· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| DAPONTE STRING QUARTET FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHORUS OF WESTERLY | $50,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $40,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1090% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +28%
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lucas Wegmann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lucas Wegmann Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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