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Robert & Maureen Lucas 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.

$64k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
35%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Robert & Maureen Lucas Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalEducationHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$63k20%
FY202420$87k35%
FY202317$48k76%
FY20224$55k0%
FY202111$114k27%
FY20207$103k43%
FY20197$98k14%
FY20186$83k50%
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$223kReligion$153kCivil Rights$132kCrime & Legal$52kEducation$42kHealth$23kInternational$23kArts & Culture$17kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
IA
OH
RI
CA
MD
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Door of Hope$132,50071%
La Canada Presbyterian Church$128,0008n/a
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$112,00060%
Path$85,00070%
The Bail Project Inc$50,00020%
Mayfield Senior School of the Holy Child Jesus$25,0004n/a
National Immigration Law Center$20,00020%
Growing Pains Compassion Outreach$12,500310%
La Canada Flintridge Educational Foundation$11,50030%
Trevor Project Inc$10,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($68k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert & Maureen Lucas Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDoor of Hope: $132,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetThe Center for Reproductive Rights Inc: $112,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPath: $85,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bail Project Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Immigration Law Center: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGrowing Pains Compassion Outreach: $12,500 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetLa Canada Flintridge Educational Foundation: $11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEnvironmental Defense Fund Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Congo: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnion Rescue Mission: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPalestine Children's Relief Fund: $3,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Forman Christian College Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Weberrenew: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Funders for Indigenous Peoples: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPasadena Senior Center: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,530 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wayward Artist Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetImmigrant Defenders Law Center: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlintridge Center: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCollege Access Plan: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArts and Services for Disabled Inc Dba Able Arts Work: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Santa Monica College Foundation: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern California Public Radio: $1,085 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoachella Valley Rescue Mission: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gentle Barn Foundation: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

California Community FoundationCA22× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Pasadena Community Foundation · Ann Peppers Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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About Robert & Maureen Lucas Family Foundation

How much does Robert & Maureen Lucas Family Foundation give?
Robert & Maureen Lucas Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $63,652 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Robert & Maureen Lucas Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (30%), Religion (21%), Civil Rights (18%).
Who are Robert & Maureen Lucas Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Door of Hope ($133k), La Canada Presbyterian Church ($128k), The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc ($112k).
Does Robert & Maureen Lucas Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert & Maureen Lucas Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert & Maureen Lucas Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, Sempra Foundation, Pasadena Community Foundation.
Where is Robert & Maureen Lucas Family Foundation based?
Robert & Maureen Lucas Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 46 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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