· Private foundation
Lighten Family 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH | $16,900 |
| DIVINE FAVOR & FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEW ROCHELLE INC | $10,000 |
| CENTER CHAPEL MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH | $7,000 |
| BETA ZETA BOULE FOUNDATION | $3,800 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC | $2,500 |
| NEW ROCHELLE POLICE FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| NEW ROCHELLE BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION INC | $1,000 |
| REACH ACADEMY LEARNING CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC6× · 2017–2023 · $325k · revenue +102%- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEW ROCHELLE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +298%
- TFThe Fellas College Scholarship Fund5× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +374%
Funded once
- BFBOULE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +98%
- ATAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -14%
- TSTHE STONE TRUST CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -39%
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
"citizens of culture and courage"committed to bilingual french and american education of the highest standard, our mission is to prepare students of many origins to be thinkers, innovators and leaders, at home in the world. we inspire and…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Our mission is to advance the academic and professional aspirations of underrepresented students of modest means, thereby expanding our nation's leadership pool. we provide educational tutoring, standardized test preparation and academic…
Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.
To provide access to high-quality music education for anyone who seeks it, regardless of economic status, ability level, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation.
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
As a vital east harlem education and enrichment center, ehtp works with students from early childhood through adulthood to prepare them with the academic skills, strength of character, and social and emotional well-being to excel in high…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Beta Zeta Boule Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 33 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 NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEW ROCHELLE INC ↗
- Who funds BOULE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ROCHELLE POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF WESTCHESTER CLUBMEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE STONE TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BETA ZETA BOULE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Fellas College Scholarship Fund ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New Rochelle Basketball Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN JESUIT PREP ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds METRO-MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds NAACP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds REACH ACADEMY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW ROCHELLE FUND FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds JULIA DYCKMAN ANDRUS MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
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: 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
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 Lighten Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.