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Northlight Foundation Inc

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.

$7.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Environment$15MHealth$12MPhilanthropy$12MEducation$3.5MCivil Rights$1.5MArts & Culture$1.0MHuman Services$426kCommunity Improvement$230kOther$0
02FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+10 grants · $5.5M
$75,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$82M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$1,225,000
THE CONSERVATION FUND$1,050,000
THE NEW SCHOOL$640,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$485,714
CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS$465,000
OPENMINDS$375,000
TIDES CENTER$333,333
MAINE TRUST FOR LOCAL NEWS$300,000
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND$300,000
ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE$280,000
MAINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$200,000
FRIENDS OF KATAHDIN WOODS AND WATERS$166,666
NATIVE MOVEMENT$150,000
Individual grant recipient$135,000
THE TELLURIDE FOUNDATION$130,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $792k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.

area typical 10%CAMP KESEM: $200 → 14%TIDES CENTER: $383k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $333k → 10%AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $75k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $200 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
ME
VT
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$32M · 43 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
63

Total granted

$32M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+29%

Still filing today

81%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    6× · 2018–2024 · $7.9M · revenue +195%
  • AW
    ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +13% · 28% of their budget
  • TN
    The New School
    7× · 2018–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • M
    MOUNTAINFILM
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue -48%
  • CL
    Conservation Lands Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $152k · revenue +26%
  • RB
    REBUILD BY DESIGN INC
    one grant, 2023 · $150k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
6
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
7
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
8
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
11
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
12
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sierra Health 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyHealth Access Advocacy and …Women & Girls Leadership De…Community College Foundatio…Christian Missionary Organi…Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%19%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%46%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/105
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,460

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.

04the grantee network

100 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. 100 of the 132 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
100/100
Grantees still filing
69/100
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of Michigan — $7,875,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE — $2,750,000 · OtherALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINEIndividual grant recipient — $1,801,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTELLURIDE FOUNDATION — $750,000 · OtherTIDES CENTER — $716,667 · Other+68 more — $3,275,719 · Other+68 moreALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE — $3,964,000 · EnvironmentALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUENATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $2,283,570 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUN…THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $1,585,000 · EnvironmentTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPRO…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $1,550,001 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDNEW VENTURE FUND — $790,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDGrist Magazine Inc — $700,000 · EnvironmentGrist Magazine Inc+24 more — $1,847,604 · Environment+24 moreAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $7,345,380 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable…TIDES FOUNDATION — $1,564,666 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION+3 more — $272,500 · PhilanthropyThe New School — $3,235,000 · EducationThe New Sch…Island Institute — $1,200,000 · EducationIsland Inst…+8 more — $247,885 · EducationFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters — $666,666 · Arts & CultureMOUNTAINFILM — $250,000 · Arts & CultureGWICHIN STEERING COMMITTEE — $150,000 · Arts & CultureBEDFORD PLAYHOUSE INC — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNATIVE MOVEMENT — $475,000 · Community ImprovementWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC — $450,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $115,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $70,000 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $565,000 · Civil RightsNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC — $150,000 · Civil RightsTHE CHISHOLM LEGACY PROJECT INC — $75,000 · Civil RightsRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE — $50,000 · Civil Rights
Other$17,169,186Environment$12,720,175Philanthropy$9,182,546Education$4,682,885Arts & Culture$1,131,666Community Improvement$1,110,000Civil Rights$840,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $7,345,380 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE — $3,964,000 over 7y, 28% of budgetThe New School — $3,235,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $2,283,570 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $1,585,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $1,564,666 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $1,550,001 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetIsland Institute — $1,200,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $790,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION — $750,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $716,667 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc — $700,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetFriends of Katahdin Woods & Waters — $666,666 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $565,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT — $475,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $450,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWATERFRONT ALLIANCE INC — $450,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetWINDWARD FUND — $333,334 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMOUNTAINFILM — $250,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetNORTHERN ALASKA ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER — $240,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc — $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES FOR ALASKA — $160,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetConservation Lands Foundation — $152,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetGWICHIN STEERING COMMITTEE — $150,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEnvironmental Law Institute — $125,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPOWER SHIFT NETWORK — $124,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $115,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES NY INC — $110,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBlue Chip Player Development — $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSmartmeme DBA Center for Story-based Strategy — $80,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetMAINE CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — $80,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetSolutions Project Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE CHISHOLM LEGACY PROJECT INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITY HOUSEINC — $75,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER FUND — $70,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NEW YORK INC — $65,150 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTREKKERS INC — $60,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFUND FOR PUBLIC HOUSING INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMULTIPLIER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALIGN THE ALLIANCE FOR A GREATER NEW YORK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBEDFORD PLAYHOUSE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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.

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…PatagoniaorgThe Overbrook Foundat…Freedom Together Foun…The New York Communit…Natural Resources Def…Windward FundUnited States Energy …Tortuga Charitable Fo…The Partnership Proje…Rockefeller Family Fu…Tides Foundation
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC40.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · The Overbrook Foundation · Freedom Together Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Natural Resources Defense Council Inc · Windward Fund · United States Energy Foundation · Tortuga Charitable Foundation · The Partnership Project Inc · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Tides 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 Northlight Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Hovnanian School Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
26report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 132 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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