· Private foundation
Enlight Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
59% of Enlight Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Enlight Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 16 organizations, $25M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $445k
- $250k+18 grants · $24M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ICONIQ EDUCATIONECONOMIC MOBILITY C | $5,000,000 |
| ICONIQ IMPACT OCEAN CO-LAB | $3,333,334 |
| WORLD SAVVY | $3,000,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSP FOUNDATI | $2,918,000 |
| SYRACUS UNIVERSITY | $2,000,000 |
| DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION | $1,200,000 |
| GIRL EFFECT | $1,000,000 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $935,280 |
| Individual grant recipient | $750,000 |
| SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK | $717,550 |
| CALMATTERS | $586,000 |
| GIVE 2 ASIA | $547,500 |
| CATCHLIGHT | $519,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL | $500,000 |
| PRESIDIO GRADUATE SCHOOL | $412,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $665k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
37 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2022, 19 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TVTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER3× · 2018–2020 · $9.3M · revenue +120%
- SJSOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC7× · 2017–2024 · $9.0M · revenue +68% · 51% of their budget
- WSWorld Savvy8× · 2017–2024 · $8.2M · revenue +105% · 87% of their budget
Funded once
- EVEVERYBODY VOTESone grant, 2019 · $2.0M
- FRFANGCAO READING CIRCLEone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -94% · 75% of their budget
- TCTHE CHRIS HONDROS FUNDone grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue -63% · 85% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach for All Inc and the most unlike its peers is Positive Change Can Happen. 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 18 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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 106 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 NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds World Savvy ↗
- Who funds Tilting Futures Incorporated ↗
- Who funds DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Watson Institute ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CalMatters ↗
- Who funds CatchLight ↗
- Who funds GIRL EFFECT INC ↗
- Who funds Empowerment Works Inc ↗
- Who funds PRESIDIO GRADUATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN LIBRARY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ART OF THE PIANO ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds THE EARTH GENOME ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TEACH FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds FANGCAO READING CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds THE CHRIS HONDROS FUND ↗
- Who funds CREW 2030 ↗
- Who funds Positive Change Can Happen ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Tides Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Fund · Skoll Fund · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The Skoll 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 Enlight 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% 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.