· Private foundation
Norton M Luger and Rosalind Massow Luger Charitable Trust I
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of NORTON M LUGER AND ROSALIND MASSOW LUGER CHARITABLE TRUST I’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 · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $282k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON STUDIO SCHOOL | $115,000 |
| THE INTERCEPT MEDIA | $35,000 |
| EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS | $35,000 |
| LIVE ARTS NEW YORK | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| HANNAH ARENDT CENTER CO THE BARD COLLEGE | $35,000 |
| TWO RIVERS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN | $15,000 |
| ESTHER PRODUCTIONS INC | $12,000 |
| ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC | $10,000 |
| NOPE ORGANIZE FOR DEMOCRACY FUND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC JUFJ | $6,000 |
| GLEN ECHO PARK PARTNERSHIP | $5,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY24–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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
- WSWashington Studio School2× · 2024–2025 · $130k · revenue 0%
- EBEAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY2× · 2024–2025 · $73k · revenue -8%
- TITHE INTERCEPT MEDIA2× · 2024–2025 · $70k
Funded once
- LALIVE ARTS NEW YORK LIVE COREone grant, 2024 · $40k
- ACACTBLUE CIVICS INCone grant, 2024 · $35k
- BCBARD COLLEGEHANNAH ARENDT CENTERone grant, 2024 · $35k
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.
Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…
The District of Columbia Arts Center serves the Washington DC area by presenting high caliber and challenging works. It encourages professionalism among artists by providing a forum for educational and cultural exchange. DCAC was founded…
Young Playwrights Theater (YPT) is committed to using theater & writing to foster dialogue, arts education, literacy & conflict resolution in communities.
Imagination stage of washington, dc, inc. empowers all young people to discover their voice and identity through performing arts education and professional theatre.
The DC Independent Film Festival (DCIFF) showcases and supports local and international filmmakers and their work across the genres of fiction, animation, experimental and documentary through screening, discussion, professional…
The Thirteen is a professional choir and orchestra with a mission to inspire the soul to sing, move the heart to empathy, and build community, all through groundbreaking musical performance: through concerts, workshops, education outreach,…
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
The theatre lab provides classes and workshops to adults and youth in the areas of acting for the stage and screen, directing, playwriting, musical theatre, and drama criticism. the organization also conducts extensive outreach…
The National Philharmonic engages, inspires, and unites diverse communities across the Washington, DC area through outstanding music performances and innovative education programs.
Capital Fringe was founded in 2005 with a mission to celebrate cultural democracy and access to art and artistic expression for all. By embracing diversity and a spirit of independence, we create earning opportunities for individual…
Washington project for the arts, inc. (wpa) supports artist-driven projects, advocacy, and dialogue so that artists can live, work, and flourish.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Dc Central Kitchen Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Spoken Word the Spoken Word. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 47 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
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 Washington Studio School ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY PERFORMING ARTS dba OAKLAND SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds TWO RIVERS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ESTHER PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds COLLABORISING INC ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds The SPOKEN WORD The Spoken Word ↗
- Who funds Urban Tilth ↗
- Who funds GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK STUDENT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ALLPEOPLEBEHAPPY (F/K/A AMIZADE LTD) ↗
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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Norton M Luger and Rosalind Massow Luger Charitable Trust I 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.
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% 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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