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Points of Light Foundation
Points of light's mission is to inspire, equip and mobilize people to create positive change through volunteering and civic engagement.
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
- $10k–50k25 grants · $868k
- $50k–250k74 grants · $8.8M
- $250k+1 grant · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT | $305,000 |
| BURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $245,000 |
| RESTORATION POINTE | $235,000 |
| INSIGHT HOUSING | $210,000 |
| DREAM STREETS TN (WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER) | $198,000 |
| LGBT CENTER ORLANDO INC | $195,000 |
| YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY | $182,000 |
| SPECIAL LOVE AND THE NORTHERN VIRGINIA 4-H EDUCATIONAL CENTER | $175,000 |
| QUEERSPACE COLLECTIVE | $175,000 |
| OURBRIDGE FOR KIDS | $172,000 |
| BRILLIANT DETROIT | $170,000 |
| THE WORKSHOPS INC | $170,000 |
| PIVOT INC | $170,000 |
| TMBC - TOGETHER MAKING A BETTER COMMUNITY | $170,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA-GREATER NEW YORK | $160,000 |
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, $5.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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.
34 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 95 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, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.7M 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
- HOHANDS ON NASHVILLE INC2× · 2018–2019 · $357k · revenue +40%
UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $273k · revenue +3%- VCVOLUNTEER CENTER OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC3× · 2018–2020 · $237k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF NORTH WILKESBOROone grant, 2022 · $325k
- RCROCKINGHAM COUNTY SCHOOLS (REIDSVILLE HIGH SCHOOL) - 1533one grant, 2022 · $300k
- FPFAIRFIELD POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUEone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue -65% · 70% of their budget
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.
Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.
Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…
To operate residential and non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence.
The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…
Chs empowers individuals and families to live in stable housing, connect to community resources, build relationships and access quality food.
To work with homeless individuals so that they achieve housing and access to supportive services. also, the organization works to prevent homelessness for marginally housed individuals.
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
We strive to serve the community by constructing and rehabilitating homes for affordable homeownership, providing new housing rentals for low to moderate wealth families in south carolina, and providing services that aid in all aspects of…
See schedule oadvancing physical and emotional safety by reducing the impact and occurrence of sexual and domestic violence, human trafficking and stalking through inclusive intervention and prevention services for children, youth, and…
Overcoming homelessness, poverty, and family violence by becoming self-sufficient
We partner with individuals of all abilities to reach their fullest potential, protecting their rights and promoting their independence and inclusion in our community.
Provide shelter and basic needs for homeless people. while fostering self-respect and human dignity, samaritan house will encourage the residents' efforts to find employment and housing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restoreokc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Port Orchard Historic Theatre 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
331 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. 331 of the 404 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CENTRAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON NASHVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HORTON'S KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds PARITY BALTIMORE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Huntington Children's Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds lowernineorg ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds AUNTIE NA'S VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds BURKE UNITED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER OF FAIRFAX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORATION PONITE ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds HANDSON GREATER PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds STATUS HOME INC F/K/A JERUSALEM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds ONEOC ↗
- Who funds RESTOREOKC INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Sta ↗
- Who funds The Florida Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project ↗
- Who funds JERSEY CARES INC ↗
- Who funds MACKIDA LOVEAL & TRIP MENTORING OUTREACH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WEST NASHVILLE DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds LGBT CENTER ORLANDO INC ↗
- Who funds BELOVED ASHEVILLE ↗
- Who funds ASHBY HOUSE LTD ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD MCLEAN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CARES INC ↗
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: THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · Td Charitable Foundation · Simple Generosity Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Wells Fargo Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Tegna Foundation Inc
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 Points of Light 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Three Oaks Homeless Shelter Inc — 41% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Parity Baltimore Incorporated — 11% of income from government
- St Vincent Depaul Middletown — 6% of income from government
- Jersey Cares Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Community Builders Inc — 4% of income from government
- Pivot Inc — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Northeast Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- Preferred Behavioral Health of Nj Inc — 0% of income from government
- North Shore Community Development Coalit — 0% of income from government
- Montclair Ambulance Unit — 0% of income from government
- The Florida Aquarium Inc — 0% of income from government
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.