California · Private foundation
Ray of Light Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $329k
- Granted FY2022
- 6
- Grants FY2022
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of Ray of Light Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Social Impact Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Ray of Light Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $329k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $89,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 3
- Total assets, FY2022
- $6.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations Ray of Light Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 6 | $329k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $585k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $2.0M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $1.1M | 55% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $725k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $613k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raising Malawi Inc | $2,250,000 | 2 | 98% |
| Gates Philanthropy Partners | $1,000,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Shining Hope for Communities Inc | $727,950 | 5 | 2% |
| Creating Hope International | $650,000 | 5 | 17% |
| V-Day | $389,000 | 4 | 13% |
| American Near East Refugee Aid | $350,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Unrwa USA National Committee Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Empowerment Plan | $275,000 | 3 | 4% |
| National Italian American Foundationinc | $250,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program | $150,000 | 3 | 4% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ray of Light Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
About Ray of Light Foundation
- How much does Ray of Light Foundation give?
- Ray of Light Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $328,713 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Ray of Light Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (38%), Philanthropy (22%), Religion (12%).
- Who are Ray of Light Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Raising Malawi Inc ($2.3M), Gates Philanthropy Partners ($1.0M), Shining Hope for Communities Inc ($728k).
- Does Ray of Light Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ray of Light Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ray of Light Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Ray of Light Foundation based?
- Ray of Light Foundation is based in CA.
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