California · Nonprofit
BRIGHTENING LIVES FOUNDATION INC
BRIGHTENING LIVES FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($31). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $183k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $31
- Net assets
- $443k
What Brightening Lives Foundation Inc does
Mission
At Brightening Lives Foundation we are dedicated to helping people around the world so as to reduce poverty and injustice to advance human achievement to promote global health education peace and to promote the sustainability of the environment on which life depends We are determined to do what we can to brighten the lives of people around the world We believe that all people deserve the chance to have healthy and productive lives
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Funded programs at KACF Foundation to help low income families in education attainment employment access to affordable housing and other benefits to long term economic stability
Funded programs at Asian Art Museum to provide access to art education to low income families and children
Funded scholarship programs for students in agriculture development at UC Davis
Provided funding to an additional 8 grantees none of which exceeded 5000
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Frank Ingeiselli
Chairman CEO Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5 → $16.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 BRIGHTENING LIVES FOUNDATION 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BRIGHTENING LIVES FOUNDATION 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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
BRIGHTENING LIVES FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,468 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
46%
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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Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIGHTENING LIVES FOUNDATION INC?
- BRIGHTENING LIVES FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $31 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($31). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRIGHTENING LIVES FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $31 in grants to BRIGHTENING LIVES FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHTENING LIVES FOUNDATION INC?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $31 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHTENING LIVES FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2025–2025), and the filings of 1 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