NorthLight Foundation envisions a world where the Earth’s environment is healthy, protected, and sustained for future generations.

Our Vision

NorthLight Foundation is a private foundation established by Dan and Sheryl Tishman. We invest at the intersection of human and environmental landscapes and work with organizations to deliver high-impact and systemic change.

Our work primarily focuses on climate and land conservation, funded through a lens of environmental justice.

2023 Annual Report

Download our annual report to learn about NorthLight Foundation’s sixth year of grantmaking.

Our Approach

NorthLight Foundation approaches environmental grantmaking from a perspective of exploration and creativity. We try to fill the gaps others aren’t -- deploying risk capital to encourage new and fundamentally different paths to systems change.