Connecticut · Private foundation
Harbor Lights 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.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2022
- 82
- Itemized grants FY2022
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Harbor Lights Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund For Wealth Management Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Harbor Lights Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 40 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Itemized, FY2022
- $952k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2022
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 62
- FY2020 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 14
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 22% of the organizations Harbor Lights Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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 | 60 | $689k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $291k | 49% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $607k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Americares Foundation Inc | $318,130 | 4 | 0% |
| University of Denver | $183,334 | 4 | 0% |
| Christ Episcopal Church | $180,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Halo Trust (Usa) Inc | $84,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Ithaca College | $78,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Riekes Center for Human Enhancement | $76,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Oceana Action Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Colorado College | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Norwich University | $32,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 68 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($660k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harbor Lights Foundation supplied at peak.
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: Karl F and Teryn B Weintz Foundation Inc · Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · Hamilton Family Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Winifred M Purdy Foundation · Brooks-Mathews Foundation
How this is measured
About Harbor Lights Foundation
- How much does Harbor Lights Foundation give?
- Harbor Lights Foundation reported 82 itemized grants totaling $951,500, out of $1,000,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 62 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
- What does Harbor Lights Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (81%), Education (5%), International (2%).
- Who are Harbor Lights Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Americares Foundation Inc ($318k), University of Denver ($183k), Christ Episcopal Church ($180k).
- Does Harbor Lights Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harbor Lights 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 Harbor Lights Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Karl F and Teryn B Weintz Foundation Inc, Lyn & Margaret Comfort Charitable Foundation, Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Harbor Lights Foundation based?
- Harbor Lights Foundation is based in CT.
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