· Private foundation
Ronald S Lushing 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC | $6,600 |
| LEO BAECK TEMPLE | $5,760 |
| PALM SPRINGS FRIENDS OF PHILHARMONIC | $5,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $5,000 |
| SANTA FE OPERA | $5,000 |
| CONCERN FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS | $2,500 |
| CARAVANSERAI PROJECT | $2,500 |
| LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| PBS | $2,500 |
| SWAIA | $2,000 |
| SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENTER | $2,000 |
| LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS | $1,000 |
| BIENVENIDOS OUTREACH | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +11% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SFSANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +32%
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC6× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +53%
- TSTHE SANTA FE OPERA7× · 2018–2025 · $33k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- KKCETone grant, 2018 · $15k
- PSPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUMone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- SFSLB FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -90%
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.
To integrate art into the lives of people, fostering imagination, stimulating thought, and creating personally rewarding experiences.
See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
The museum's primary exempt purpose is to promote the understanding of the role of art and artists in americn culture through collect, exhibition, research, and instruction. the focus of the organization collection is on the art of…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
The organization's mission is to preserve and share santa paula's artistic heritage, including the famous santa paula collection; and to educate and engage the community through collection, exhibition, interpretation, programming, and…
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
The santa fe conservation trust partners with our community to keep northern new mexico's living lands and people flourishing together. we protect culturally and environmentally significant landscapes, ignite people's passion for nature…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Santa Fe Opera and the most unlike its peers is Slb 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 44 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 46 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 SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEMINIST MAJORITY ↗
- Who funds CONCERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SITE SANTA FE ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS FRIENDS OF PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds BIENVENIDOS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS OF SANTA FE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CARAVANSERAI PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GAMMA MU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SLB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Women Against Gun Violence ↗
- Who funds Barak Ballet Corporation ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUMBLEBEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds I'm Not Done Yet Foundation Inc ↗
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 Greenberg Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation · New Mexico Humanities Council · Pnm Tnmp Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Ronald S Lushing Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- In a Landscape — 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.