New York · Private foundation
Lum 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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $425,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 6
- FY2022 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $28M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Lum Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $1.7M | 100% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $2.5M | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $150k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Renew Democracy Initiative Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 18% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $750,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Moral Compass Federation Inc | $425,000 | 1 | 95% |
| Consumer Choice Education | $288,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Per Scholas Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dignitas Ukraine Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Institute for Justice | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Arc Research Institute | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Digital Citizen Fund Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 15% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Renew Democracy Initiative Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 18% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $750,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Moral Compass Federation Inc | $425,000 | 1 | 95% |
| Consumer Choice Education | $288,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Per Scholas Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dignitas Ukraine Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Institute for Justice | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Arc Research Institute | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Equal Justice Initiative | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Digital Citizen Fund Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 15% |
| The Roots of Progress | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Camfed USA Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Afghanevac | $32,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($300k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lum Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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How do I get to Lum Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Lum 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 Lum Foundation
- How much does Lum Foundation give?
- Lum Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $1,925,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
- What does Lum Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (63%), Public Benefit (15%), International (8%).
- Who are Lum Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: The Renew Democracy Initiative Inc ($1.0M), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($750k), Moral Compass Federation Inc ($425k).
- Does Lum Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lum 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lum Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Lum Foundation based?
- Lum Foundation is based in NY.
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