· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $290k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $25,000 |
| BIVONA CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| GOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| CHILDRENS INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER | $20,000 |
| EQUICENTER | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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 Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +165%
THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF GREATER ROCHESTER6× · 2018–2024 · $225k · revenue +365%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- GAGOLISANO AUTISM CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue +530% · 38% of their budget
- UHUR HOEKELMAN CENTERone grant, 2022 · $25k
- MCMARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +34%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
Provide a safe, caring, and dynamic environment to help nurture the development of pre-school aged children.
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.
To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs
Through supportive friendships, enhance the wellness of those with social and emotional barriers.
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.
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…
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.
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.
Partnering with parents to develop a child's head, heart and hands for Jesus Christ through God's Word and academic excellence.
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Child Advocacy Center of Greater Rochester and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 MARY CARIOLA CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds PARENTING VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds HOME START HOPE ↗
- Who funds EQUICENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER MUSEUM & SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF ROCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Building Brighter Days Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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