· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k54 grants · $8.3M
- $250k+34 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | $1,000,000 |
| East West Management Institute | $860,673 |
| Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D) | $650,000 |
| Data and Society Research Institute | $650,000 |
| Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) | $600,000 |
| Tifa Foundation | $550,000 |
| Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) | $500,000 |
| CalMatters | $500,000 |
| Inter-American Foundation | $500,000 |
| International Women's Media Foundation | $480,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $450,550 |
| Access Now | $450,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $450,000 |
| Lighthouse Reports | $432,750 |
| Human Dignity Trust | $405,300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 49% of grant dollars ($86M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 51% that went abroad ($88M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 51% of all-years giving ($88M)
29 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
173 repeat relationships: 63 still active in FY2024, 110 since wound down; 21 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EMEAST-WEST MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3.9M · revenue +118%
- DSDATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +2%
NEO Philanthropy Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $2.8M · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CHCIVIC HALL LABS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.3M · revenue +494%
- WOWASHINGTON OFFICE ON LATIN AMERICAone grant, 2019 · $770k · revenue -32%
- GFGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INCone grant, 2022 · $700k · revenue -31%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
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…
To secure concrete commitments from governments to their citizenry to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption and harness new technologies to strengthen citizen centered governance.
Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
Reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. we focus on the intersection of developing countries and the governments, institutions…
The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
Pro publica is an independent, non-profit, pulitzer prize-winning newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. our work focuses exclusively on truly important stories. [see continuation on schedule o] we produce…
How this is measured
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 263 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds EAST-WEST MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DATA & SOCIETY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds ACCESS NOW ↗
- Who funds AVINA AMERICAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCE GOVERNANCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Open Contracting Partnership ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDIA DEVELOPMENT INVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MORE IN COMMON INC ↗
- Who funds ACCOUNTABILITY COUNSEL ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FUSE Corps ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIVIC HALL LABS INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Luminate Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Luminate Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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