Georgia · Nonprofit
BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC
BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,446,217 to it, the largest being GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ($627,722). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $728k
What Brightside Child and Familiy Advocacy Inc does
Mission
Brightside child and family advocacy provides services to prevent child abuse and neglect by strengthening and supporting healthy family relationships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Provided trained, screened and supervised volunteers who advocated for the best interst of abused and neglected children in juvenile court deprivation proceedings. Bright house provided court-mandated supervised visitation and family support services in a home-like setting.
$1,253,832 spent100% of program spendingThe brighter futures program supports older youth transitioning out of foster care by providing them with the resources, guidance, and skills needed to achieve independence, stability, and long-term success.
Pca greater savannah program strives to prevent abuse and neglect of georgia's children through educaiton, advocacy and the promotion of evidence-based prevention strategies.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,253,832.
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 2024 to 2025, from $543k to $831k (+53%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 66% · 2018 61% · 2019 64% · 2020 59% · 2021 49% · 2022 40% · 2024 48% · 2025 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Katherine Blair
Executive director
Board chair
Kathy Ledvina
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $129k → $150k.
7 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY 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
BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 64% · 2019 45% · 2020 53% · 2021 29% · 2022 33% · 2023 47% — 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
75% of BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
75% of BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $326k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY 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 BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC?
- BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC (Georgia) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,446,217 to it, the largest being GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC ($627,722). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $1,446,217 in grants to BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC?
- GEORGIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC is the largest funder on record, with $627,722 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHTSIDE CHILD AND FAMILIY ADVOCACY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing