Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Floodlight Inc
Floodlight Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,938,899 to it, the largest being SEQUOIA CLIMATE FOUNDATION ($800,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Floodlight Inc does
Mission
Floodlight is an environmental news organization that investigates the people and corporations stalling climate action. We collaborate with local and nonprofit publications.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2024, Floodlight continued its investigative and accountability-focused journalism, with a staff of eight producing a record amount of coverage. The organization revealed a secret network blocking renewable power, tracked how campaign cash is slowing the energy transition, and reported from fenceline communities fighting against pollution. Floodlight's work contributed to significant audience growth, with a substantial increase in newsletter subscribers. In April 2024, the organization shifted its distribution model to broaden its reach and launched a new website designed to showcase its stories uncovering the forces stalling climate action and to facilitate republication of its work by newsrooms. Floodlight maintained collaborations with numerous news organizations, including national outlets such as The Guardian, NPR, and Grist, as well as local partners, continuing its mission to provide investigative reporting on environmental and climate issues.
$1,032,997 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,032,997.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $1.9M (+50%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of Floodlight Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Emily Holden
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $870k → $1.5M.
13 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Floodlight Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Floodlight Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
57% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Floodlight Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 40% · 2022 44% · 2023 33% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
Floodlight Inc draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Floodlight Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Floodlight Inc
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Floodlight Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Floodlight Inc?
- Floodlight Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,938,899 to it, the largest being SEQUOIA CLIMATE FOUNDATION ($800,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Floodlight Inc have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $4,938,899 in grants to Floodlight Inc, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Floodlight Inc?
- SEQUOIA CLIMATE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $800,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Floodlight Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 28 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing