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GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX)
GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX) (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,600 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($400,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX)'s funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,749 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Union Settlement Association Inclocal
- Spring Street Climate Fund Incportfolio match
- The Community Preservation Corporationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 81% · 2018 65% · 2019 73% · 2020 74% · 2021 69% · 2022 31% · 2023 33% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX)’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $150k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $319k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Natural Resources Defense Council Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX) raised.
From the IRS filings of GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX)’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
GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 92% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX) draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Union Settlement Association InclocalNY · funds 252 organizations near you
- Spring Street Climate Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Community Preservation Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E4thefuture Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Center for New York City Neighborhoods Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phipps Housesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- City Parks Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abny Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Harlem Environmental Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Union of Painters and Allied Trades District Council No 9portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Science and Energy Innovation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX)
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX): 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX)?
- GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX) (New York) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $435,600 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($400,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX) have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $435,600 in grants to GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX), 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX)?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREEN LIGHT NEW YORKINC DBA BUILDING ENERGY EXCHANGE (BEEX) find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing