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Another Light Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $456k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEYOND CELIAC | $220,000 |
| THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE | $200,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES | $100,000 |
| WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO | $100,000 |
| HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC | $100,000 |
| REWILD | $100,000 |
| STICHTING SEA SHEPHERD GLOBAL | $75,000 |
| COMMUNITY SECURITY SERVICE | $75,000 |
| RODALE INSTITUTE | $75,000 |
| TO BE HONEST DBA THE TEL AVIV INSTITUTE | $75,000 |
| PENN HILLEL | $70,000 |
| KENNEBEC LAND TRUST | $65,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | $55,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $50,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Another Light Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
To improve the efficacy, speed, cost, sustainability, and scaling of conservation solutions through harnessing exponential technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship to prevent human-induced extinction.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.
Public knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. we work to shape policy on behalf of the public interest.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The Jewish Film Institute champions bold films and filmmakers that expand and evolve the Jewish story for audiences everywhere. Through its exhibition and artist development programs, JFI celebrates the spirit of film, inquiry,…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Museum of the American Revolution and the most unlike its peers is Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 68 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BEYOND CELIAC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds REWILD ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MURAL ARTS ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO INC ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds Community Security Service ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEBEC LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds 70 FACES MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT SOCIETY GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center ↗
- Who funds Cystic Fibrosis Research Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
- Who funds SIXPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds Philadelphia Flyers Alumni Association ↗
- Who funds HABITS OF WASTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF JORDAN RIVER VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BALDWIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FAIRNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT REPORTING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION AGAINST INTOLERANCE & RACISM INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds JEWBELONG INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Snider Foundation · The Jay and Terry Snider Foundation · The Lindy Snider Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Greater Good Charities · The Craig Snider Foundation · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Nash Family Foundation · Covenant Foundation · Dorrance Family Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Another Light Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Washington Friends of Music Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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