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Lucid Art 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.

$500
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2022
50%
First-time grantees FY2022
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100% of Lucid Art Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to New Mexico Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’17
1
’18
2
’21
2
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2023
$500
Largest grant, FY2023
$500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$77M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 50% of the organizations Lucid Art Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’21’22
Social ScienceArts & Culture
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20222$2k50%
FY20212$2k50%
FY20181$2k0%
FY20173$6kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$5kScience & Tech$5kSocial Science$1kInternational$600Philanthropy$500

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dance Palace$4,72040%
The Aspen Institute Inc$1,00010%
Families Without Borders$60010%
Gallery Route One$50010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.

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How do I get to Lucid Art Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lucid Art 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.

About Lucid Art Foundation

How much does Lucid Art Foundation give?
Lucid Art Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $500 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Lucid Art Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Science & Tech (41%), Social Science (8%).
Who are Lucid Art Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Dance Palace ($5k), The Aspen Institute Inc ($1k), Families Without Borders ($600).
Does Lucid Art Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lucid Art Foundation 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.
Where is Lucid Art Foundation based?
Lucid Art Foundation is based in CA.

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 6 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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