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Brightstar Credit Union at a glance

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Brightstar Credit Union

Credit Union

$135k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$511kPublic Benefit$50kCommunity Improvement$19kMembership Benefit$10kHealth$10kAnimals$6kArts & Culture$5k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$907M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Broward College Foundation Sponsorship$55,359
Broward Education Foundation$33,500
Miami Beach Community Kollel$12,000
My Family Matters Foundation$10,000
Greater Pompano Beach Chamber$7,500
Pembroke Pines Charter$6,500
Humane Society of Broward$5,500
The Girl Choir of South Florida$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%My Family Matters Foundation: $10k → 11%Pembroke Pines Charter: $7k → 13%Miami Beach Community Kollel: $12k → 15%Florida Tax Watch: $50k → 19%Pembroke Pines Charter: $7k → 13%Miami Beach Community Kollel: $10k → 15%League of Southeastern Credit Unions (LSCU) - (CUPAC): $5k → 19%The Girl Choir of South Florida: $5k → 13%League of Southeastern Credit Unions (LSCU) -: $5k → 19%Broward Education Foundation: $107k → 13%Broward Education Foundation: $89k → 13%Broward College Foundation Sponsorship: $63k → 13%Broward College Foundation Sponsorship: $55k → 13%Broward Education Foundation: $50k → 13%Broward Education Foundation: $50k → 13%Broward Education Foundation: $34k → 13%BCCPTA PTSA: $8k → 13%Pembroke Pines Charter School Foundation Inc: $9k → 13%Pembroke Pines Charter: $7k → 13%Humane Society of Broward: $6k → 13%BCREA: $7k → 13%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$534k · 6 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$534k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+27%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationMembership BenefitPhilanthropyHealthAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • PP
    PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $29k · revenue +120%
  • GP
    GREATER POMPANO BEACH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $19k · revenue +41%
  • LO
    LEAGUE OF SOUTHEASTERN CREDIT UNIONS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • FT
    FLORIDA TAXWATCH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +27%
  • B
    BCREA
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
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
Florida Education Fund Inc

To strengthen the larger community by developing and implementing programs and services that lead to institutional enhancement and greater educational advancement.

Education
2
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education
3
Florida Credit Union

Income from credit union membership and from investement of member funds provide the foundation from which the organization can function and provide service to its restricted membership.

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4
Florida Board of Governors Foundation Inc

Promote floridas higher education system

Education
5
Florida College System Foundation

To secure and manage public and private resources to provide optimal benefit to florida's 28 colleges, thereby supporting students who are seeking a post-secondary education that will positively impact their lives and the future of their…

Education
6
Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc

The mission of the florida atlantic university foundation inc. is to encourage, promote, and provide funds and other resources for the benefit of florida atlantic university (a part of the florida state university system) in furtherance of…

Education
7
Bioflorida Inc

From concept to consumer, bioflorida is the premier source for supporting the florida life sciences industry. we provide comprehensive resources and advocacy, while fostering a thriving community that leads in innovation and groundbreaking…

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8
G-Star School of the Arts Inc

The organization is a florida charter school as provided for and by florida statutes. the school is authorized by and under contract with the palm beach county florida school district. the school provides education for high school students…

Education
9
Florida Polytechnic University Foundation Inc

Established to help sustain the mission of florida polytechnic university to educate students emphasizing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem) in an innovative, technology-rich, and interdisciplinary learning environment.

Education
10
Community First Credit Union of Florida

Community first credit union of florida's mission is to provide the highest in quality financial solutions for every stage of life.

—
11
Florida Chamber of Commerce Inc

Enhancing business as florida's resource center for leadership, knowledge, and advocacy.

—
12
Florida College Inc

Florida college, as a private, independent liberal arts college, provides a comprehensive undergraduate experience designed to develop students spiritually, mentally, physically, and socially; to integrate into the students' lives the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Pompano Beach Chamber of Commerce; the most unlike its peers is Pembroke Pines Charter School Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Broward Education Foundation Inc: $336,308 · EducationBroward Education Foundation IncFLORIDA TAXWATCH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · OtherFLORIDA TAXWATCH RESEAR…PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $28,500 · OtherPEMBROKE PINES CHARTER …MIAMI BEACH COMMUNITY KOLLEL INC: $22,000 · OtherMIAMI BEACH COMMUNITY K…GREATER POMPANO BEACH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $19,300 · OtherGREATER POMPANO BEACH C…BCREA: $6,500 · OtherBROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $117,859 · PhilanthropyBROWARD COLLEGE FOUND…LEAGUE OF SOUTHEASTERN CREDIT UNIONS: $10,327 · Membership BenefitMY FAMILY MATTERS INC: $10,000 · HealthHUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $5,500 · AnimalsTHE GIRL CHOIR OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$336,308Other$126,300Philanthropy$117,859Membership Benefit$10,327Health$10,000Animals$5,500Arts & Culture$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBroward Education Foundation Inc: $336,308 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $117,859 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFLORIDA TAXWATCH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPEMBROKE PINES CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $28,500 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetGREATER POMPANO BEACH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $19,300 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLEAGUE OF SOUTHEASTERN CREDIT UNIONS: $10,327 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMY FAMILY MATTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIRL CHOIR OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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.

Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Girl Choir of South Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
1report 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.

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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home