· Private foundation
The Brightwater Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k10 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $333k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Global Impact | $100,000 |
| New York Presbyterian Hospital | $50,000 |
| Weill Cornell Medical College | $50,000 |
| White Plains Hospital | $45,000 |
| ACLU | $40,000 |
| New Yorkers for Children | $40,000 |
| Bigger Picture Community Fund | $30,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | $25,000 |
| Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital | $20,000 |
| Fool Proof Foundation | $20,000 |
| Carver Center | $15,000 |
| Marshall Project | $15,000 |
| Smiletrain | $13,000 |
| IFCO Alliance for Families Justice | $10,000 |
| Vera Institue of Justice | $10,000 |
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, $278k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 25 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
- RHROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2020 · $753k · revenue +49%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +12%- WPWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center5× · 2021–2025 · $200k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- SCSchwab Charitable Donor Advised Fund for Jarecki Family Philanthropic Fundone grant, 2019 · $185k
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR REASON AND JUSTICE INCone grant, 2017 · $119k
THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +63%
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.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…
The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
Free press action fund fights for your rights to connect and communicate. we fight to save the free and open internet, curb runaway media consolidation, protect press freedom, and promote digital civil rights. we believe that change…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Children's rights is a national advocacy organization that investigates, exposes, and combats violations of the rights of children. through strategic advocacy and civil rights impact litigation, children's rights holds governments…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.
How this is measured
60 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. 60 of the 82 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 ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FALCONWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Eisenhower Project Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds White Plains Hospital Medical Center ↗
- Who funds NEW YORKERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds IONA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Goodnation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR REASON AND JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR STUDY OF RESPONSIVE LAW ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MASTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF WHITE PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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: Weissman Family Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Brightwater Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Brightwater Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- New England Life Flight Inc: 5% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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