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CatchLight

CatchLight is a hybrid nonprofit media organization combining the practices of art, journalism and social justice. We are a transformational force, urgently bringing resources and organizations together to nurture and grow a thriving visual ecosystem. We leverage the power of visuals to inform, connect and transform communities.

$86k
Granted FY2022
1
Itemized grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$21k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$21,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$21,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2021 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$2.8M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations CatchLight funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$21k100%
FY20212$39kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$30kReligion$30k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eye & I Inc$21,0001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($39k), not named here.

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About CatchLight

How much does CatchLight give?
CatchLight reported 1 itemized grants totaling $21,000, out of $85,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2022.
What does CatchLight fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2022, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (50%), Religion (50%).
Who are CatchLight's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2022: Eye & I Inc ($21k).
Does CatchLight fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is CatchLight based?
CatchLight is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 3 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $111k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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