Massachusetts · Nonprofit
NEW BEDFORD LIGHT
NEW BEDFORD LIGHT (Massachusetts) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,757,054 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ($660,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NEW BEDFORD LIGHT has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,123 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,123 arts & culture 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.
- American Journalism Project Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Munschauer Family Foundationportfolio match
- Paul & Elaine Chervinsky Charitable Foundationportfolio match
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.
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: 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of NEW BEDFORD LIGHT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $376k → $907k.
8 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 NEW BEDFORD LIGHT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 funders by total. 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
NEW BEDFORD LIGHT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
51% 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 NEW BEDFORD LIGHT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 32% · 2022 33% · 2023 14% — 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
NEW BEDFORD LIGHT draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 12 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 5 statesis 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 56 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- American Journalism Project Incshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Munschauer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Paul & Elaine Chervinsky Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpfportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Panonica Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Solutions Journalism Network Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yawkey Foundation IIshared funderslocalMA · backs 63 organizations that share your funders · funds 154 organizations near you
- Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitableshared fundersMA · backs 76 organizations that share your funders
- The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-Ishared fundersMA · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- Liberty Mutual Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 80 organizations that share your funders
- The Klarman Family Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Incshared fundersMA · backs 71 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 NEW BEDFORD LIGHT
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NEW BEDFORD LIGHT: 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 NEW BEDFORD LIGHT?
- NEW BEDFORD LIGHT (Massachusetts) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,757,054 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO ($660,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW BEDFORD LIGHT have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $3,757,054 in grants to NEW BEDFORD LIGHT, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW BEDFORD LIGHT?
- JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO is the largest funder on record, with $660,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW BEDFORD LIGHT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 56funders 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