Colorado · Private foundation
Two Lights Foundation Inc
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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $618,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Two Lights Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $703k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $1.3M | 35% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $1.6M | 50% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $974k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $1.3M | 45% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $1.7M | 73% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $1.3M | 61% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $1.7M | 76% |
| FY2017 | 20 | $1.5M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dia Center for the Arts Inc | $4,223,927 | 8 | 3% |
| The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc | $1,015,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The Dartmouth Inc | $1,000,000 | 4 | 54% |
| Chautauqua Institution | $1,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Chautauqua Foundation Inc | $800,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America | $302,120 | 8 | 0% |
| Nfl Foundation Inc | $255,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $200,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Merging Vets and Players | $200,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Answer Als | $125,000 | 2 | 7% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($628k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Two Lights Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 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: Nfl Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Andrew M Paul Family Foundation · The Nagle Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Marilynn and John Hill Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America
How this is measured
About Two Lights Foundation Inc
- How much does Two Lights Foundation Inc give?
- Two Lights Foundation Inc reported 23 grants totaling $1,313,820 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Two Lights Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (62%), Education (10%), Recreation & Sports (8%).
- Who are Two Lights Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Dia Center for the Arts Inc ($4.2M), The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc ($1.0M), The Dartmouth Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Two Lights Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Two Lights Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Two Lights Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nfl Foundation Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Andrew M Paul Family Foundation.
- Where is Two Lights Foundation Inc based?
- Two Lights Foundation Inc is based in CO.
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