· Private foundation
Peter Luce 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAST WOODS SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| CITIZEN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN | $30,000 |
| WEILL CORNELL SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES | $25,000 |
| 10000 BRAINS PROJECT | $25,000 |
| BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE | $20,000 |
| FIRST TEE - METROPOLITAN NY | $15,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $12,500 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| YOUNTVILLE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR INTEGRITY IN NEWS REPORTING | $5,000 |
| CHILDHELP | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OYSTER BAY | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 4 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- CCCORNELL COLLEGE2× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +39%
- CBCLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN4× · 2021–2025 · $73k · revenue +64%
- WOWINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM3× · 2020–2023 · $70k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- FIFREEDOMWORKS INCone grant, 2021 · $77k · revenue -48%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $50k
- MRMyeloma Research at Weill Cornellone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The intrepid fallen heroes fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress, and other severe injuries.the intrepid fallen heroes fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is St Helena Hospital Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 92 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 CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CLARE BOOTHE LUCE CENTER FOR CONSERVATIVE WOMEN ↗
- Who funds WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN JOURNALISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST WOODS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAUMSETT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds St Helena Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds CUREPSP INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OYSTER BAY INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCE ↗
- Who funds DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds SEMPER K9 ASSISTANCE DOGS ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH SHORE LAND ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLAS SOCIETY 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: The Valley Rock Foundation · Deborah J & Peter a Magowan Foundation Inc · Farrell Family Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Donors Trust Inc · The New York Community Trust · Christian Community Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Greater Houston Community 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 Peter Luce Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% 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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