Iowa · Nonprofit
The Bright Foundation
The Bright Foundation (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $410,000 to it, the largest being MARY K AND DANIEL M KELLY FAMILY FOUNDATION C/O DAN KELLY ($410,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $410k
- Net assets
- $33M
What The Bright Foundation does
Program
As a scholarship provider the mission of The Bright Foundation is to empower scholars to launch careers through the successfull access and completion of college degrees.
$2,764,257 spent
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-PF.
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 2021 to 2022, from $36M to $34M (−4%).
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.
Board chair
Thomas E Press
Chairman & Managing Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $110k → $100k.
From the IRS filings of The Bright Foundation’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 The Bright Foundation's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
The Bright Foundation has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The Bright Foundation
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Bright Foundation: 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 The Bright Foundation?
- The Bright Foundation (Iowa) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $410,000 to it, the largest being MARY K AND DANIEL M KELLY FAMILY FOUNDATION C/O DAN KELLY ($410,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Bright Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $410,000 in grants to The Bright Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Bright Foundation?
- MARY K AND DANIEL M KELLY FAMILY FOUNDATION C/O DAN KELLY is the largest funder on record, with $410,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Bright Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 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