· Private foundation
Lugers Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE | $1,000 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN OF OTTAWAALLEGAN | $1,000 |
| HOLLAND YOUTH TENNIS | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KFKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +16%
- BHBENJAMIN'S HOPE8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +212%
- HHHARBOR HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +64%
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.
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.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The mission of the humane society is to save and enhance the lives of pets through cooperative and innovative approaches to adoption, spay/neuter, sheltering and community engagement.
Summit assistance dogs is a nonprofit organization that creates life-changing partnerships by providing highly-trained mobility assistance dogs for people living with disabilities.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Provide care for homeless/abused animals
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
Spokanimal leads communities in humane/proactive ways to promote and preserve the human-companion animal bond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids' Food Basket Inc and the most unlike its peers is Odc Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 38 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds KIDS' FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN'S HOPE ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GUMBO LIMBO COASTAL STEWARDS INC ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCE ADVOCATES FOR ENDING VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds ODC NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE ↗
- Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds CRITTER BARN ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · Grand Haven Area Community Foundation Inc · Merle & Sheri Dewitt Foundation · Jim and Ginger Jurries Foundation · Douglas & Sandra Dekock Family Foun · De Witt Families Conduit Foundation · John and Judy Spoelhof Foundation · The Samuel L Westerman Foundation · Pat & Herb Eldean Family Foundation · Tim and Nancy Vande Bunte Family Foundation · Howard Miller Foundation · Marvin G & Jerene L Dewitt Family Foundation
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 organization 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.
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 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.