West Virginia · Private foundation
The Bright Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $324k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,250
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $885k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Bright Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $323k | 78% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $7k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $6k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $7k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $6k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $6k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $7k | 43% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $7k | 71% |
98% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Health$325kEducation$51kHuman Services$4kRecreation & Sports$2kYouth Development$1kArts & Culture$1kPhilanthropy$1kReligion$950Other$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summersville Christmas Store | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Summersville Youth Athletics Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Family Center Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Knights of Columbus | $450 | 2 | n/a |
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($379k), not named here.
About The Bright Foundation Inc
- How much does The Bright Foundation Inc give?
- The Bright Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $324,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bright Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (84%), Education (13%), Human Services (1%).
- Who are The Bright Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Summersville Christmas Store ($3k), Summersville Youth Athletics Inc ($2k), The Family Center Inc ($1k).
- Does The Bright Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bright Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is The Bright Foundation Inc based?
- The Bright Foundation Inc is based in WV.
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