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JLuz Foundation

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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$38kHealth$28kArts & Culture$25kEducation$20kFood & Nutrition$9kHousing & Shelter$8kHuman Services$6kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $63k
$12,600
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BMCHS$20,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
Leadership Theatre$12,600
Baller$10,000
Phoenix Theatre$2,500
02The need
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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 (FY23–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Saving Amy: $3k → 11%Noah Homes: $3k → 11%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 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
Phoenix Rising Hope Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Alpha Project for the Homeless

Alpha Project for the Homeless (Alpha Project) was organized in February 1987 under the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law for public and charitable purposes. The mission of Alpha Project is to empower individuals, families, and…

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3
Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth

The organization provides wraparound services to meet homeless youths' immediate, emergency needs and help them transition to long-term self- sufficiency. the organization's support comes primarily from government grants and corporate…

Housing & Shelter
4
Neighborhood Wellness Foundation

Disrupting intergenerational trauma and poverty in Del Paso Heights and surrounging areas.

Community Improvement
5
Umom New Day Centers Inc

To end family homelessness by restoring hope and rebuilding lives, so no child will ever have to sleep on the streets.

Housing & Shelter
6
Project Prom of Northern Nevada

Our non-profit organization is dedicated to fostering inclusivity, joy, and empowerment within the developmentally disabled adult community through our annual prom event. Our mission is to provide a memorable and inclusive prom experience,…

Philanthropy
7
City Help Inc of Phoenix

Our mission is to reach in and mine the incredible potential we believe lies within the lives of at-risk youth, the homeless, and needy families of our community by restoring hope and allowing them to dream again.

Human Services
8
Nevada Peer Support Network Inc
Health
9
Thrive in Joy Nick Fagnano Foundation

At thrive in joy, we encourage young people to discover their character strengths and the joy of service inspired by the legacy of nick fagnano. our mission honors nick, who lost his life in 2014 when a rare and unexpected lightning strike…

Education
10
1N10 Inc

To provide support and resources for the local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (lgbtq) youth. to provide youth with life and leadership skills and the tools to improve self esteem and acceptance of who they are.

Civil Rights
11
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

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12
People Helping People

People helping people (php) is dedicated to reducing the number of children living in poverty by teaching low-income women, primarily single moms, how to earn a living wage. each year, 1,000 prospective clients enroll in our employment…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saving Amy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pacific Dental Services Foundation. 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

8 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. 8 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BMCHS: $20,000 · OtherBMCHSIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLeadership Theatre: $12,600 · OtherLeadership TheatreBaller: $10,000 · OtherBallerBishop Manogue High School-Educatio: $10,000 · OtherBishop Manogue High School-EducatioCANCER RESPONSE TEAM: $9,000 · OtherCANCER RESPONSE TEAMOur Lady of the Snows Catholic Chur: $8,000 · OtherOur Lady of the Snows Catholic ChurBeta Epsilon Phi Fraternal Catholic: $7,000 · OtherSaint Vincent De Paul: $6,000 · OtherDiocese of Reno Our Lady of the Sn: $5,000 · OtherOhio State University Dental School: $5,000 · OtherDiocese of Reno St Rose Catholic: $5,000 · OtherDCI Dental Care International: $4,969 · Other+6 more: $17,400 · Other+6 moreNOAH HOMES INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesSAVING AMY INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterMOMS ON THE RUN: $5,000 · HealthLEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 · Public BenefitTHE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY: $2,500 · Arts & CultureUrban Grinders: $1,000 · EducationPACIFIC DENTAL SERVICES FOUNDATION: $1,000 · International
Other$139,969Human Services$6,000Housing & Shelter$5,000Health$5,000Public Benefit$3,000Arts & Culture$2,500Education$1,000International$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOMS ON THE RUN: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNOAH HOMES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVING AMY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUrban Grinders: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPACIFIC DENTAL SERVICES FOUNDATION: $1,000 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.

  • Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds MOMS ON THE RUN ↗
  • Who funds NOAH HOMES INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGACY YOUTH LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds SAVING AMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHOENIX THEATRE COMPANY AND SUBSIDIARY ↗
  • Who funds Urban Grinders ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC DENTAL SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗

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 ProgramPA7.9× 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2023
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to JLuz Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to JLuz Foundation 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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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