· Private foundation
Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $221k
- $50k–250k33 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIOBUS INC | $200,000 |
| THE HALO TRUST (USA) INC | $199,525 |
| FRIENDS OF ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE | $175,230 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE JAMES MARTIN CENTER FOR NONPROL | $150,000 |
| RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE | $140,000 |
| NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $131,165 |
| ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES INSTITUT DE FRANCE | $130,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMAM ALABAMA WATER INSTITUTE | $125,000 |
| ALBERTINE FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE EPINIERE | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES | $125,000 |
| BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CS INC | $125,000 |
| ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES INSTITUT DE FRANCE | $105,000 |
| KENNAN INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
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 US giving — 76% of grant dollars ($17M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 24% that went abroad ($5.3M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $260k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 — 24% of all-years giving ($5.3M)
20 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 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +18% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 34 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +3%- BIBIOBUS INC4× · 2020–2025 · $507k · revenue +150%
- CFCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PRESIDENCY & CONGRESS4× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- APAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $399k · revenue 0%
- CFCENTER FOR MARITIME RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION NATO SCIENCE AND TECH ORGone grant, 2023 · $300k
- CFCENTER FOR MARITIME RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATIONone grant, 2022 · $300k
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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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.
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Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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…
The American Academy of Sciences and Letters (AASL) promotes scholarship and honors outstanding achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. It encourages the fruitful exchange of ideas within academia and society at large…
The graduate school of the stowers institute for medical research ("gssimr") exempt purpose is to provide graduate education that will prepare scholars for scientific research in the biological sciences.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seti Institute and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. 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 33 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
116 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. 116 of the 254 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 NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds BIOBUS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PRESIDENCY & CONGRESS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Albertine Foundation ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds SETI INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Internet Archive ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSIDAD SIMON BOLIVAR ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Journal of Emerging Investigators Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH-AMERICAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HALO TRUST (USA) INC ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
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: Carnegie Corporation of New York · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Alfred P Sloan Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ford Foundation · The Simons Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Pinkerton Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Johns Hopkins University
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 Richard Lounsbery 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.
- Scientific Committee On Oceanic Research — 74% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc — 1% 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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