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Noblelight 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 $10k15 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $263k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE OPPORTUNITY MEANING AND EQUALITY GHANA LBG (HOME) | $112,530 |
| VILLAGE SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| BLANKETS OF HOPE | $50,000 |
| SURFRIDER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN BANDY ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| GREENPEACE FUND | $5,000 |
| THE CONSERVATION FUND | $5,000 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| 350ORG | $5,000 |
| CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| TETIAROA SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| RAINFOREST TRUST | $5,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +37% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- BOBLANKETS OF HOPE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $591k · revenue +65% · 61% of their budget
CHARITY GLOBAL INC3× · 2017–2020 · $542k · revenue +36%- TSTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $450k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- TKTHIRD KIND STUDIO PPEone grant, 2020 · $125k
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $113k · revenue +64%- M(MENTLTD (MENTOR)one grant, 2023 · $100k
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
The mission of the nature conservancy is to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
RA works at the intersection of business, agriculture & forests to improve lives & protect nature by transforming how land is used, production of goods & consumer choices.
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Connectocean conservation and outreach is dedicated to fostering ocean stewardship and conserving aquatic ecosystems through community engagement, education, and collaborative conservation efforts. our mission is to connect communities to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Forest Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Gracepoint School Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 58 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 BLANKETS OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGIN UNITE USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds TETIAROA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE DISC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Oceanic Preservation Society ↗
- Who funds REDFORD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rainforest Action Network ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds Teambrownsville Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds MAS FOR MORE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BLACK WOMEN'S WELLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE NETWORK INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds The ONE Campaign ↗
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BANDY ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Noblelight 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.
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