A museum gallery with a large landscape painting in a gilt frame

Grant recipient EIN 27-1912845Arts and culture

Who funds Catchlight?

23 private foundations gave Catchlight in San Francisco, CA $4.6 million across 48 grants, in tax years 2018 to 2025.

Grants listed on funders’ 990-PF returns for tax years 2018 to 2025, read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

Grants received by year

Grants from private foundations by the funder’s tax year. The latest year is in blue; it is not complete until all its returns reach the IRS.

Every foundation grant, by year

48 grants

Each line as the funder listed it on its return, newest year first, then largest.

  1. The Black Dog Private Foundation IncWilmington, DE 2025

    General & Unrestricted

    $5,000
  2. The North Ridge FoundationMill Valley, CA 2025

    General operating support

    $1,000
  3. John S and James L Knight FoundationMiami, FL 2024

    To secure the national expansion of catchlight local, a new model that advances the visual capacity of local newsrooms across the united states.

    $750,000
  4. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2024

    To support efforts to build and scale an initiative to add visual journalism capacity to nonprofit newsrooms across the united states.

    $350,000
  5. PhotowingsSan Francisco, CA 2024

    Catchlight local education partnership

    $150,000
  6. The Kresge FoundationTroy, MI 2024

    General operating support

    $125,000
  7. Egg Foundation DBA Cameron Schrier FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2024

    General support

    $10,000
  8. The Silver Lining FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2024

    To support community programs

    $5,000
  9. Pilara Family FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2024

    Art

    $1,023
  10. The North Ridge FoundationMill Valley, CA 2024

    General operating support

    $1,000
  11. Ward Family FoundationMason, OH 2024

    Programs and operations

    $500
  12. Enlight FoundationPalo Alto, CA 2023

    Charity

    $610,000
  13. John D and Catherine T MacArthur FoundationChicago, IL 2023

    in support of general operations

    $300,000
  14. John S and James L Knight FoundationMiami, FL 2023

    To secure the national expansion of catchlight local, a new model that advances the visual capacity of local newsrooms across the united states.

    $250,000
  15. The Kresge FoundationTroy, MI 2023

    This general operating grant supports catchlights collaborative and community-based visual storytelling projects that center on racial justice and cultural equity and envision inclusive economic recovery.

    $125,000
  16. PhotowingsSan Francisco, CA 2023

    For the catchlight local education partnership and the visual storytelling summit.

    $115,000
  17. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2023

    To support efforts to build and scale an initiative to add visual journalism capacity to nonprofit newsrooms across the united states.

    $100,000
  18. Egg Foundation DBA Cameron Schrier FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2023

    General support

    $33,333
  19. The Black Dog Private Foundation IncWilmington, DE 2023

    General & Unrestricted

    $5,000
  20. The Silver Lining FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2023

    To support community organizing

    $5,000
  21. Ward Family FoundationMason, OH 2023

    Programs and operations

    $1,000
  22. The North Ridge FoundationMill Valley, CA 2023

    General operating support

    $1,000
  23. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2023

    General support

    $16
  24. Enlight FoundationPalo Alto, CA 2022

    Charity

    $519,000
  25. John S and James L Knight FoundationMiami, FL 2022

    To launch a statewide, shared visual journalism resource hub for under-resourced, local newsrooms in california, including two knight cities, san jose and long beach, and experiment with earned revenue models.

    $90,000
  26. PhotowingsSan Francisco, CA 2022

    For the catchlight local education partnership and the visual storytelling summit.

    $85,000
  27. The Kresge FoundationTroy, MI 2022

    Operating support of collaborative and community-based visual storytelling projects that center racial justice and cultural equity and that envision inclusive economic recovery.

    $75,000
  28. Egg Foundation DBA Cameron Schrier FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2022

    General support

    $33,333
  29. The Black Dog Private Foundation IncWilmington, DE 2022

    General & Unrestricted

    $5,000
  30. The Silver Lining FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2022

    To support nonprofit media combining art, journalism, and social justice

    $5,000
  31. Ward Family FoundationMason, OH 2022

    Programs and operations

    $1,000
  32. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 2022

    General support

    $10
  33. Enlight FoundationPalo Alto, CA 2021

    Charity

    $286,500
  34. Foundation to Promote Open SocietyNew York, NY 2021

    to support photography programming on restitution movements and social justice visual arts practitioners to change narratives about the civil society in this movement

    $225,000
  35. The Kresge FoundationTroy, MI 2021

    Operating support of collaborative and community-based visual storytelling projects that center racial justice and cultural equity and that envision inclusive economic recovery.

    $152,500
  36. The Hearst FoundationNew York, NY 2021

    Operating Support

    $75,000
  37. Egg Foundation DBA Cameron Schrier FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2021

    General support

    $33,333
  38. The Silver Lining FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2021

    To support innovators in the field of visual arts to inform, connect, and transform communities

    $5,000
  39. The David and Lucile Packard FoundationLos Altos, CA 2021

    General support

    $175
  40. The Kresge FoundationTroy, MI 2020

    Support for place-based, community-engaged visual storytelling projects that address economic inequality in the san francisco bay area and chicago.

    $80,000
  41. GE Aerospace FoundationNorwalk, CT 2020

    Matching gifts

    $10,000
  42. The Silver Lining FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2020

    To support innovators in the field of visual arts to inform, connect, and transform communities

    $5,000
  43. Lisa Stone Pritzker Family FundPalo Alto, CA 2020

    To help support, fund, amplify, create and grow visual storytellers at all levels

    $2,500
  44. Caldwell Fisher Family FoundationMenlo Park, CA 2020

    Education

    $1,000
  45. Gannett Foundation IncNew York, NY 2020

    Charitable purpose

    $500
  46. Arjay R and Frances F Miller FoundationWoodside, CA 2019

    General purpose grant

    $3,750
  47. Swig FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2019

    To discover, develop and amplify visual storytellers.

    $2,500
  48. The James L Bildner Charitable TrustManchester, MA 2018

    Unrestricted contribution

    $1,250

Funders of similar organizations nearby

Foundations that gave to other arts and culture organizations in San Francisco, CA and are not among Catchlight’s funders above.

  1. The Zellerbach Family FoundationSan Francisco, CA 388 grants Accepts applications $4,561,100 to similar organizations
  2. The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationMenlo Park, CA 518 grants Accepts applications $43,659,808 to similar organizations
  3. Kenneth Rainin FoundationOakland, CA 227 grants Preselected only $6,403,708 to similar organizations
  4. Phyllis C Wattis FoundationSan Francisco, CA 169 grants Accepts applications $2,320,100 to similar organizations
  5. Fleishhacker FoundationSan Francisco, CA 111 grants Accepts applications $724,500 to similar organizations
  6. McNabb FoundationWilmington, DE 62 grants Preselected only $63,000 to similar organizations
  7. The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncCharlotte, NC 302 grants Accepts applications $2,476,351 to similar organizations
  8. Walter and Elise Haas FundSan Francisco, CA 102 grants Accepts applications $2,362,850 to similar organizations

About this match

Funders write a recipient’s name and address, not its EIN. We matched these grants to EIN 27-1912845 by name and ZIP code against the IRS list of exempt organizations and our list of filers. Grants we could not tie to one organization are not counted here.