About Bright Horizons Foundation for Children
Support children and families facing crisis by mobilizing Bright Horizons employees, volunteers, and partners through grants, volunteer projects, and the Bright Spaces program to create safe, playful, healing environments and provide financial assistance when needed.
Focus Areas
Children & families in crisisHomelessnessEarly childhood / child developmentEmergency financial assistance (employees)Volunteer-led program support
Who They Fund
children in Ukrainedisplaced/refugee childrenchildren in transitional sheltersfamilies with children in transition
Funding Style
emergency/humanitarian relief
About Bright Horizons Foundation for Children
A defining pattern for Bright Horizons Foundation for Children is its support for children in crisis through Bright Spaces: child-centered rooms and play areas created in shelters and other service settings. Recent grants show that work in practice, from $66,878 to Save the Children for relief efforts for children in Ukraine to repeated $50,000 awards to Horizons for Homeless for activities for children. The foundation’s grants also reach transitional housing and family support settings, including support for children in transitional shelter and for agencies serving families with children in transition. The grant list shows a steady emphasis on trauma-informed, direct-service support rather than broad, unrestricted philanthropy. Bright Spaces awards appear across multiple organizations and years, including grants to Familywise Services, Promises2kids, Gladdin Community House, Eliot Human Services, and The City Center Transitional Living. In those settings, the foundation funds creation or support of spaces where children can play, recover, and connect with family while families navigate homelessness, displacement, or crisis. The foundation also uses volunteer-linked giving through employee-related programs, reinforcing a model built around staff engagement and targeted project support.
What Bright Horizons Foundation for Children Funds
One core focus is shelter-based child enrichment. In 2024, Bright Horizons Foundation for Children gave $34,976 to Familywise Services to create a Bright Space, and it gave $16,962 to The City Center Transitional Living to create a Bright Space. Similar awards went to Maryville Academy for a Bright Space and to Hesed House for a Bright Space, showing how the foundation supports child-centered environments inside service agencies. A second theme is crisis response for displaced and conflict-affected children. In 2023, it gave $66,878 to Save the Children to support relief efforts for children in Ukraine. That fits the foundation’s broader interest in psychosocial support and emergency relief for children facing disruption. The foundation also backs family-serving organizations in transition settings. It awarded $8,609 to Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley to support children and families in transitional shelter, and $8,000 to Umass Memorial Health for the same purpose. Those grants align with support for households needing stable, child-friendly spaces during transition.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$135K
Total Assets
$1.5M
Total Revenue
$725K
Total Expenses
$727K
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $8K and $18K, with a median of $10K.
25th Percentile
$8K
Median
$10K
75th Percentile
$18K
Geographic Reach
National15 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
YVONNE LYNCH
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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