Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
GREENLIGHT AMERICA
GREENLIGHT AMERICA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,064,187 to it, the largest being RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC ($1,365,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GREENLIGHT AMERICA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,184 environment 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.
- Climate Imperative Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Energy Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Sea Change Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 GREENLIGHT AMERICA’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
GREENLIGHT AMERICA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
88% 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 GREENLIGHT AMERICA.
“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
GREENLIGHT AMERICA draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $542k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
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. Your 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Climate Imperative Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 72 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Energy Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchCA · backs 153 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sea Change Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Warming Mitigation Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Breakthrough Energy Action Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elemental Excelerator Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jeremy and Hannelore Grantham Environmental Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rocky Mountain Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Breakthrough Energy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Woka Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Marisla Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
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 GREENLIGHT AMERICA
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 Washington, D.C.
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
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Greenlight Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREENLIGHT AMERICA: 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 GREENLIGHT AMERICA?
- GREENLIGHT AMERICA (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,064,187 to it, the largest being RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC ($1,365,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREENLIGHT AMERICA have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $3,064,187 in grants to GREENLIGHT AMERICA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREENLIGHT AMERICA?
- RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,365,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREENLIGHT AMERICA 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 18funders 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