· Private foundation
The Bright Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $473k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $510k
- $250k+1 grant · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $265,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CRISIS CENTER | $200,000 |
| UC MERCED CEB SUCCESS CENTER | $100,000 |
| UNITED SAMARITANS FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES | $55,000 |
| CSU STANISLAUS FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| SIERRA VISTA CHILD FAMILY SERVICES | $45,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF STANISLAUS COUN | $35,000 |
| UCSF SCHOOL OF MEDICINE-DEPT OF NEU | $35,000 |
| ST LUKES FAMILY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| OPERA MODESTOTOWNSEND | $30,000 |
| STANISLAUS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATIO | $30,000 |
| PARENT RESOURCE CENTER | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TRACY | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $456k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
39 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CCCHILDRENS CRISIS CENTER OF STANISLAUS COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $685k · revenue +83%
- USUNITED SAMARITANS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $460k · revenue +85%
- CFCENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $285k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- CSCSUS STANISLAUS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $70k
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY - STANIone grant, 2017 · $30k
- VCVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL - MODESTone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
A general practice medical clinical providing medical services to individuals and families in modesto who do not qualify for any other free government health care programs and have no health insurance and cannot afford to pay for their…
The mission of Family Services is to help children, adults, and families throughout Tulare County heal from violence and thrive in healthy relationships. Family Services will accomplish this mission through direct services, advocacy,…
Operation of a foster family care agency
The student union, through its programs and facilities, is a focal point of the campus through assisting in the retention and development of students while encouraging a deeper understanding and appreciation of cultural pluralism, gender…
The council coordinated the efforts of affiliated local unions and assisted their organizations work, bettering the working conditions of their members.
Pajaro Valley Shelter Services provides families with a path toward self-sufficient futures through short-and longer-term housing and supportive services.
Central california legal services is a private, not-for-profit, public interest law firm established for the purpose of providing free civil legal assistance to low-income individuals, families, organizations and communities.
The vision of Stanislaus Community Foundation is that Stanislaus County is a community of choice where people live, work and thrive. To achieve this vision, Stanislaus Community Foundation's mission is to steward charitable resources and…
The csusm foundation supports and promotes the university's mission by cultivating and maximizing private charitable investment, stewarding resources carefully, creating and nurturing meaningful regional relationships and partnerships,…
Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…
Contra Costa Regional Health Foundation eliminates barriers and enhances the capabilities of Contra Costa Health Services and the community to improve the saftey, health, and wellness of every Contra Costa County resident.
To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Contra Costa Family Justice Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Childrens Crisis Center of Stanislaus County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 48 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 CHILDRENS CRISIS CENTER OF STANISLAUS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds UNITED SAMARITANS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ST LUKES FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE OF MODESTO INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY STANISLAUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRACY ↗
- Who funds STANISLAUS LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION STANISLAUS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Modesto Junior College Foundation ↗
- Who funds PARENT RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MODESTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MCPHS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds STANISLAUS FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUTTVILLE ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Stanislaus County ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF STANISLAUS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OAKDALE EQUINE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN VETERANS FIRST ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WEST BALLET ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CONTRA COSTA FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
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: Stanislaus Community Foundation · Stewart Family Foundation · The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation · United Way of Stanislaus County · Reed Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · David E & Mary C Gallo Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 The Bright Family Foundation 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.
- Mcphs University — 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.
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