California · Nonprofit
BRIGHT ICE INITIATIVE INC
BRIGHT ICE INITIATIVE INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,916 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($42,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $123k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $77k
- Net assets
- $27k
What Bright Ice Initiative Inc does
Mission
The purpose is to preserve glacial ice through low impact strategies that enhance the reflectivity of ice and snow. Our mission is grounded in partnership-with Indigenous communities, local leaders, and scientific collaborators-ensuring that our work honors place-based knowledge while directly benefiting those most at risk. Guided by humility and a commitment to do no harm, we act with care and precision in the global effort to slow glacial loss.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The organization has done small scale research testing on glacial ice and pond ice in several locations in us, canada, iceland, and india. Testing is done to determine the effectiveness of slowing ice melt and for environmental safety.
$68,287 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $68,287.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Leslie Field
President CEO and boardchair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BRIGHT ICE INITIATIVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BRIGHT ICE INITIATIVE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BRIGHT ICE INITIATIVE INC.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
82% of BRIGHT ICE INITIATIVE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $14k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $63k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BRIGHT ICE INITIATIVE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIGHT ICE INITIATIVE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIGHT ICE INITIATIVE INC?
- BRIGHT ICE INITIATIVE INC (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $76,916 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($42,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRIGHT ICE INITIATIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $76,916 in grants to BRIGHT ICE INITIATIVE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHT ICE INITIATIVE INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $42,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHT ICE INITIATIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing