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Michigan · Public charity

Richard U Light Foundation

To promote the education of young men and women and provide financial assistance to enable needy individuals to secure an education.

$561k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
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100% of Richard U Light Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Yale University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’17
0
’18
0
’19
0
’20
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’21
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’22
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’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$561,282
Largest grant, FY2023
$561,282
States reached, FY2023
1
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$81M

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2023.

YALE UNIVERSITY$561,282

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About Richard U Light Foundation

How much does Richard U Light Foundation give?
Richard U Light Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $561,282 in its FY2023 IRS filing.
What does Richard U Light Foundation fund?
By grant dollars, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Where is Richard U Light Foundation based?
Richard U Light Foundation is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 1 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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