New York · Nonprofit
BRIGHTER GREEN INC
BRIGHTER GREEN INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,663,485 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,138,190). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $599k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $308k
What Brighter Green Inc does
Mission
Brighter green is a public policy action tank that works to raise awareness of and encourage policy action that span the environment, animals, and sustainability. Based in new york, brighter green works in the u.s. And internationally with a focus on the countries of the global south and a strong commitment to ensuring and expanding equity and rights.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The asia program components encompass policy analysis, knowledge exchange, capacity development, public education, and cooperation on sustainable food and agriculture systems and related issues. The program co-hosted an on- and offline summit; co-organized dialogues on food, climate change, animal welfare, public health and livelihoods; and produced varied multimedia content. Program activities reach hundreds of thousands of people in the asia-pacific region, the u.s., and many other countries, through live and website events, live streaming, and social media.
$266,219 spent$322,000 earned by the program56% of program spendingThe equitable food systems program led and collaborated on research, capacity development, webinars and public education, as well media outreach on food, climate, animal welfare, and public health with a focus on sub- saharan africa and the global south. This included a just transition food systems project with ngo partners as well as writing and outreach. This work reached several thousand people, off- and online, and varied stakeholders spanning academics, policymakers, philanthropists, students, and the public.
$183,360 spent$180,320 earned by the program39% of program spendingThe media outreach and narrative framing program works to focus greater attention on animals, wild and domestic, in food systems, climate change and biodiversity reporting. Work includes supporting journalism and media projects, engaging with reporters and editors, and development of new narratives and narrative strategies with a focus in the u.s, latin america, and mexico. This work reached hundreds of thousands of people through online articles, videos, and dialogues, and served researchers, advocates, media organizations, students, and the public.
$24,609 spent$25,000 earned by the program5% of program spendingGlobal climate advocacy the global climate advocacy program focused in 2023 on policy support for climate-compatible food systems and agricultural policies. This included research, writing, network collaboration, and education/outreach through strategy dialogues and the food4climate pavilion at cop28. This work reached thousands of people directly (on- and offline), and tens of thousands more through research, policy/advocacy collaborations, articles, and webinars/information-sharing.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $474,188.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $112k to $322k (+188%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
92% of BRIGHTER GREEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $73k → $535k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 BRIGHTER GREEN 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
BRIGHTER GREEN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 BRIGHTER GREEN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 83% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 49% · 2022 77% · 2023 42% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
25% of BRIGHTER GREEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
87% of BRIGHTER GREEN 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 $342k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
BRIGHTER GREEN INC has grown faster than half of the 4,264 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BRIGHTER GREEN INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIGHTER GREEN 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 BRIGHTER GREEN INC?
- BRIGHTER GREEN INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,663,485 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,138,190). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRIGHTER GREEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $2,663,485 in grants to BRIGHTER GREEN INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHTER GREEN INC?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,138,190 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHTER GREEN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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