· Private foundation
Lucretius Foundation Inc
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
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION CHOP FOUNDATION FOR TWIN PREGNANCIES | $100,000 |
| STORM KING ART CENTER | $50,000 |
| BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM | $35,000 |
| OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL FUND | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LES ARTS FORISSANTS | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
How this is measured
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 +88% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SKSTORM KING ART CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $460k · revenue +66%
- PCPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2024 · $380k · revenue +57%
- OSOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +219%
Funded once
- BCBRICK CHURCH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $20k
- TBTHE BROWNING SCHOOL-ANNUAL FUNDone grant, 2020 · $20k
- BCBRICK CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $13k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Education and Research
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 25 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 STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GOOD COUNSEL INC ↗
- Who funds ARC ATHENS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR AGING RESEARCH INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lucretius Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lucretius Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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