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Fran & Johanna Lunger Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$1,146
Largest grant, FY2022
$1,146
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Fran & Johanna Lunger Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’20’21’22
ReligionHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20221$1k100%
FY20214$11k100%
FY20207$20k57%
FY20182$2k100%
FY20171$1kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Religion$14kHuman Services$10kHealth$6kAnimals$5kRecreation & Sports$505

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mariners Church$6,0002n/a
FRAXA Research Foundation Inc$5,00010%
American Bible Society$1,50020%
Thru The Bible Inc$1,00010%
Special Olympics Inc$50510%
Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals Inc$50010%
NAMI National$50010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($20k), not named here.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Fran & Johanna Lunger Family Foundation

How much does Fran & Johanna Lunger Family Foundation give?
Fran & Johanna Lunger Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,146 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Fran & Johanna Lunger Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Human Services (28%), Health (16%).
Who are Fran & Johanna Lunger Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Mariners Church ($6k), FRAXA Research Foundation Inc ($5k), American Bible Society ($2k).
Does Fran & Johanna Lunger Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Fran & Johanna Lunger Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Fran & Johanna Lunger Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Fran & Johanna Lunger Family Foundation based?
Fran & Johanna Lunger Family Foundation is based in MA.

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 12 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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