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Luchsinger Family Foundation at a glance

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Luchsinger Family 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.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$384kEducation$150kFood & Nutrition$60kHealth$51kHuman Services$45kHousing & Shelter$33kCommunity Improvement$18kAnimals$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSTON FOOD BANK$15,000
BE A RESOURCE BEAR$15,000
HOUSTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
ERMC FOUNDATION$10,000
ST MARY CATHOLIC CHURCE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LOVE BEYOND WALLS: $3k → 13%BRIDGE HOUSE: $3k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $3k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $3k → 12%BE A RESOURCE BEAR: $15k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
MA
CO
NM
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$349k · 13 repeat orgs$435k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
17

Total granted

$349k
$400k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+5%

Still filing today

54%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’25
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • The Houston Food Bank
    4× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +36%
  • WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2019–2022 · $50k · revenue +33%
  • HH
    Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc
    2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
  • GS
    Good Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +17%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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.

04Its 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
The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center

The Hospice at the Texas Medical Center holds a freestanding 37 bed inpatient facility in the Texas Medical Center that is operated and managed by Houston Hospice.

Human Services
2
LifeHouse of Houston Inc

LifeHouse is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help, and hope for young women during their pregnancies and beyond.

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3
Big Bend Hospice Inc

For over 40 years, big bend hospice ("BBH "Big Bend") has been inspiring hope by positively impacting the way our community experiences serious illness or grief, one family at a time. BBH Has deep roots throughout our eith-county service…

Unclassified
4
Covenant HomeCare

Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
5
Hospice of Wichita Falls Inc

Care, hope, and support for all when illness threatens life.

Human Services
6
Houston Area Women's Center

The Houston Area Women's Center (HAWC) works to end domestic and sexual violence and supports all in building safe and healthy lives through advocacy, counseling, education, shelter, and support services.

Human Services
7
Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County

The mission of Family Service Center of Houston and Harris County (Family Houston) is to create a stronger community for tomorrow by helping individuals and families meet the challenges they face today. We help others help themselves.

Human Services
8
Hospice of South Texas Inc

Hospice care of terminally ill patients

—
9
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
10
Baylor Scott & White Holdings

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
11
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

—
12
Rebuilding Together Houston

Rebuilding Together Houston is the only organization in Houston and Harris County providing free home repairs to hundreds of families each year. We employ licensed contractors to restore homes to safe, livable conditions, extending each…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Houston Hospice; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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

15 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. 15 of the 33 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)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $300,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHThe Houston Food Bank: $60,000 · OtherThe Houston Food BankST AGNES ACADEMY: $55,000 · OtherST AGNES ACADEMYST ANNE'S CATHOLIC COMMUNITY: $55,000 · OtherST ANNE'S CATHOLIC COMMUNITYAUBURN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT: $30,000 · Other+17 more: $107,500 · Other+17 moreWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationWAKE FORES…Good Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc: $15,000 · EducationGood Samar…The Brookwood Community Inc: $10,000 · EducationThe Brookw…BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $15,000 · Human ServicesBridge House: $7,500 · Human ServicesLove Beyond Walls Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterKINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $10,000 · AnimalsMARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC: $7,500 · Community ImprovementBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $7,500 · Health
Other$637,500Education$75,000Human Services$25,500Housing & Shelter$20,000Animals$10,000Community Improvement$7,500Health$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Habitat for Humanity Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGood Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetThe Brookwood Community Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHouston Hospice: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $10,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBridge House: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHouston Museum of Natural Science: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLove Beyond Walls Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWINGS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
  • Who funds BEAR BE A RESOURCE FOR CPS KIDS ↗
  • Who funds Good Samaritan Foundation of Texas Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Brookwood Community Inc ↗
  • Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
  • Who funds KINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds MARIA DROSTE SERVICES OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds Bridge House ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
  • Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds Love Beyond Walls Inc ↗
  • Who funds WINGS FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

The Bank of America C…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Luchsinger Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Luchsinger Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
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
    5report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Luchsinger Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Luchsinger Family 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 33 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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