Michigan · Public charity
Lumani Foundation
Provide educational support for students that need financial assistance to be able to afford an education.
- $174k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $165k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $16,324
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $52,080
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 7
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $266k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Lumani Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $165k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $150k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $154k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $124k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakland University | $175,393 | 4 | n/a |
| Bright Horizons Childrens Centers LLC Dba Discovery Preschoo | $121,274 | 4 | n/a |
| Wayne State University | $96,574 | 4 | n/a |
| Roeper City and Country School Inc | $85,444 | 2 | 0% |
| Lawrence Technological University | $36,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Brookfield Academy Education Foundation | $19,850 | 2 | n/a |
| Eastern Michigan University Foundation | $16,131 | 2 | 0% |
| Oakland Community College Foundation | $13,154 | 1 | 1% |
| Central Michigan University | $8,221 | 1 | n/a |
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Lumani Foundation
- How much does Lumani Foundation give?
- Lumani Foundation reported 8 itemized grants totaling $164,791, out of $174,461 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 7 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Lumani Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
- Who are Lumani Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Oakland University ($175k), Bright Horizons Childrens Centers LLC Dba Discovery Preschoo ($121k), Wayne State University ($97k).
- Does Lumani Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lumani Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Lumani Foundation based?
- Lumani Foundation is based in MI.
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