Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Luminate Foundation Inc
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.
- $22M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 91
- Grants FY2024
- 114
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 155
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Luminate Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 84 | $21M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 114 | $28M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 129 | $33M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 155 | $38M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 126 | $47M | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $770k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| East-West Management Institute Inc | $3,932,568 | 5 | 4% |
| Data & Society Research Institute Inc | $3,412,500 | 5 | 23% |
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $2,800,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Access Now | $2,512,500 | 5 | 6% |
| Avina Americas Inc | $2,450,000 | 4 | 18% |
| United We Dream Network Inc | $2,350,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Natural Resource Governance Institute | $2,280,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Color of Changeorg Education Fund | $2,257,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Open Contracting Partnership | $2,250,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Media Development Investment Fund Inc | $1,945,235 | 5 | 8% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 186 recipients with no EIN on record ($110M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Luminate Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Ford Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Open Society Institute · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Humanity United · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · John S and James L Knight Foundation
How this is measured
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About Luminate Foundation Inc
- How much does Luminate Foundation Inc give?
- Luminate Foundation Inc reported 91 grants totaling $22,499,637 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 155 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Luminate Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (23%), Public Benefit (21%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Luminate Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: East-West Management Institute Inc ($3.9M), Data & Society Research Institute Inc ($3.4M), NEO Philanthropy Inc ($2.8M).
- Does Luminate Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Luminate Foundation Inc 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 Luminate Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation to Promote Open Society, The Ford Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
- Where is Luminate Foundation Inc based?
- Luminate Foundation Inc is based in DC.
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