Delaware · Private foundation
Lighten Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $461k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Lighten Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $461k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $83k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $123k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $117k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $250k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $360k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $438k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $387k | 15% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $350,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Boule Foundation | $325,000 | 2 | 1% |
| New York Theological Seminary | $78,750 | 6 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Club of New Rochelle Inc | $29,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Apollo Theater Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Rochelle Police Foundation Inc | $23,080 | 9 | 2% |
| Foundation of Westchester Clubmen Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Stone Trust Corporation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Beta Zeta Boule Foundation | $8,800 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lighten Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The New York Community Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Lighten Family Foundation
- How much does Lighten Family Foundation give?
- Lighten Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $460,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lighten Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Youth Development (16%), Civil Rights (15%).
- Who are Lighten Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc ($350k), Boule Foundation ($325k), New York Theological Seminary ($79k).
- Does Lighten Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lighten Family 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 Lighten Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Charities Aid Foundation America, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Lighten Family Foundation based?
- Lighten Family Foundation is based in DE.
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