New York · Private foundation
Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $626k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 16 | $601k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $490k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $473k | 38% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $570k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $515k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $394k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $444k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 15 | $335k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Center for Youth Services Inc | $425,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc | $380,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Golisano Autism Center Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 38% |
| The Child Advocacy Center of Greater Rochester | $225,000 | 6 | 3% |
| University of Rochester | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Children's Agenda Inc | $171,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Camp Good Days and Special Times Inc | $123,762 | 5 | 3% |
| Family Counseling Service of the Finger Lakes Inc | $105,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Foodlink Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Willow Domestic Violence Center of Greater Rochester Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Rochester Area Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Esl Charitable Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · The Florence M Muller Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Charles J & Burton S August Family Foundation · The Polisseni Foundation Inc · Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust
How this is measured
Compare Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc
- How much does Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc give?
- Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $625,516 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (42%), Human Services (16%), Education (15%).
- Who are Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Center for Youth Services Inc ($425k), Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc ($380k), Golisano Autism Center Inc ($300k).
- Does Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rochester Area Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc, Greater Rochester Health Foundation.
- Where is Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc based?
- Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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