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Farlight Foundation F/K/A I See a 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $563k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY | $200,000 |
| PALLIATIVE CARE FOR UGANDA INC | $125,000 |
| PLAY ON PHILLY | $100,000 |
| 826 BOSTON | $75,000 |
| PALLIATIVE CARE FOR UGANDA INC | $62,500 |
| BUCKS ROCK CAMP | $25,000 |
| TCS | $25,000 |
| WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | $25,000 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| RAMAH | $20,000 |
| NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| GERMANTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE FENN SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GAINING GROUND | $10,000 |
| FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% 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 98% of Farlight Foundation F/K/A I See a 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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- PCPALLIATIVE CARE AND EDUCATION FOR RURAL2× · 2023–2024 · $313k · revenue +85% · 57% of their budget
- POPLAY ON PHILLY2× · 2023–2024 · $185k · revenue +1%
826 BOSTON INC2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +259%
Funded once
- JAJEWISH AGENCY FOR ISREAL - NORTH AMERICAN COUNCIL (OPERATION FALCON)one grant, 2023 · $100k
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCone grant, 2023 · $72k · revenue -45%
- NGNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY PRISTINE SEASone grant, 2023 · $50k
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 organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
Raspberry pi foundation north america enables young people to realize their full potential through the power of computer science and ai.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Forest Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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 37 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 54 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 PALLIATIVE CARE AND EDUCATION FOR RURAL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLAY ON PHILLY ↗
- Who funds 826 BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BUCK'S ROCK CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAMAH IN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FENN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ASTRONAUTS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GAINING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds POLITE TUMOR INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds SWP INC dba SHADOW WARRIORS ↗
- Who funds FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The William Penn Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Farlight Foundation F/K/A I See a 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Nature Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 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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