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Lukaj Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $195k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $110,860 |
| Individual grant recipient | $84,000 |
| ALBIANIAN AMERICAN HUMANITARIAN FUN | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,500 |
| GJERGI KASTRIOTTI SCHOLATSHIP FUND | $32,500 |
| YMCA OF GREENWICH | $24,000 |
| GREENWICH UNITED WAY | $6,125 |
| A BETTER CHANCE | $6,000 |
| STAMFORD POLICE FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| GIG'S PLAYHOUSE | $6,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE-HIGHLAND PARK CAPERNUM | $6,000 |
| THE HUMAN SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| HARLEM LACROSSE | $6,000 |
| THE CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH | $6,000 |
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, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k 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
- ABA BETTER CHANCE INC6× · 2018–2024 · $42k · revenue +3%
- HLHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +37%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC3× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NJone grant, 2023 · $100k
- AUAMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN KOone grant, 2018 · $40k
- AAALBANIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL FOUNDATone grant, 2020 · $31k
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.
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.
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Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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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…
Under the auspices of the united nations and guided by its ideals, the united nations international school (unis) provides an inclusive and diverse learning environment in which rigorous international programs foster academic excellence,…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Success Academy Charter Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Niserza Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
59 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. 59 of the 159 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.
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- Who funds HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Hitchcock Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds THORNTON DONOVAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZIL FOUNDATION ↗
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: American Express Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings 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 Lukaj Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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