· Private foundation
There is a Light 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k57 grants · $182k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $141k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL | $75,000 |
| INNOCENCE OC | $50,000 |
| ONEKID ONEWORLD INC | $25,000 |
| MUSIC FOR MOVEMENTS INC | $25,000 |
| INNOCEANA | $20,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS MEDIA CENTER | $10,800 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| B Ponce | $10,000 |
| SUSAN G KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| A QUARTER BLUE | $10,000 |
| EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| TIDINGS FOR TEENS | $7,500 |
| K Kramer | $6,889 |
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 (FY21–24, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 59 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, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $545k 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
- OKONE KID ONE WORLD3× · 2022–2024 · $85k · revenue +14%
- MFMUSIC FOR MOVEMENTS INC DBA BYE BYE PLASTIC USA2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +152% · 32% of their budget
- LALOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK2× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- NTN T Hong Nguyenone grant, 2021 · $30k
- MFMURPHSLIFE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -46%
- TLTHE LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +23%
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.
The purpose is to exonerate the wrongly convicted, uncover and remedy past misuse of evidence in the courtroom, and improve the dialogue among stakeholders in the criminal legal system to prevent future injustice.
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To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
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The mission of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center is to: Establish a comprehensive and objective historical record of the human rights situation in Iran, and on the basis of this record, establish responsibility for patterns of…
The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The citizens commission on human rights (cchr) is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious mental health industry watchdog whose mission is to eradicate abuses committed under the guise of mental health. we work to ensure patient and…
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The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edward Charles Foundation and the most unlike its peers is A Quarter Blue. 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 17 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 111 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
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 SOUTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ONE KID ONE WORLD ↗
- Who funds INNOCEANA ↗
- Who funds INNOCENCE OC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC FOR MOVEMENTS INC DBA BYE BYE PLASTIC USA ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MURPHSLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LOS ANGELES VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIVE TO RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Victims of Illicit Drugs Inc ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN RELIEF SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC DBA THE CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVE TO GIVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL MISSIONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Advocacy Inclusion and Resources ↗
- Who funds CHILD International ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CHILDRENS MEDIA CENTER ↗
- Who funds OAKWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds A QUARTER BLUE ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER WATCHDOG ↗
- Who funds THE WESTON WAYNES WARRIORS FOUNDATION co Sevy Fisher ↗
- Who funds DREAM MACHINE TOUR ↗
- Who funds GREAT KIDS WITH ADHD A TEXAS NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
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: California Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 There is a 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.