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· Private foundation
LUGERS FAMILY FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$44k
Granted FY2024
24
Grants
4
Communities
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of LUGERS FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2024 · 24 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$937k
Total assets
Largest grants
- HOLLAND EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$6,000
- KID'S FOOD BASKET$4,000
- MARY FREE BED FOUNDATION$4,000
- BENJAMIN'S HOPE$3,000
- USTAMIDWEST TENNIS & EDUCATIONAL F$2,500
- HARBOR HUMANE SOCIETY$2,250
- PAWS WITH A CAUSE$2,000
- RESILIENCEADV FOR ENDING VIOLENCE$2,000
- GUMBO LIMBO NATURE CENTER$2,000
- CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER$2,000
- DOWN SYNDROME ASSOC OF W MI$1,500
- LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND$1,000
- SPECTRUM SAILING$1,000
- COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE$1,000
- OUTDOOR DISCOVERY CENTER$1,000
02The need
03
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$290k · 30 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else
30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
30
5
Total granted
$290k
$4k
Still filing today
27%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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
- BHBENJAMIN'S HOPE8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +212%
- HHHARBOR HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +64%
- PWPAWS WITH A CAUSE8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- HAHOLLAND ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT-HPSone grant, 2021 · $2k
- HHHOLLAND HIGH SR CLASS PARTY-HPSone grant, 2021 · $2k
- HAHOLLAND AREA VISITORS BUREAUone grant, 2020 · $500
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Summit Assistance Dogs
To create life-changing partnerships by providing highly-trained mobility assistance dogs for people living with disabilities.
Human Services
2
Happy Paws Haven Co
Happy Paws Haven Co. is a foster based animal rescue agency that helps animals in need.
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3
Hero Dogs Inc
Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.
Human Services
4
Dogs Playing for Life Inc
Dogs playing for life is redefining the meaning and importance of quality of life for all sheltered dogs by improving their experience through playgroups and individualized training, resulting in urgent and responsible livesaving.
Animals
5
Golden Paws Assistance Dogs Inc
Golden PAWS Assistance Dogs is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that promotes independence for combat-wounded veterans, first responders and children with life-changing disabilities through partnerships with skilled assistance dogs.
Human Services
6
Paws of Grays Harbor
PAWS of Grays Harbor protects dogs and cats until united with a family.
Animals
7
Canines for Service Inc
CFS seeks to inspire veterans through life-changing canine partnerships.
Human Services
8
Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter Inc
Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty
Animals
9
Little Angels Service Dogs
Training and placing assistance dog with disabled children and adults throughout the United States.
Human Services
10
Connecticut Humane Society
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare.
Animals
11
Paw Patrol Animal Rescue and Sanctuary
Our mission is to provide animal rescue and re-homing.
Animals
12
Canine Helpers for the Handicapped Inc
To unite deserving people with highly trained, disability specific dogs in order to achieve a high degree of independence for the clients.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Sunshine and the most unlike its peers is Leader Dogs for the Blind. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$209,466Human Services$61,000Animals$17,650Arts & Culture$16,000
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.
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.
The Community Foundation of TheMI15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of The · Pat & Herb Eldean Family Foundation · Tim and Nancy Vande Bunte Family · The Samuel L Westerman Foundation · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · Grand Haven Area Community · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation LUGERS FAMILY 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GUMBO LIMBO NATURE CENTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 592015726 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on GUMBO LIMBO NATURE CENTER, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Lugers Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Lugers Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines