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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.

$53k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
24
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,600
Organizations funded a year
14 to 24
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$616k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Ronald S Lushing Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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 arriving19$53k0%
FY202424$79k33%
FY202318$54k0%
FY202218$49k17%
FY202115$34k20%
FY202021$46k29%
FY201818$80k50%
FY201714$29kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$225kInternational$61kHealth$42kReligion$39kCivil Rights$18kEducation$12kHuman Services$7kHousing & Shelter$6kOther$0

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
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Ltd$89,81081%
Human Rights Watch Inc$57,10060%
Leo Baeck Temple$38,6008n/a
The Santa Fe Opera$32,86570%
Museum of New Mexico Foundation$16,06550%
Feminist Majority$15,37541%
Concern Foundation$14,50070%
Santa Fe Children's Museum Inc$11,25021%
Vista del Mar Child and Family Services$7,00030%
Site Santa Fe$6,80080%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($89k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ronald S Lushing Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSanta Fe Chamber Music Festival Ltd: $89,810 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $57,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Santa Fe Opera: $32,865 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of New Mexico Foundation: $16,065 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFeminist Majority: $15,375 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetConcern Foundation: $14,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Fe Children's Museum Inc: $11,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVista del Mar Child and Family Services: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSite Santa Fe: $6,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPalm Springs Friends of Philharmonic: $6,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBienvenidos Outreach Inc: $5,750 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLos Angeles Conservancy: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe Inc: $4,873 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern California Counseling Center: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgia O'Keeffe Museum: $3,975 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCaravanserai Project: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGamma Mu Foundation Inc: $2,900 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPalm Springs Art Museum: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSlb Foundation: $2,300 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWomen Against Gun Violence: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBarak Ballet Corporation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetI'm Not Done Yet Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBumblebee Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIn a Landscape: $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 24.

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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.

The Greenberg FoundationCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ronald S Lushing Family Foundation

How much does Ronald S Lushing Family Foundation give?
Ronald S Lushing Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $53,060 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Ronald S Lushing Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), International (14%), Health (10%).
Who are Ronald S Lushing Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Ltd ($90k), Human Rights Watch Inc ($57k), Leo Baeck Temple ($39k).
Does Ronald S Lushing Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ronald S Lushing 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 Ronald S Lushing Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greenberg Foundation, Santa Fe Community Foundation, Gale Family Foundation.
Where is Ronald S Lushing Family Foundation based?
Ronald S Lushing 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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