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Brightstar Credit Union
Credit Union
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of your 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 +27% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- PPPEMBROKE PINES CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $29k · revenue +120%
- GPGREATER POMPANO BEACH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE3× · 2022–2024 · $19k · revenue +41%
- LOLEAGUE OF SOUTHEASTERN CREDIT UNIONS2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- FTFLORIDA TAXWATCH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +20%
- BBCREAone grant, 2023 · $7k
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.
To strengthen the larger community by developing and implementing programs and services that lead to institutional enhancement and greater educational advancement.
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…
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.
Promote floridas higher education system
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Community first credit union of florida's mission is to provide the highest in quality financial solutions for every stage of life.
Enhancing business as florida's resource center for leadership, knowledge, and advocacy.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Pompano Beach Chamber of Commerce and 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.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 Broward Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA TAXWATCH RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PEMBROKE PINES CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER POMPANO BEACH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF SOUTHEASTERN CREDIT UNIONS ↗
- Who funds MY FAMILY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIRL CHOIR OF SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
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.
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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 Brightstar Credit Union 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Girl Choir of South Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
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.