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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 FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$425k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Philanthropy$6.0MPublic Benefit$1.4MInternational$732kCrime & Legal$450kEducation$288kHealth$250kEmployment$250kHuman Services$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k4 grants · $500k
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.4M
$250,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MORAL COMPASS FEDERATION$425,000
ARC RESEARCH INSTITUTE$250,000
SEATTLE FOUNDATION$250,000
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE$250,000
PER SCHOLAS INC$250,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$200,000
CAMFED USA FOUNDATION$100,000
FAMM FOUNDATION$100,000
THE ROOTS OF PROGRESS$100,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE ROOTS OF PROGRESS: $100k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

03Your 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
Center for Democracy and Technology

Advocating for public policies that advance democratic values in the digital age.

Civil Rights
2
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
3
Digital Harbor Foundation

Democratizing societal and economic well-being through digital equity for everyone, increased diversity in the tech sector, innovative education, and technology for the public good

Education
4
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
5
Democracy Works Inc

The organization's mission is to leverage web-technologies to improve civic engagement and voter education.

Civil Rights
6
Us Digital Response

U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…

Public Safety & Disaster
7
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

8
Finreglab Inc

Finreglab is a d.c.-based research organization working at the intersection of financial innovation and public policy. our mission is to advance technology and data use to help people and small businesses manage their financial lives,…

Science & Tech
9
Accion International

Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…

International
10
Middle East Investment Initiative Inc

Middle east investment initiative, inc. (meii) stimulates sustainable economic activity and long-lasting job creation in the middle east and north africa (mena) by designing and deploying finance and technical assistance programs to…

Community Improvement
11
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc

See Schedule OThe mission of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc. ("EFF") is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.

12
International Republican Institute

Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Moral Compass Federation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Consumer Choice Education. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
4/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $5,000,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDThe Renew Democracy Initiative Inc — $1,000,000 · EducationThe Renew Democ…CONSUMER CHOICE EDUCATION — $288,000 · EducationCONSUMER CHOICE…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $750,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWI…SEATTLE FOUNDATION — $250,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOU…Dignitas Ukraine Inc — $250,000 · InternationalDigital Citizen Fund Inc — $150,000 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $100,000 · InternationalAfghanevac — $32,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $250,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $200,000 · Civil RightsMORAL COMPASS FEDERATION INC — $425,000 · Public BenefitHOSPITALLERS UKRAINE AID LIMITED — $200,000 · OtherHOSPITALLE…FAMM FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherFAMM FOUND…PER SCHOLAS INC — $250,000 · OtherPER SCHOLA…Arc Research Institute — $250,000 · OtherArc Resear…THE ROOTS OF PROGRESS — $100,000 · OtherTHE ROOTS …
Community Improvement$5,000,000Education$1,288,000Philanthropy$1,000,000International$532,000Civil Rights$450,000Public Benefit$425,000Other$900,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $5,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Renew Democracy Initiative Inc — $1,000,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $750,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMORAL COMPASS FEDERATION INC — $425,000 over 1y, 95% of budgetCONSUMER CHOICE EDUCATION — $288,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDignitas Ukraine Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE — $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetArc Research Institute — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDigital Citizen Fund Inc — $150,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE ROOTS OF PROGRESS — $100,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA11.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization Lum 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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