· Private foundation
Charles & Lois Marie Bright Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $388k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $996k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| THE VILLAGE NAC | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $144,795 |
| Individual grant recipient | $110,000 |
| NACOGDOCHES BOYS YOUTH BASEBALL | $109,365 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DEEP EAST TX | $100,000 |
| NACOGDOCHES COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE | $80,431 |
| NACOGDOCHES COUNTY HOSPITAL | $51,077 |
| LOVE INC | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HISTORIC NACOGDOCHES | $50,000 |
| GLORY GANG MINISTRIES | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $45,551 |
| NACOGDOCHES HERO FOUNDATION | $34,677 |
| STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY | $30,608 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
70 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TVThe Village Nac Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $800k · revenue +146% · 43% of their budget
- THTHE HELPING HOUSE3× · 2017–2025 · $158k · revenue +47%
- GGGLORY GANG MINISTRIES INC6× · 2018–2025 · $150k · revenue +14% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- NFNACOGDOCHES FEDERATION OF WOMENSone grant, 2022 · $300k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $150k
- KNKeep Nacogdoches Beautifulone grant, 2021 · $140k · revenue -88% · 34% of their budget
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.
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.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
Helping people to get high school diplomas
The church exists to glorify God and make disciples of Jesus Christ
To improve the health and quality of life for the people of texas and beyond through excellence in education, research, clinical care, community engagement and to provide national leadership in primary care.
Working togther to produce good fruit by reaching outdoors into god's creation.
Howard payne university is a christ-centered academic community dedicated to excellence by developing and equipping the whole person for intellectual inquiry, personal and professional integrity, and service to god and humanity.
The mission of hardin-simmons university is to be a community dedicated to providing excellence in education enlightened by christian faith and values.
Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.
The convencion bautista hispana de texas - the hispanic baptist convention of texas - convencion exists to serve its congregations and members to fulfill their god-inspired mission and vision. the vision of convencion is to become a family…
Equip women and men to be ministers and messengers of God's mission of reconciliation through academic excellence, personal transformation, and leadership development.
The university of mary hardin-baylor prepares students for leadership, service, and faith-informed discrenment in a global society. academic excellence, personal attention, broad-based scholarship and a commitment to a baptist vision for…
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 133 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Village Nac Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF NACOGDOCHES COUNT ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN WOMENS JOB CORP ↗
- Who funds SOLID FOUNDATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NACOGDOCHES BOYS YOUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE HELPING HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GLORY GANG MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Keep Nacogdoches Beautiful ↗
- Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds LeTourneau University ↗
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: East Texas Communities Foundation · The Callaway Foundation · Nacogdoches County United Way · Thurman Crawford Charitable Trust · The Elliott Family Foundation · Hood Family Foundation · San Antonio Livestock Exposition Educational Fund Inc · James I Perkins Family Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · The Pineywoods Foundation · Texas Higher Education Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles & Lois Marie Bright Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles & Lois Marie Bright Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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