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· Private foundation

Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Science & Tech$8.1MArts & Culture$4.2MEducation$3.3MEnvironment$1.8MInternational$1.5MHealth$967kAnimals$546kPublic Benefit$543kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $221k
  • $50k–250k33 grants · $3.5M
$60,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES$125,000
INSTITUT DU CERVEAU ET DE LA MOELLE EPINIERE$125,000
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$125,000
FRIENDS OF CS INC$125,000
ALBERTINE FOUNDATION$125,000
ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES INSTITUT DE FRANCE$105,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA ALABAMA MATERIALS INSTITUTE$100,000
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.

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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $150k → 10%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $100k → 10%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $10k → 10%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
VT
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
SC
DC
AL
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 24% of all-years giving ($5.3M)

20 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
France$2.1M · 27 grants
Italy$764k · 6 grants
Argentina$729k · 11 grants
United Kingdom$477k · 9 grants
South Africa$180k · 2 grants
Uruguay$135k · 2 grants
Germany$135k · 2 grants
Chile$120k · 1 grant
Mexico$112k · 1 grant
New Caledonia$98k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 33% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 35 repeat orgs$14M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
177

Total granted

$7.2M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+10%

Still filing today

74%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureScience & TechInternationalEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +3%
  • BI
    BIOBUS INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $507k · revenue +150%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PRESIDENCY & CONGRESS
    4× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • AP
    AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $399k · revenue 0%
  • IO
    INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR MARITIME RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION
    one grant, 2022 · $300k
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
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
2
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
3
American Geosciences Institute

The american geosciences institute (agi) was founded in 1948, under a directive of the national academy of sciences, as a network of associations representing geoscientists with a diverse array of skills and knowledge of our planet. the…

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4
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
5
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

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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7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
8
The Graduate School of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research

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.

Education
9
American Academy of Sciences and Letters Inc

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…

Education
10
The George Washington University

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…

Education
11
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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12
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seti Institute; 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.
05the grantee network

117 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 117 of the 254 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
116/117
Grantees still filing
71/117
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $520,000 · OtherCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PRESIDENCY & CONGRESS: $500,497 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY: $421,395 · Other+134 more: $10,672,948 · Other+134 moreNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $1,632,049 · Science & TechNATIONAL ACAD…SETI INSTITUTE: $299,699 · Science & TechSETI INSTITUT…COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $169,925 · Science & TechCOLD SPRING H…J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $160,000 · Science & TechJ CRAIG VENTE…CIENTIFICO LATINO INC: $147,750 · Science & TechCIENTIFICO LA…US CIVILIAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $110,000 · Science & Tech+4 more: $80,000 · Science & TechAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: $399,300 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN PHI…Albertine Foundation: $345,000 · Arts & CultureAlbertine Fo…American Museum of Natural History: $333,013 · Arts & CultureAmerican Mus…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $248,645 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN …FRENCH-AMERICAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 · Arts & CultureFRENCH-AMERI…THE JEWISH MUSEUM: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH M…NATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $135,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL COA…Authors Alliance Inc: $123,733 · Arts & CultureTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $118,500 · Arts & CultureTRUST FOR THE NATIONAL MALL: $100,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $140,000 · Arts & Culture+5 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $330,000 · EducationPresident a…New York University: $257,736 · EducationNew York Un…UNIVERSIDAD SIMON BOLIVAR ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $247,000 · EducationUNIVERSIDAD…Cornell University: $165,000 · EducationCornell Uni…Teachers College Columbia University: $150,000 · EducationTeachers Co…INTERSPECIES IO INC: $150,000 · EducationINTERSPECIE…THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $135,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFE…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $134,754 · EducationTHE BOARD O…FRIENDS OF CS INC: $125,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF …THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $100,617 · EducationResources USA Incorporated: $100,000 · EducationSCHOOL OF MOLECULAR AND THEORETICAL BIOLOGY INC: $97,500 · Education+10 more: $218,795 · Education+10 moreCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $250,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $200,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC: $200,000 · InternationalTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $199,525 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC: $150,000 · InternationalFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: $133,490 · InternationalTHE ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY: $125,000 · InternationalWOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY: $124,250 · InternationalKENNAN INSTITUTE: $100,000 · International+2 more: $65,000 · InternationalBIOBUS INC: $507,000 · HealthResources for the Future Inc: $150,000 · EnvironmentTHE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT: $75,000 · EnvironmentGOWANUS CANAL CONSERVANCY INC: $74,986 · Environment
Other$12,114,840Science & Tech$2,599,423Arts & Culture$2,393,191Education$2,211,402International$1,547,265Health$507,000Environment$299,986

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $1,632,049 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBIOBUS INC: $507,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PRESIDENCY & CONGRESS: $500,497 over 4y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY: $399,300 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAlbertine Foundation: $345,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $333,013 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $330,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSETI INSTITUTE: $299,699 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetInternet Archive: $260,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNew York University: $257,736 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $248,645 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSIDAD SIMON BOLIVAR ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $247,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetFRENCH-AMERICAN CULTURAL FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetJournal of Emerging Investigators Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 70% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCILS FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION ACTR ACCELS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $199,525 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY: $169,925 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University: $165,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $160,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeachers College Columbia University: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERSPECIES IO INC: $150,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetResources for the Future Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCIENTIFICO LATINO INC: $147,750 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $135,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $134,754 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: $133,490 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF CS INC: $125,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTHE ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY: $125,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE ALEX FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetWOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY: $124,250 over 1y, 26% of budgetAuthors Alliance Inc: $123,733 over 1y, 31% of budgetTHE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION: $118,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS: $115,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCONSORTIUM FOR OCEAN LEADERSHIP: $111,747 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC: $110,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetUS CIVILIAN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $100,617 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENNAN INSTITUTE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetResources USA Incorporated: $100,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetDREAMS WITH NO LIMITS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetTHE INNOVATION INSTITUTE COPORATION: $100,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Carnegie Corporation …Gordon E and Betty I …Alfred P Sloan Founda…The Hyde and Watson F…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ford FoundationThe Simons Foundation…The New York Communit…Pinkerton FoundationJewish Communal FundJohns Hopkins Univers…
Carnegie Corporation of New YorkNY24.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Richard Lounsbery Foundation Inc 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 254 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.

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