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Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOMEWORKS TRENTON | $1,000,000 |
| HOMEWORKS TRENTON | $500,000 |
| ELEVATED ACCESS INC | $450,000 |
| ELEVATED ACCESS INC | $50,000 |
| WOMENS BEAN PROJECT | $40,000 |
| BAIL PROJECT INC | $20,000 |
| NEO PHILANTHROPY INC | $20,000 |
| LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| SISTER SONG INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
Elevated Access Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $550k · revenue +47% · 27% of their budget- WBWOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT7× · 2018–2024 · $225k · revenue +65%
THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue ×11
Funded once
ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -25%
GIRLS WHO CODE INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +5%
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.
To provide and encourage an engaged, thoughtful feminist response to mainstream and popular culture.
Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…
Supporting black girls by creating safe places where they can strenghten their skills to become advocates activist and change agents in their community
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
Blackfem partners with the nation's most forward-thinking governmental bodies and activists to reimagine wealth building opportunities for black women.
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.
How Women Lead elevates diverse women in the corporate, public, philanthropic, and and nonprofit sectors by cultivating a robust network that trains and connects women executives who are catalysts in their fields. We collectively donate to…
Girls in tech is a social networking enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology fields around the world.
World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…
W.O.M.A.N., Inc. supports survivors of domestic violence and their loved ones along their healing journeys, bridging value rich networks designed to address intersections of violence. In all our work, we strive to continually increase our…
GEC partners with locally-led organizations to catalyze and support sustainable, community-driven solutions that remove social, economic, and gender-based barriers keeping girls out of school in under-resourced regions of the global south.
Leadership Womens mission is to ensure womens full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic, and public life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is Elevated Access Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
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 HomeWorks Trenton ↗
- Who funds Elevated Access Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BEAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds Higher Heights Leadership Fund ↗
- Who funds Women for Afghan Women Inc ↗
- Who funds SHE SHOULD RUN ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS CODE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN GIRLS DO INC ↗
- Who funds ADA DEVELOPERS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERSONG 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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation 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.
- HomeWorks Trenton — 6% 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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