· Private foundation
The Bright Family 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 $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 |
| STANISLAUS COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATIO | $30,000 |
| OPERA MODESTOTOWNSEND | $30,000 |
| ST LUKES FAMILY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TRACY | $25,000 |
| KVIE - CHANNEL 6 | $25,000 |
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 48 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 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 MODESTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PARENT RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bright Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bright Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mcphs University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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