California · 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.
- $25M
- Granted FY2022
- 23
- Grants FY2022
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2022
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.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $547,500
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $5,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 38
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 5
- Total assets, FY2022
- $254M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 33% of the organizations Enlight Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 21 | $23M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $15M | 48% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $13M | 68% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $8.3M | 52% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $6.2M | 39% |
| FY2017 | 24 | $5.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Voter Participation Center | $9,300,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Solutions Journalism Network Inc | $9,020,150 | 7 | 51% |
| World Savvy | $8,175,000 | 8 | 87% |
| Tilting Futures Incorporated | $5,475,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation | $5,000,000 | 5 | 11% |
| Children's Health Council Inc | $4,500,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Watson Institute | $3,550,734 | 8 | 44% |
| Democracy Works Inc | $3,000,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Goodpower Education Fund Inc | $3,000,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $2,500,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($32M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Enlight Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About Enlight Foundation
- How much does Enlight Foundation give?
- Enlight Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $24,735,664 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Enlight Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (38%), Education (28%), Public Benefit (8%).
- Who are Enlight Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Voter Participation Center ($9.3M), Solutions Journalism Network Inc ($9.0M), World Savvy ($8.2M).
- Does Enlight Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Enlight Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Enlight Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Enlight Foundation based?
- Enlight Foundation is based in CA.
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