Building Bright Futures
Williston, VT · EIN 45-2392293. Reported 72 grants totalling $3,077,260 to 60 organizations across tax years 2023-2024, 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. For Building Bright Futures, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B90) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 60 distinct organizations, with 8% 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 much its list changes. 75% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $36,536. Half of what it reported fell between $20,866 and $49,167; the smallest was $5,269 and the largest $194,256. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern Medical Center Inc | St Albans, VT | $234,337 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Seed & Sew | Burlington, VT | $194,256 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Janet S Munt Family Room | Burlington, VT | $190,838 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Myers Prouty Childrens Campuses Inc | Shaftsbury, VT | $117,780 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc | Burlington, VT | $96,377 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lil Sunshine Child Care Center Inc | Randolph, VT | $83,370 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kid Logic Learning | South Burlington, VT | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Southwestern Vermont Medical Center Inc | Bennington, VT | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Stay & Play Daycare Center | Lyndonville, VT | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Winston Prouty Center for Child and Family Development Inc | Brattleboro, VT | $79,062 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lund Family Center Inc | Burlington, VT | $76,778 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Perkinsville Preschool & Childcare | Perkinsville, VT | $75,194 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Middlebury Community Music Center | Middlebury, VT | $71,062 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mount Mansfield Unified School Dist | Jericho, VT | $67,233 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Vermont and State Agricultural College | Burlington, VT | $64,341 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rutland Community Programs Inc | Rutland, VT | $61,109 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Abc & Lol LLC | St Johnsbury, VT | $60,228 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Leahy Center for Lake Champlain Inc | Burlington, VT | $58,444 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Little Dippers Doodle Childrens Cen | St Johnsbury, VT | $55,047 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Driver Hill Kiddie Care | West Charleston, VT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Turtle Island Childrens Center Inc | Montpelier, VT | $47,944 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ascension Childcare | Shelburne, VT | $47,859 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Washington County Mental Health Services Inc | Montpelier, VT | $47,237 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Family Place Inc | Norwich, VT | $45,344 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| King Street Center Inc | Burlington, VT | $45,137 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Craftsbury Saplings | Craftsbury, VT | $44,651 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Milton Family Community Center Inc | Milton, VT | $42,328 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Champlain Center for Play Therapy | Williston, VT | $42,201 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wonderfeet Kids Museum | Rutland, VT | $41,653 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Lakers Academy LLC | Colchester, VT | $40,519 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Angels Childcare | Newport, VT | $40,226 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vermont Connector | Burlington, VT | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alburgh Family Clubhouse Incorporated | Alburgh, VT | $39,701 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Oak Hill Childrens Center | Pownal, VT | $39,495 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Pumpkin Patch LLC | Putney, VT | $38,115 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Greater Burlington Young Mens Christian Association Inc | Burlington, VT | $37,322 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rutland County Parent-Child Center Inc | Rutland, VT | $35,163 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Dad Guild Inc | Burlington, VT | $34,751 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Billie Slade | Dummerston, VT | $33,058 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cabot Community Association Inc | Cabot, VT | $32,133 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Neck of the Woods Inc | Waitsfield, VT | $28,422 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Burlington Childrens Space Inc | Burlington, VT | $27,122 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Montessori School of Central Vermont Inc | Barre, VT | $27,042 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Morristown After School Program | Morrisville, VT | $25,473 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rutland Mental Health Service Inc | Rutland, VT | $24,268 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Whiting Library | Chester, VT | $23,239 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Evolution Prenatal & Family Yoga | Burlington, VT | $23,086 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Growing Tree LLC | Salisbury, VT | $22,914 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| One Arts Inc | Burlington, VT | $22,228 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Starksboro Cooperative Preschool Inc | Starksboro, VT | $20,951 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Town of Dummerston | East Dummerston, VT | $20,866 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prevent Child Abuse-Vermont | Montpelier, VT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Good Beginnings of Central Vermont | Montpelier, VT | $19,997 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chittenden Community Television | Burlington, VT | $18,635 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Building Bright Futures State Council Inc | Williston, VT | $17,811 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Creative Preschool Inc | S Strafford, VT | $15,095 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arlington Area Childcare Inc | Arlington, VT | $9,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vital Partnerships | Shelburne, VT | $7,649 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northshire Day School Inc | Manchestr Ctr, VT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Junebug Mother and Child Inc | Middlebury, VT | $5,269 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
12 of 60 (20%) received money in more than one year over the 2 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 34 of 60 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 16 | $405,615 | $19,842 |
| 2024 | 56 | $2,671,645 | $40,113 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $36,536 -- 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 Vermont.
- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Building Bright Futures's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 37 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 19 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 600 Blair Park Rd Suite 160, Williston, VT, 05495.
EIN 45-2392293 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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