How much does Brightstar Credit Union give?

Brightstar Credit Union reported 8 grants totaling $135,359 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does Brightstar Credit Union fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (84%), Public Benefit (8%), Community Improvement (3%).

Who are Brightstar Credit Union's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Broward Education Foundation Inc ($336k), Broward College Foundation Inc ($118k), Florida Taxwatch Research Institute Inc ($50k).

Does Brightstar Credit Union fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Brightstar Credit Union?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Brightstar Credit Union based?

Brightstar Credit Union is based in FL.

Foundation Dossiers

Florida · Public charity

Brightstar Credit Union

Credit Union

$135k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 8
Grants FY2024: 6
Organizations funded FY2023: 50%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $55,359
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 6; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $907M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Brightstar Credit Union funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	8	$135k	38%
FY2023	6	$198k	50%
FY2022	3	$109k	33%
FY2021	4	$114k	50%
FY2020	2	$55k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$511kPublic Benefit$50kCommunity Improvement$19kMembership Benefit$10kHealth$10kAnimals$6kArts & Culture$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Broward Education Foundation Inc	$336,308	5	2%
Broward College Foundation Inc	$117,859	2	0%
Florida Taxwatch Research Institute Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Pembroke Pines Charter School Foundation	$28,500	4	6%
Miami Beach Community Kollel Inc	$22,000	2	n/a
Greater Pompano Beach Chamber of Commerce	$19,300	3	1%
League of Southeastern Credit Unions	$10,327	2	0%
My Family Matters Inc	$10,000	1	8%
Bcrea	$6,500	1	n/a
Humane Society of Broward County Inc	$5,500	1	0%

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All grantees of Brightstar Credit Union by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Broward Education Foundation Inc	$336,308	5	2%
Broward College Foundation Inc	$117,859	2	0%
Florida Taxwatch Research Institute Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Pembroke Pines Charter School Foundation	$28,500	4	6%
Miami Beach Community Kollel Inc	$22,000	2	n/a
Greater Pompano Beach Chamber of Commerce	$19,300	3	1%
League of Southeastern Credit Unions	$10,327	2	0%
My Family Matters Inc	$10,000	1	8%
Bcrea	$6,500	1	n/a
Humane Society of Broward County Inc	$5,500	1	0%
The Girl Choir of South Florida Inc	$5,000	1	2%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Brightstar Credit Union supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Brightstar Credit Union

How much does Brightstar Credit Union give?: Brightstar Credit Union reported 8 grants totaling $135,359 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Brightstar Credit Union fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (84%), Public Benefit (8%), Community Improvement (3%).
Who are Brightstar Credit Union's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Broward Education Foundation Inc ($336k), Broward College Foundation Inc ($118k), Florida Taxwatch Research Institute Inc ($50k).
Does Brightstar Credit Union fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Brightstar Credit Union?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Brightstar Credit Union based?: Brightstar Credit Union is based in FL.