The Bright Foundation
EIN 47-2581945 · files IRS 990-PF
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: 9 grants · $1.5m
Who it funds most
2 of its 4 grantees were funded in more than one year.
The Bright Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 4 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 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2023, filing 202403209349102940
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
A year with no bar has no grants on file yet: its returns may not be loaded. It is not a year without giving.
Its returns8 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202611349349102116 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202501359349100435 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202403209349102940 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202313189349102426 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202212699349100656 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202112739349100106 | IRS batch file |
| 2018 | IRS 990-PF | 201902469349100320 | IRS batch file |
| 2017 | IRS 990-PF | 201843199349102659 | 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
The Bright Foundation made 15 grants across 2017–2025, totalling $1.7m as filed.
- Grants
- 15
- Total, as filed
- $1.7m
- Years
- 2017–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| THE MCDONOUGH INSTITUTE | 4 | $776.0k |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | 3 | $533.0k |
| CITY TO SEA VIA NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST | 1 | $155.0k |
| LAUGHING AT MY NIGHTMARE | 2 | $112.0k |
| OUTFRONT MINNESOTA COMMUNITY SERVICES | 2 | $40.0k |
| THE BLAKE SCHOOL | 1 | $29.9k |
| FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SOCIETIES FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY (FASEB) | 1 | $10.0k |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION | 1 | $10.0k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 3 | $59.9k |
| 2018 | 1 | $20.0k |
| 2020 | 1 | $10.0k |
| 2021 | 2 | $132.0k |
| 2022 | 3 | $308.0k |
| 2023 | 1 | $377.0k |
| 2024 | 2 | $220.0k |
| 2025 | 2 | $539.0k |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-472581945. 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