Massachusetts · Public charity
Greenlight Fund Inc
The greenlight fund transforms the lives of children and families in high-poverty urban areas by creating infrastructure and a consistent annual process in cities to identify critical needs, import innovative entrepreneurial programs that can have a significant and measurable impact, and galvanize local and national support to help…
- $4.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $137,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $685,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $57M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Greenlight Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $348k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 34 | $4.6M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $3.9M | 32% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $3.5M | 54% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $2.8M | 21% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $2.3M | 21% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $1.8M | 27% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $2.1M | 13% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $2.4M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Employment Opportunities Inc | $2,660,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Youth Guidance | $2,451,204 | 8 | 2% |
| Parentchild Inc | $1,870,000 | 8 | 9% |
| Food Connect Co | $1,282,500 | 5 | 30% |
| Cure Violence Global | $1,100,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Springboard Collaborative | $890,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Wellbeing Action for Youth Inc | $825,000 | 3 | 11% |
| Blueprint Schools Network Inc | $748,520 | 4 | 12% |
| The Literacy Lab | $697,250 | 4 | 1% |
| New Teacher Center | $650,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 61 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Greenlight Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Boston Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Gates Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Pwc Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Paul & Edith Babson Foundation 106846-000 · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Greenlight Fund Inc
- How much does Greenlight Fund Inc give?
- Greenlight Fund Inc reported 34 grants totaling $4,571,296 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Greenlight Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (18%), Employment (17%), Education (15%).
- Who are Greenlight Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Center for Employment Opportunities Inc ($2.7M), Youth Guidance ($2.5M), Parentchild Inc ($1.9M).
- Does Greenlight Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Greenlight Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Annie E Casey Foundation Inc, Td Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Greenlight Fund Inc based?
- Greenlight Fund Inc is based in MA.
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