Kentucky · Nonprofit
BRIGHTSIDE FOUNDATION INC
BRIGHTSIDE FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,975 to it, the largest being BROWN-FORMAN FOUNDATION ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $455k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $405k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Brightside Foundation Inc does
Mission
Brightside foundation works hand-in-hand with brightside, inc. To solicit and oversee privately-raised funds in support of the environmentally focused activities of brightside inc. Through its fiduciary role, the foundation ensures that donated funds are used as the donor intended.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
9,618 volunteers particpated in brightside litter abatement and cleanliness activities including neighborhood cleanups, sweep & sip events, spring and fall commuity-wide cleanups, and the trash for cash program.
$47,304 spent31% of program spendingTwenty one (21) mini botanical gardens in public medians were maintained across metro louisville and eighty-seven (87) new canopy trees were planted to increase louisville's tree canopies and beautify various neighborhoods throughout the city along with other beautification and planting projects. Tree planting projects include three years of maintenance.
$85,665 spent57% of program spendingOne hundred and forty four (144) educational outreach presentations were made through metro louisville reaching 4,291 students
$18,484 spent12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $151,453.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.6M to $2.1M (+28%).
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 41% · 2018 15% · 2019 25% · 2020 31% · 2021 27% · 2023 36% · 2024 33% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
110% of BRIGHTSIDE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% 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
Michelle Black White
Executive director
Board chair
Louis Straub Ii
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $7k → $38k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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 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.
How concentrated its funding is
BRIGHTSIDE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2019 99% · 2020 80% · 2021 71% · 2022 79% · 2023 67% — 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
40% of BRIGHTSIDE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
100% of BRIGHTSIDE FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k 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
BRIGHTSIDE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like BRIGHTSIDE FOUNDATION 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
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 FOUNDATION 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 FOUNDATION INC?
- BRIGHTSIDE FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $404,975 to it, the largest being BROWN-FORMAN FOUNDATION ($200,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIGHTSIDE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $404,975 in grants to BRIGHTSIDE FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIGHTSIDE FOUNDATION INC?
- BROWN-FORMAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIGHTSIDE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 8 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