· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of Luminate Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| Data and Society Research Institute | $650,000 |
| Red en Defensa de los Derechos Digitales (R3D) | $650,000 |
| Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) | $600,000 |
| Tifa Foundation | $550,000 |
| Inter-American Foundation | $500,000 |
| Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) | $500,000 |
| CalMatters | $500,000 |
| International Women's Media Foundation | $480,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $450,550 |
| Individual grant recipient | $450,000 |
| Access Now | $450,000 |
| Lighthouse Reports | $432,750 |
| Human Dignity Trust | $405,300 |
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 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.
Your 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 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
Beyond the US — 51% of all-years giving ($88M)
29 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you 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
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
- 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 ×12
- WOWASHINGTON OFFICE ON LATIN AMERICAone grant, 2019 · $770k · revenue -32%
- GFGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INCone grant, 2022 · $700k · revenue -31%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Forward Impact and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 19 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
74 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. 74 of the 263 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Luminate Foundation Inc 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.
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% 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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