Skip to content
Lurie Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Lurie Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

80% of Lurie Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 25 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

26
’21
34
’22
38
’23
31
’24
25
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$4.0MHealth$1.3MEducation$539kArts & Culture$306kHuman Services$276kHousing & Shelter$110kYouth Development$77kFood & Nutrition$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $225k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOLDMAN SACHS PHILANTHROPY FUND$1,113,835
EXCEPTIONAL MINDS$25,000
CLARK UNIVERSITY$25,000
ISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC$20,000
MEDERI CENTER FOUNDATION$20,000
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA$20,000
FRAXA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$15,000
MARTHAS VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC$10,000
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION$10,000
SUNDANCE INSTITUTE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY INC$10,000
UPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN$10,000
A STEP UP ACADEMY INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $301k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $10k → 22%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $250 → 14%UPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $10k → 22%A SENSE OF HOME: $250 → 14%UPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $10k → 22%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $25k → 14%UPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $10k → 22%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $25k → 14%PROJECT HOME: $50k → 22%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $25k → 14%PROJECT HOME: $50k → 22%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $25k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $25k → 14%PROJECT HOME: $10k → 22%UPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $10k → 22%GARCES FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%GARCES FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%GARCES FOUNDATION: $5k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CA
UT
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 35 repeat orgs$443k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
37

Total granted

$2.3M
$412k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+16%

Still filing today

89%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $908k · revenue +32%
  • TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +30%
  • EM
    EXCEPTIONAL MINDS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -32%
  • F
    FRAXA
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • BG
    BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -34%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
4
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
5
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

—
6
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
7
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
8
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

—
9
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
10
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

—
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hoyt Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 81 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
45/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $3,631,469 · PhilanthropyGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INCJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $300,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA+7 more: $72,500 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $907,500 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPIT…ISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC: $100,000 · HealthISLAND AUTISM GROUP I…FRAXA Research Foundation Inc: $90,000 · HealthFRAXA Research Founda…ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $42,500 · Health+6 more: $80,500 · Health+6 moreRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $125,000 · EducationA STEP UP ACADEMY INC: $52,000 · EducationSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $37,500 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $20,000 · Education+7 more: $27,500 · EducationEXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $125,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOME: $110,000 · Human ServicesUPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $50,000 · Human ServicesGARCES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human Services+2 more: $500 · Human ServicesPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $70,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSundance Institute: $47,500 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN DOCUMENTARY INC: $28,500 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherFRAXA: $25,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $20,500 · OtherMEDERI CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $20,000 · OtherKARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS: $15,000 · OtherPegasus Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc: $12,500 · OtherAUDUBON FLORIDA: $10,000 · OtherANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $12,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF PALM BEACH INC: $10,000 · OtherEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,000 · Other+22 more: $64,500 · OtherMV YOUTH INC: $76,999 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$4,003,969Health$1,270,500Education$512,000Human Services$300,500Arts & Culture$276,000Other$270,000Youth Development$76,999

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC: $3,631,469 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $907,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL MINDS: $125,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT HOME: $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetISLAND AUTISM GROUP INC: $100,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetFRAXA Research Foundation Inc: $90,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetMV YOUTH INC: $76,999 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetA STEP UP ACADEMY INC: $52,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUPLIFT CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN: $50,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSundance Institute: $47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $42,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD FILM SOCIETY INC: $40,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN DOCUMENTARY INC: $28,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVETRI FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CAMERON M NEELY FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDERI FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKARTEMQUIN EDUCATIONAL FILMS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGARCES FAMILY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPegasus Therapeutic Riding Academy Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF PALM BEACH INC: $10,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS LATIN FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPALM BEACH COUNTRY CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE SEAHAWKS WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCHILDREN'S CRISIS TREATMENT CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALKING IRIS MEDIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOYT LIBRARY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…Henry Dolfinger 2 Tru…The Patricia Kind Fam…Dmr Family Foundation…Perspective Media Ini…Glff IncThe Saramar Charitabl…Future Standard Found…Henrietta Tower Wurts…The Barra Foundation …The Snider FoundationConnelly Foundation
The Philadelphia FoundationPA20.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Dmr Family Foundation Inc · Perspective Media Initiatives Inc · Glff Inc · The Saramar Charitable Fund · Future Standard Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Snider Foundation · Connelly 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lurie Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lurie Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Film Society Inc: 2% of income from government
  • United Way of Palm Beach County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Emmanuel College: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lurie Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lurie Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 81 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Lurie Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home