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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.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
44%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$40,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$30M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
Civil RightsEducationInternationalCrime & LegalEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving7$2.1M29%
FY20239$205k44%
FY20228$160k0%
FY20218$160k50%
FY20205$100k40%
FY20193$55k0%
FY20183$40kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.6MHealth$550kEmployment$225kCivil Rights$215kPhilanthropy$80kInternational$60kPublic Benefit$55kCrime & Legal$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
NJ
CA
CO
TN
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
HomeWorks Trenton$1,500,000145%
Elevated Access Inc$550,000227%
Women's Bean Project$225,00072%
The Loveland Foundation Inc$105,00051%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$80,00070%
Higher Heights Leadership Fund$60,00022%
Women for Afghan Women Inc$60,00030%
She Should Run$55,00032%
Black Girls Code Inc$45,00030%
The Bail Project Inc$40,00020%
Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
HomeWorks Trenton$1,500,000145%
Elevated Access Inc$550,000227%
Women's Bean Project$225,00072%
The Loveland Foundation Inc$105,00051%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$80,00070%
Higher Heights Leadership Fund$60,00022%
Women for Afghan Women Inc$60,00030%
She Should Run$55,00032%
Black Girls Code Inc$45,00030%
The Bail Project Inc$40,00020%
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc$40,00020%
Brown Girls Do Inc$35,00035%
Ada Developers Academy$20,00010%
Girls Who Code Inc$15,00010%
Sistersong Inc$10,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Where it is load-bearing

Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHomeWorks Trenton: $1,500,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetElevated Access Inc: $550,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetWomen's Bean Project: $225,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetThe Loveland Foundation Inc: $105,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $80,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHigher Heights Leadership Fund: $60,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetWomen for Afghan Women Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetShe Should Run: $55,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetBlack Girls Code Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Bail Project Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHighlander Research & Education Center Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBrown Girls Do Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetAda Developers Academy: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGirls Who Code Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSistersong Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE9.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation

How much does Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation give?
Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation reported 10 grants totaling $2,120,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (55%), Health (19%), Employment (8%).
Who are Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: HomeWorks Trenton ($1.5M), Elevated Access Inc ($550k), Women's Bean Project ($225k).
Does Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation 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 Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation based?
Lumena Foundation a New Jersey Nonprofit Corporation is based in DE.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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