New York · Private foundation
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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2024
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 53%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $75,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,225,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 51
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $82M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations Northlight Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 42 | $6.7M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $5.1M | 53% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $2.4M | 58% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $4.6M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $4.5M | 19% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $6.4M | 66% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $5.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Michigan | $7,875,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Alaska Wilderness League | $3,964,000 | 7 | 28% |
| The New School | $3,235,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $2,283,570 | 7 | 0% |
| The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation | $1,585,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $1,550,001 | 6 | 0% |
| Island Institute | $1,200,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Grist Magazine Inc | $700,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters | $666,666 | 4 | 9% |
| Center for American Progress | $565,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 96 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Northlight Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 87 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
About Northlight Foundation Inc
- How much does Northlight Foundation Inc give?
- Northlight Foundation Inc reported 46 grants totaling $7,316,108 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Northlight Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (31%), Health (25%), Philanthropy (25%).
- Who are Northlight Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: University of Michigan ($7.9M), Alaska Wilderness League ($4.0M), The New School ($3.2M).
- Does Northlight Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Northlight Foundation Inc 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 Northlight Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Patagoniaorg, The Overbrook Foundation.
- Where is Northlight Foundation Inc based?
- Northlight Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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