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Bright Future Fund
Washington, DC · EIN 93-4678619. Reported 53 grants totalling $182.1M to 53 organizations across tax years 2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 53 distinct organizations, with 11% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $2,000,000. Half of what it reported fell between $400,000 and $4,000,000; the smallest was $100,000 and the largest $20.8M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Future Forward USA Action | Washington, DC | $20.8M | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Our American Future Action | Washington, DC | $20.0M | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Orgs | Washington, DC | $14.5M | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rapid Resist Action | Chicago, IL | $12.4M | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Working America Education Fund | Washington, DC | $10.0M | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Workmoney Foundation Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $10.0M | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Forward Majority Action | Washington, DC | $7,790,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Voter Information | Washington, DC | $6,700,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Workmoney Inc | Milwaukee, WI | $6,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pro-Democracy Campaign | Foxboro, MA | $6,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Majority Forward | Washington, DC | $5,350,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Focus for Democracy Action | Camarillo, CA | $4,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pivotpac | Brooklyn, NY | $4,330,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Future Now Action | Washington, DC | $4,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Local Jobs & Economic Development Fund | Dover, DE | $3,750,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sixteen Thirty Fund | Washington, DC | $3,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| People's Action Power | Washington, DC | $3,450,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Democracyfirst | Washington, DC | $2,940,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ffpac | Washington, DC | $2,740,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Michigan Civic Education Fund | Madison Hts, MI | $2,700,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Business Forward Foundation | Washington, DC | $2,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Civic Nation | Washington, DC | $2,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Focus for Democracy Fund | Washington, DC | $2,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hopewell Fund | Washington, DC | $2,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United for Democracy | Foxborough, MA | $2,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Fair Democracy | Washington, DC | $2,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lexington Observer Inc | Lexington, MA | $2,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| All Voting Is Local | Washington, DC | $1,500,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Clear Choice Action Inc | Boston, MA | $1,250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Economic Opportunity Fund | Washington, DC | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Public Rights Project | Oakland, CA | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| State Engagement Fund | Raleigh, NC | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vote Rev Action Fund | Washington, DC | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Center for Community Change Action | Washington, DC | $887,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Civitech Inc | Austin, TX | $880,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Fund | Washington, DC | $610,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| America Votes | Washington, DC | $550,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Equislabs | San Francisco, CA | $470,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Civic Nation Action | Washington, DC | $450,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Act Now Project | Covina, CA | $400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Movement Strategy Center Action Fund | Oakland, CA | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 21ST Century Fund | Lansing, MI | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Battle Born Progress | Henderson, NV | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Democracy Planning & Enhancement Fund | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Democracy Sentry | Foxboro, MA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ground Game Texas | Manchaca, TX | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vote Forward | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| House Majority Forward | Washington, DC | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Value My Vote | Silver Spring, MD | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Southern Vision Alliance | Durham, NC | $120,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mtg Research Inc | Washington, DC | $110,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bfd Pac | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Western State Strategies | Portland, OR | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 of 53 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Where its money goes
66% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $2,000,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in District of Columbia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Bright Future Fund's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2023-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 1717 N Street Nw Suite 1, Washington, DC, 20036.
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