· Private foundation
The Greenelight Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
Largely a single collection: about 92% of reported assets are Life Insurance Policy.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE OF THE VALLEY RESCUE MISSION | $15,000 |
| JENSEN SCHMIDT TENNIS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MAG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| VARIETY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HTHOPE THE MISSION4× · 2021–2024 · $55k · revenue +162%
- VBVARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB4× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +112%
- KIKODAWEST INC2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- VBVARIETY BOYS GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2022 · $5k
- AWAHEAD WITH HORSES INCone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -48%
- FAFive Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles Countygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +25%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…
We are a premier provider dedicated to healing children and young adults, strengthening families, and transforming communities through quality comprehensive services and advocacy. we envision a world in which children and young adults,…
Sycamores nonprofit health organization whose mission is cultivating hope and resilience to enrich the well-being of children, families, and communities through out los angeles and riverside counties.
Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…
The los angeles child development center (lacdc) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide accessible, affordable mental health services to children who could otherwise not afford them.programs lacdc at camino nuevo charter…
Listen and Talk teaches deaf and hard of hearing children to communicate and learn through listening and spoken language.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HOPE THE MISSION ↗
- Who funds VARIETY BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds KODAWEST INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN TRACY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds JONNY BASS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds AHEAD WITH HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds Five Acres The Boys and Girls' Aid Society of Los Angeles County ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA EDUCATORS OF THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds Operation Project Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Greenelight Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Greenelight Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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