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GRANT STATISTICS

In Fiscal Year 2009 (October 2008-September 2009), Firelight’s Board of Directors approved a total of 187 grants in two dockets (March and September), totaling $1.94 million.

The data analysis below was conducted on 182 rather than 187 grants because it excludes qualitatively different grants, such as those made to US-based organizations, capacity-building grants, discretionary grants, and grants made to intermediary organizations.

In 2009, Zambian community-based organizations received the highest percentage of funding (21 percent), with Rwandan and Tanzanian groups receiving the second highest percentage (15 percent each).

Grants in 2009 were distributed across organizational development levels with 39 percent of funds going to organizations that are expanding; 31 percent of funds going to emerging organizations; 28 percent going to more established organizations; and the remaining 2 percent being channeled to community-based intermediary organizations reaching some of the smallest and hardest to reach grassroots groups.

Our analysis of the beneficiaries of the 2009 grants shows that the largest proportion of funding goes to activities serving children (40 percent), followed by activities benefitting the community groups that support vulnerable children and families (33 percent). Families and caregivers benefitted from 17 percent of the total funding, and communities from 10 percent.

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