Funding search · EIN 934678619 · Washington, DC

Bright Future Fund

Name: Bright Future Fund grants, 2024–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.

53
grants reported: $182.1M
total given: 2024–2024
filing years: $2.0M
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2024–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Future Forward USA Action1 grant · $20.8M
Our American Future Action1 grant · $20.0M
Working America1 grant · $14.5M
Rapid Resist Action1 grant · $12.4M
Workmoney Foundation1 grant · $10.0M
Working America Education1 grant · $10.0M
Forward Majority Action1 grant · $7.8M
Center for Voter Information1 grant · $6.7M
Workmoney1 grant · $6.5M
Pro-Democracy Campaign1 grant · $6.0M

Grant history

All 53 reported grants, largest first.

$20.8M
Future Forward USA Action · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$20.0M
Our American Future Action · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$14.5M
Working America · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$12.4M
Rapid Resist Action · Chicago, IL · 2024
General support
$10.0M
Working America Education · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$10.0M
Workmoney Foundation · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
General support
$7.8M
Forward Majority Action · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$6.7M
Center for Voter Information · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$6.5M
Workmoney · Milwaukee, WI · 2024
General support
$6.0M
Pro-Democracy Campaign · Foxboro, MA · 2024
General support
$5.3M
Majority Forward · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$4.5M
Focus for Democracy Action · Camarillo, CA · 2024
General support
$4.3M
Pivotpac · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
General support
$4.0M
Future Now Action · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$3.8M
Local Jobs & Economic Development Fund · Dover, DE · 2024
General support
$3.5M
Sixteen Thirty Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$3.5M
People'S Action Power · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$2.9M
Democracyfirst · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$2.7M
Ffpac · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$2.7M
Michigan Civic Education Fund · Madison Heights, MI · 2024
General support
$2.5M
Business Forward Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$2.5M
Civic Nation · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$2.5M
Focus for Democracy Fund · Albany, CA · 2024
General support
$2.5M
Hopewell Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$2.5M
United for Democracy · Foxboro, MA · 2024
General support
$2.0M
Fair Democracy · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$2.0M
Lexington Observer · Lexington, MA · 2024
General support
$1.5M
All Voting Is Local · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$1.3M
Clear Choice Action · Boston, MA · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Economic Opportunity Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Public Rights Project · Oakland, CA · 2024
General support
$1.0M
State Engagement Fund · Raleigh, NC · 2024
General support
$1.0M
Vote Rev Action Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$887,500
Center for Community Change Action · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$880,000
Civitech · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$610,000
North Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$550,000
America Votes · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$470,000
Equislabs · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General support
$450,000
Civic Nation Action · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$400,000
The Act Now Project · Covina, CA · 2024
General support
$300,000
Movement Strategy Center Action Fund · Oakland, CA · 2024
General support
$250,000
21st Century Fund · Lansing, MI · 2024
General support
$250,000
Democracy Planning & Enhancement Fund · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$250,000
Democracy Sentry · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$250,000
Ground Game Texas · Austin, TX · 2024
General support
$250,000
Institute for a Progressive Nevada · Henderson, NV · 2024
General support
$250,000
Vote Forward · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$200,000
House Majority Forward · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$150,000
Value My Vote · Silver Spring, MD · 2024
General support
$120,000
Southern Vision Alliance · Durham, NC · 2024
General support
$110,000
Mtg Research · Palo Alto, CA · 2024
General support
$100,000
Bfd Pac · Washington, DC · 2024
General support
$100,000
Western States Strategies · Portland, OR · 2024
General support

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Source: IRS Form 990, Schedule I, as filed by this organization. These are grants already paid. Grants paid directly to individuals are reported to the IRS only as totals, so they do not appear as named lines here.