
Pinnacle Resource Center

The mission of pinnacle resource center is to provide emergency shelter, food, clothing, and supportive services to individuals and families experiencing homelessness and poverty, with the goal of promoting stability and self-sufficiency.

Housing & Shelter
7
The Arvada Community Food Bank dba Community Table

A community in which people have access to food and resources to foster self-sufficiency

Food & Nutrition
8
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
9
Feeding Our Community Ourselves Inc

Build community by providing nutritious and delicious meals to the people of Fort Collins regardless of their ability to pay while using mostly local, organic, and sustainably grown ingredients

Food & Nutrition
10
People Help Exchange Inc

Food Pantry to combat hunger and prevent homelessness.

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Pinnacle Prevention Corp

To cultivate a just food system and opportunities for joyful movement.

Food & Nutrition
12
Bountiful Basket Food Shelf of Eastern Carver County

Nourishing neighbors, inspiring hope, and supporting families on their road to self-sufficiency.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Precious Child Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sparkling Kindness. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIGHTON EMPLOYEE CHARITIES: $15,820 · OtherBRIGHTON EMPLOYEE CHARITIESPENNOCK CENTER FOR COUNSELING: $15,000 · OtherPENNOCK CENTER FOR COUNSELINGST AUGUSTINE FOOD PANTRY: $15,000 · OtherST AUGUSTINE FOOD PANTRYIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $7,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAlmost Home Inc: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterAlmost Home IncBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT…A PRECIOUS CHILD INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesA PRECIOUS CHIL…Sparkling Kindness: $7,500 · Human ServicesSparkling Kindn…BENEFITS IN ACTION: $6,000 · Human ServicesBENEFITS IN ACT…FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $12,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF T…FOOD FOR HOPE: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR HOPERICHARD LAMBERT FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyRalston House: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$73,320Housing & Shelter$35,000Human Services$23,500Food & Nutrition$22,000Philanthropy$10,000Community Improvement$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlmost Home Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPENNOCK CENTER FOR COUNSELING: $15,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR HOPE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBROTHERS REDEVELOPMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Brighton Community Hospital AssociationCO20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Brighton Community Hospital Association · Anschutz Family Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brighton Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brighton Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Brighton Legacy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Brighton Legacy Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 15 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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