Brightfocus Foundation
EIN 23-7337229 · files IRS Form 990, Schedule I
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 41 grants · $10.9m
Who it funds most
57 of its 99 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Brightfocus Foundation's own IRS Form 990, Schedule I returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 40 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990 Part VII, tax year 2024, filing 202522969349300607
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Return | Assets, year end | Grants paid | Charitable spending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Form 990 | $65.1m | — | $53.3m |
| 2023 | Form 990 | $63.5m | — | $46.2m |
As filed, in US dollars. Assets at fair market value where the return gives it.
Its returns5 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202522969349300607 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202413409349300636 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202302219349301750 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202202169349300015 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202112149349300701 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Brightfocus Foundation made 278 grants across 2020–2024, totalling $62.0m as filed.
- Grants
- 278
- Total, as filed
- $62.0m
- Years
- 2020–2024
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | 11 | $2.9m |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | 12 | $2.4m |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | 7 | $2.0m |
| ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI | 8 | $2.0m |
| MAYO CLINIC JACKSONVILLE | 8 | $1.9m |
| INDIANA UNIVERSITY | 8 | $1.9m |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | 6 | $1.6m |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE | 9 | $1.6m |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | 5 | $1.3m |
| OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY | 3 | $1.2m |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | 3 | $1.1m |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | 6 | $1.1m |
| THE JACKSON LABORATORY | 3 | $1.0m |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO | 4 | $982.0k |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA | 3 | $850.0k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 70 | $16.0m |
| 2021 | 71 | $16.0m |
| 2022 | 53 | $11.0m |
| 2023 | 33 | $7.1m |
| 2024 | 51 | $11.8m |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-237337229. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified