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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 FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$685k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$4.2MEmployment$3.9MEducation$3.6MYouth Development$3.0MHealth$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.7MFood & Nutrition$1.3MInternational$1.1MOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+6 grants · $2.1M
$137,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOD CONNECT CO$685,000
INNER EXPLORER INC WELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INC$380,000
THE FOUNTAIN FUND$300,000
BAM - YOUTH GUIDANCE$251,296
GENESYS WORKS$250,000
CITY OF CHARLOTTE (CURE VIOLENCE GLOBAL)$250,000
THE LITERACY LAB$207,250
PUBLIC WORKS ALLIANCE$200,500
PARENT-CHILD HOME PROGRAM INC$200,000
MRELIEF$175,000
NARRATIVE NATION INC$175,000
HOPEWORKS CAMDEN$160,000
THE CAPITAL GOOD FUND$150,000
PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES$150,000
CONNECT TO COMPETE INC$150,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 17%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $200k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $179k → 10%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $173k → 10%SINGLE STOP USA: $226k → 17%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $155k → 10%SINGLE STOP USA: $103k → 17%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $200k → 22%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $143k → 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $150k → 22%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $105k → 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $90k → 22%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $100k → 10%MRELIEF: $175k → 14%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $80k → 22%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $63k → 10%MRELIEF: $98k → 14%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $170k → 22%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $59k → 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $50k → 22%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $50k → 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $120k → 22%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $30k → 22%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $10k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON: $50k → 16%FATHERS UPLIFT INC: $10k → 16%SOCIAL FINANCE INC: $35k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
TN
NC
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 34 repeat orgs$664k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
16

Total granted

$23M
$445k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+18%

Still filing today

94%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentPublic BenefitCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +261%
  • YG
    Youth Guidance
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +121%
  • PI
    PARENTCHILD INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • FP
    FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $130k · revenue +49%
  • YV
    YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +45%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +64%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
2
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
3
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
4
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

—
5
Abilitypath

Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.

Employment
6
Youthbuild Global Inc

With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…

Employment
7
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
8
Techbridge Inc

Techbridge breaks the cycle of generational poverty through the innovative use of technology to transform nonprofit and community impact. techbridge's work is focused on four pillars: hunger relief, homeless support, social justice and…

Philanthropy
9
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
10
College Summit Inc

College summit, inc. d/b/a peerforward (peerforward)'s mission is to unleash the power of positive peer influence to transform the lives of youth living in low-income communities by connecting them to college and careers. in low-income…

Education
11
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
12
Activate Global Inc

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Springboard Collaborative; the most unlike its peers is Good Call Nyc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
36/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Youth Guidance: $2,451,204 · EducationYouth GuidanceWELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INC: $825,000 · EducationWELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INCBLUEPRINT SCHOOLS NETWORK INC: $748,520 · EducationBLUEPRINT SCHOOLS NETWORK INCTHE LITERACY LAB: $697,250 · EducationTHE LITERACY LABNEW TEACHER CENTER: $650,000 · EducationNEW TEACHER CENTERCAREMESSAGE: $507,500 · EducationCAREMESSAGEALL OUR KIN INC: $483,750 · EducationALL OUR KIN INCHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC: $445,000 · EducationHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INCGENESYS WORKS: $392,126 · EducationYEAR UP INC: $329,926 · Education+4 more: $130,000 · EducationPARENTCHILD INC: $1,870,000 · OtherPARENTCHILD INCCOMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC: $630,000 · OtherCOMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INCPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $500,000 · OtherPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIESTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $371,474 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSIT…UASPIRE: $319,060 · OtherUASPIRETHE FOUNTAIN FUND: $595,000 · OtherTHE FOUNTAIN FUNDCONNECT TO COMPETE INC: $600,000 · OtherCONNECT TO COMPETE INCPOINT SOURCE YOUTH INC: $302,500 · OtherNARRATIVE NATION INC: $272,500 · Other+15 more: $492,500 · Other+15 moreCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $2,660,000 · EmploymentCENTER FOR EMPL…PER SCHOLAS INC: $525,000 · EmploymentPER SCHOLAS INC+3 more: $30,000 · EmploymentSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $890,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD C…FII - NATIONAL: $625,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONA…FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $610,000 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE F…SINGLE STOP USA INC: $328,446 · Human ServicesSINGLE STOP U…mRelief: $272,500 · Human ServicesmRelief+4 more: $145,000 · Human ServicesFOOD CONNECT CO: $1,282,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $10,000 · Food & NutritionHomeStart Inc: $585,001 · Community ImprovementPublic Works Alliance: $310,500 · Community ImprovementTHE CAPITAL GOOD FUND: $240,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $53,750 · Community Improvement+2 more: $20,000 · Community ImprovementCURE VIOLENCE GLOBAL: $1,100,000 · International
Education$7,660,276Other$5,953,034Employment$3,215,000Human Services$2,870,946Food & Nutrition$1,292,500Community Improvement$1,209,251International$1,100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC: $2,660,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetYouth Guidance: $2,451,204 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetPARENTCHILD INC: $1,870,000 over 8y, 9.2% of budgetFOOD CONNECT CO: $1,282,500 over 5y, 30% of budgetCURE VIOLENCE GLOBAL: $1,100,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $890,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetWELLBEING ACTION FOR YOUTH INC: $825,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetBLUEPRINT SCHOOLS NETWORK INC: $748,520 over 4y, 12% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $697,250 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetNEW TEACHER CENTER: $650,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCOMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC: $630,000 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $625,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $610,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCONNECT TO COMPETE INC: $600,000 over 5y, 8.0% of budgetTHE FOUNTAIN FUND: $595,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetHomeStart Inc: $585,001 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $525,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCAREMESSAGE: $507,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES: $500,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC: $483,750 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetHOPEWORKS 'N CAMDEN INC: $445,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetGENESYS WORKS: $392,126 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $371,474 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $329,926 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSINGLE STOP USA INC: $328,446 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPublic Works Alliance: $310,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetPOINT SOURCE YOUTH INC: $302,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetmRelief: $272,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetNARRATIVE NATION INC: $272,500 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetTHE CAPITAL GOOD FUND: $240,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $160,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $130,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $53,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetRAR-MA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSocial Finance Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSING CONNECTOR: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOIN FREEWORLD INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBuild Commonwealth Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEDNAVIGATOR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWTIA WORKFORCE INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOODCORPS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUTURO HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERISE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Boston Foundation IncAnnie E Casey Foundat…Td Charitable Foundat…Fidelity FoundationGates FoundationLiberty Mutual Founda…Combined Jewish Phila…Pwc Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Paul & Edith Babson F…Silicon Valley Commun…Cambridge Savings Cha…
Boston Foundation IncMA24.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Greenlight Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greenlight Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Fathers Uplift Incorporated: 22% of income from government
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
  • HomeStart Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Social Finance Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Blueprint Schools Network Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Economic Mobility Pathways Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children - Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Compass Working Capital Inc: 1% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 61 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home