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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 FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.6MHuman Services$606kEducation$583kYouth Development$472kCrime & Legal$275kPhilanthropy$75kRecreation & Sports$75kFood & Nutrition$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $290k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAYSTAR$125,000
STRONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$100,000
CENTER FOR YOUTH$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
THE CHILDRENS AGENDA$35,000
GREATER ROCHESTER SUMMER LEARNING ASSOC$30,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$25,000
BIVONA CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$25,000
GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$25,000
BELOVED ASHEVILLE$25,000
GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$25,000
CHILDRENS INSTITUTE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER$20,000
CENTER FOR YOUTH$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $816k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE FINGERLAKES INC: $70k → 10%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF THE FINGERLAKES INC: $35k → 10%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $70k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $50k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $50k → 14%CENTER FOR YOUTH: $50k → 14%CENTER FOR YOUTH: $50k → 14%CENTER FOR YOUTH: $50k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $50k → 14%THE CHILDRENS AGENDA: $35k → 14%THE CHILDRENS AGENDA: $35k → 14%THE CHILDRENS AGENDA: $35k → 14%THE CHILDRENS AGENDA: $30k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 14%THE CHILDRENS AGENDA: $30k → 14%THE CHILDRENS AGENDA: $4k → 14%THE CENTER FOR YOUTH SERVICES: $15k → 14%CENTER FOR YOUTH: $10k → 14%THE CHILDRENS AGENDA: $2k → 14%CENTER FOR YOUTH: $10k → 14%WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $20k → 14%WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $15k → 14%WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%PARENTING VILLAGE: $10k → 14%YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $10k → 14%HOME START HOPE: $20k → 14%PARENTING VILLAGE: $10k → 14%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 24 repeat orgs$528k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
16

Total granted

$3.3M
$497k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+34%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • The Center for Youth Services Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +160%
  • THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER
    6× · 2018–2024 · $225k · revenue +365%
  • UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • GA
    GOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +530% · 38% of their budget
  • MC
    MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +34%
  • UH
    UR HOEKELMAN CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
Rochester Child Care Center Inc

The center strives to provide a range of services that support working parents while fostering the emotional, social, physical and intellectual growth of their children. special consideration is given to low income families and families…

Human Services
2
Community Child Care Center of the Third Ward Inc

Provide a safe, caring, and dynamic environment to help nurture the development of pre-school aged children.

Human Services
3
Rochester General Health System

Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.

Health
4
Rochester Contemporary Art Center Inc

To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs

Arts & Culture
5
Compeer Rochester Inc

Through supportive friendships, enhance the wellness of those with social and emotional barriers.

Health
6
Rochester General College of Health Careers

The rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.

Education
7
Suny Cortland Child Care Center Inc

The suny cortland child care center is dedicated to providing affordable child care for the children of the college's employees and students, which meets the highest nationally recognized standards. qualified staff provide an educational…

Human Services
8
Rochester Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children Inc

To provide the best opportunities for a bright future by repectfully partnering with children and their families, advocating for their health, well-being and safety, and working to heal and strengthen relationships.

Crime & Legal
9
Children's Center of New Paltz Inc

Operate and maintain a day care center for children of students, faculty, and staff of the state university of new york at new paltz, and for children of the greater new paltz community.

Human Services
10
Rochester Christian School Inc

Partnering with parents to develop a child's head, heart and hands for Jesus Christ through God's Word and academic excellence.

Education
11
The Community Place of Greater Rochester Inc

The community place operates early childhood daycare programs, aging services, youth and family, a senior citizen nutrition program, and various other health and human service programs to improve the quality of life for children and…

Human Services
12
Hearing and Speech Center of Rochester Inc

To preserve the uniquely human right to enjoy communication for life by helping children and adults achieve dreams through innovative, caring speech and hearing services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Child Advocacy Center of Greater Rochester; the most unlike its peers is Parenting Village Inc. 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 43 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AL SIGL COMMUNITY OF AGENCIES: $600,000 · OtherAL SIGL COMMUNITY OF AGENCIESDAYSTAR: $225,000 · OtherDAYSTARRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $150,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESGOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $125,000 · OtherGOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITALIndividual grant recipient: $115,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $75,000 · OtherFOODLINK INC: $65,000 · Other+18 more: $321,703 · Other+18 moreThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $425,000 · Human ServicesThe Center for Youth Se…The Children's Agenda Inc: $171,000 · Human ServicesThe Children's Agenda I…FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF THE FINGER LAKES INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY COUNSELING SERVI…WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesWILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENC…+3 more: $60,000 · Human Services+3 moreGreater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc: $380,000 · EducationGreater Rochester…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF ROC…+2 more: $18,000 · EducationGOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INC: $300,000 · PhilanthropyGOLISANO …SETTLEMENT HOUSES OF ROCHESTER FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $225,000 · Crime & LegalChild Advocacy Center of the Finger Lakes: $50,000 · Crime & LegalCAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC: $123,762 · Recreation & SportsCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · HealthEQUICENTER INC: $20,000 · Health
Other$1,676,703Human Services$816,000Education$598,000Philanthropy$312,000Crime & Legal$275,000Recreation & Sports$123,762Health$70,000

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 budgetThe Center for Youth Services Inc: $425,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetGreater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc: $380,000 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetGOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INC: $300,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER: $225,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Agenda Inc: $171,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetCAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC: $123,762 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF THE FINGER LAKES INC: $105,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFOODLINK INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRochester Childfirst Network: $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBELOVED ASHEVILLE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368): $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEQUICENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOME START HOPE: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetROCHESTER SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM: $5,980 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF ONTARIO COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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.

  • Who funds The Center for Youth Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds Greater Rochester Summer Learning Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds GOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Agenda Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAMP GOOD DAYS AND SPECIAL TIMES INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF THE FINGER LAKES INC ↗
  • Who funds FOODLINK INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Childfirst Network ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Child Advocacy Center of the Finger Lakes ↗
  • Who funds SAINT'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
  • Who funds MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PARENTING VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
  • Who funds EQUICENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HOME START HOPE ↗
  • Who funds ROCHESTER SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM ↗

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.

Rochester Area Commun…United Way of Greater…Greater Rochester Hea…Max and Marian Farash…Esl Charitable Founda…Paychex Charitable Fo…Daisy Marquis Jones F…The Florence M Muller…Rochester Area Commun…Charles J & Burton S …The Polisseni Foundat…Ames-Amzalak Memorial…
Rochester Area Community FoundationNY39.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc 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 43 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-PF 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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