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Ed Lucas Foundation Inc

To Raise Funds and Awareness for Organizations That Work With Blind and Visually Impaired Persons and Charities Benefiting Those With Other Disabilities

$80k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$233kHuman Services$170kPublic Benefit$30kYouth Development$28k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $70,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $80,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$89k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Seeing Eye$25,000
Roger Clemens Foundation$10,000
Seton Hall University$10,000
United Cerebral Palsy Foundation$10,000
David Cone Foundation$7,500
Breakthrough T1D$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Center For Disability Services: $8k → 14%VISIONS: $8k → 17%VISIONS: $8k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$423k · 7 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$423k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TS
    THE SEEING EYE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +44%
  • SH
    SETON HALL UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $115k · revenue +42%
  • TI
    The Independence Fund Inc
    4× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • CR
    CHOROIDEREMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +72%
  • BF
    BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +30%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES HOLDING CORPORATION
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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2
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
3
The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc

To drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures, for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, usher syndrome, and the spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases.

Health
4
The Glaucoma Foundation Inc

The glaucoma foundation, inc. is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to eradicating glaucoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness. the strategy to achieve this goal is two-fold: raise public awareness concerning…

Health
5
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
9
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
10
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
11
CSNK2A1 Foundation

Focus on finding a cure for okur-chung neurodevelopmental syndrome and ensuring individuals have the opportunities and support necessary for happy and full lives.

Health
12
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc

Muscular dystrophy association (mda) is the #1 voluntary health organization in the united states for people living with muscular dystrophy, als, and related neuromuscular diseases. (cont. schedule o) for over 70 years, mda has led the way…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Independence Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SEEING EYE INC: $145,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INCVISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $15,000 · Human ServicesVISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALL…CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES HOLDING CORPORATION: $7,500 · Human ServicesSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $115,000 · OtherSETON HALL UNIVERSITYUnited Cerebral Palsy of Hudson County: $42,500 · HealthUnited Cerebral Pals…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $32,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATI…The Independence Fund Inc: $55,000 · Public BenefitThe Independe…DAVID CONE FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · PhilanthropyTHE ROGER CLEMENS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCHOROIDEREMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Science & Tech
Human Services$167,500Other$115,000Health$85,000Public Benefit$55,000Philanthropy$27,500Science & Tech$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $145,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $115,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Independence Fund Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy of Hudson County: $42,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID CONE FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetVISIONSSERVICES FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHOROIDEREMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROGER CLEMENS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES HOLDING CORPORATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ed Lucas Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ed Lucas Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Seton Hall University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Ed Lucas Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Ed Lucas Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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