Massachusetts · Private foundation
George H Lusk Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $359k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations George H Lusk Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $28k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $29k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $33k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $33k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $19k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falmouth Housing Corporation | $21,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Falmouth Service Center Inc | $19,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation Inc | $14,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Falmouth Education Foundation Inc | $11,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Woods Hole Public Library | $10,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The 300 Committee Land Trust Inc | $9,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Woods Hole Community Association Inc | $7,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc | $5,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Farming Falmouth Inc | $5,250 | 5 | 1% |
| Friends of Fairwinds Inc | $4,750 | 6 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falmouth Housing Corporation | $21,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Falmouth Service Center Inc | $19,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation Inc | $14,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Falmouth Education Foundation Inc | $11,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Woods Hole Public Library | $10,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The 300 Committee Land Trust Inc | $9,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Woods Hole Community Association Inc | $7,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc | $5,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Farming Falmouth Inc | $5,250 | 5 | 1% |
| Friends of Fairwinds Inc | $4,750 | 6 | 3% |
| Falmouth Artists Guild Inc | $4,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Marine Biological Laboratory | $4,250 | 6 | 0% |
| The Falmouth Chorale Inc | $3,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Recovery Without Walls Inc | $3,250 | 6 | 1% |
| Friends of Falmouth Bikeways Inc | $3,000 | 6 | 9% |
| Buzzards Bay Coalition | $3,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Woods Hole Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Lawrence School PTO | $200 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget George H Lusk Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Stanley W Watson Foundation · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation · Harken Foundation · Hermann Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Normandie Foundation Inc · Friendship Fund Inc
How this is measured
About George H Lusk Trust
- How much does George H Lusk Trust give?
- George H Lusk Trust reported 23 grants totaling $29,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does George H Lusk Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are George H Lusk Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Falmouth Housing Corporation ($21k), Falmouth Service Center Inc ($19k), Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation Inc ($15k).
- Does George H Lusk Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does George H Lusk Trust 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 George H Lusk Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stanley W Watson Foundation, Cape Cod Foundation Inc, Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation.
- Where is George H Lusk Trust based?
- George H Lusk Trust is based in MA.
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