· Private foundation
Lucas Wegmann 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAPONTE STRING QUARTET FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHORUS OF WESTERLY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $40,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +1090% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TLTRAIL LIFE USA3× · 2018–2023 · $195k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2024–2025 · $100k
- TCThe Chorus of Westerly Inc2× · 2017–2023 · $66k · revenue -38%
Funded once
- AOAMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +31%
- CBCOLLEGE BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $50k
- JAJoseph and Alice McKeen Study Centerone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -90%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Bringing classical music to the Merrimac Valley
Educate member-singers and the public through the performance of renaissance choral music
Down East Singers is a musical organization specifically incorporated to create opportunities for participation and enrichment for community members, to perform quality choral music under professional leadership, and to bring affordable…
Our mission is to unite vocal musicians who share the joy of learning and performing diverse repertoire. Our varied programming is designed to engage and inspire both performers and audience members. We are committed to building a richer,…
Our purpose is to study and perform the world's great choral music
The Corporation shall organize and maintain a chorus to perform and record vocal and choral settings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetry, written from 1840 to the present, shall inspire and commission new vocal and choral settings of…
Performance of choral music
VISION: Every community, regardless of geography, population, or wealth, has the right to fully experience the breadth and vibrancy of the modern choral tradition, and the fruits of our shared cultural inheritance. MISSION STATEMENT: Una…
choral performances
Arts Education
The Monmouth Civic Chorus presents concerts of classical music for audiences in New Jersey and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Chorus of Westerly Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 16 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Chorus of Westerly Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAPONTE STRING QUARTET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOIR SCHOOL OF NEWPORT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Joseph and Alice McKeen Study Center ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SAENGERFEST MENS CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST HUMANE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lucas Wegmann Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.