Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation DossiersAlso receives grants — funding profile →
Plinth

· Private foundation

The Henry Luce Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49M
Granted FY2024still arriving
652
Grants FY2024still arriving
46
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$77MArts & Culture$61MInternational$14MCivil Rights$13MCommunity Improvement$11MScience & Tech$11MSocial Science$9.3MReligion$8.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 652 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k204 grants · $419k
  • $10k–50k105 grants · $2.3M
  • $50k–250k310 grants · $33M
  • $250k+33 grants · $14M
$50,000
Median grant
46
States reached
$1.1B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Council of Learned Societies$1,250,000
First Nations Development Institute$750,000
First Nations Development Institute$550,000
First Nations Development Institute$500,000
University of Notre Dame$458,200
Marymount University$458,200
Trinity Washington University$458,200
St Johns University$458,200
Seton Hall University$458,200
Santa Clara University$458,200
Fordham University$458,200
Georgetown University$458,200
Villanova Preparatory School$458,200
Colby College$458,200
Mount Holyoke College$458,200
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INDIAN LAND TENURE FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%Jakara Movement: $50k → 19%First Americans Museum: $150k → 16%Local Media Foundation: $150k → 13%Ekvn-Yefolecv: $100k → 18%National Indian Child Welfare Association: $100k → 12%Center for Rural Strategies: $150k → 29%First Americans Museum: $75k → 16%Local Media Foundation: $150k → 13%Ekvn-Yefolecv: $75k → 18%The Pivot Fund: $50k → 9%Center for Rural Strategies: $150k → 29%Tiwahe Foundation: $75k → 14%Native Governance Center: $150k → 11%Native Governance Center: $150k → 11%Girls Who Code: $100k → 17%American Indian Community House: $75k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$180M · 499 repeat orgs$40M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

499 repeat relationships — 297 still active in FY2024, 202 since wound down; 218 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

499
393

Total granted

$180M
$26M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+11%

Still filing today

65%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

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

  • AC
    AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8.5M · revenue +4%
  • FN
    FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +255%
  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • SF
    SANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +52%
  • TP
    THE PHILLIPS COLLECTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +153%
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Divinity School
    one grant, 2020 · $400k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
5
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

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.

—
7
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
8
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
9
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
10
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

—
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Sarah Lawrence College

At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Queens Library Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Carnwath-Knecht-Frey Artists' Legacy 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Environmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsLgbtq+ Community SupportPublic Library OperationsCommunity Arts CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Pregnancy Support ServicesSenior Support ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportDance Arts OrganizationsCommunity FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Addiction Recovery ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Animal Rescue and ShelterHealth Access Advocacy and …Food Banks and PantriesCancer Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Jewish Community Organizati…Domestic Violence ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringSchool District FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Local History MuseumsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%52%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.1%1/774
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,818,791

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.

04the grantee network

723 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. 723 of the 1,129 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.

33
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
87
Early backer (in before they grew)
716/723
Grantees still filing
447/723
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $8,320,000 · OtherFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTESETON HALL UNIVERSITY — $2,347,750 · Other+94 more — $53,153,153 · Other+94 moreGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $2,459,750 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $2,208,750 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du La…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $2,155,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDA…Fordham University — $2,093,250 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGE — $2,076,250 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $2,074,750 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $2,074,750 · EducationThe President and Trustees of Colby College — $2,074,750 · EducationST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $2,074,750 · EducationCreighton University — $2,074,750 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $1,850,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,697,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $1,550,750 · Education+25 more — $13,670,049 · Education+25 moreAMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES — $8,459,643 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COUNCIL OF …SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $1,477,500 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUT…THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $975,000 · Arts & Culture+34 more — $15,678,000 · Arts & Culture+34 moreTHE ASIA FOUNDATION — $1,986,500 · InternationalINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC — $1,227,000 · InternationalTHE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER — $850,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP — $800,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $744,000 · InternationalCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — $690,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $620,900 · InternationalTHE ASIA SOCIETY — $620,000 · InternationalASIAN CULTURAL COUNCIL INC — $574,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES HEARTLAND CHINA ASSOCIATION — $500,000 · InternationalNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY INC — $450,000 · InternationalTHE GERMAN MARSHALL FUND OF THE UNITED STATES — $419,000 · International+4 more — $1,311,012 · InternationalSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — $1,550,000 · Social ScienceTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $1,175,000 · Social ScienceInstitute for Diversity and Civic Life — $615,000 · Social ScienceAmerican Center for Mongolian Studies — $487,000 · Social ScienceData For Black Lives Inc — $300,000 · Social ScienceTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION — $300,000 · Social SciencePUBLIC RELIGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $1,550,000 · ReligionINTERFAITH AMERICA — $1,000,000 · ReligionCENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND PUBLIC LIFE — $300,000 · ReligionUNDIVIDED INC — $300,000 · ReligionNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC — $1,354,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC — $350,000 · Civil Rights
Other$63,820,903Education$40,134,549Arts & Culture$27,590,143International$10,792,412Social Science$4,427,000Religion$3,150,000Civil Rights$1,704,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES — $8,459,643 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $8,320,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $2,459,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY — $2,347,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $2,208,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $2,155,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFordham University — $2,093,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — $2,076,250 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $2,074,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $2,074,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College — $2,074,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $2,074,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCreighton University — $2,074,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY — $2,074,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ASIA FOUNDATION — $1,986,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND — $1,850,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $1,697,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,616,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $1,550,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC RELIGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $1,550,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL — $1,550,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $1,477,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC — $1,354,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC — $1,227,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $1,175,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $1,061,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $1,050,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION — $1,040,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $1,013,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH AMERICA — $1,000,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM — $1,000,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART — $975,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES — $860,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE HENRY L STIMSON CENTER — $850,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP — $800,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $775,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetNATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER — $765,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetCENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES — $744,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM — $725,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $725,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $700,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE — $690,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $672,613 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University — $650,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI MUSEUM OF ART INC — $650,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetOAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA — $650,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $620,900 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY — $620,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budget
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 AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES ↗
  • Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE ASIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC RELIGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗

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.

Terra Foundation for …The Andrew W Mellon F…The Ford FoundationThe Andy Warhol Found…Democracy Fund IncCarnegie Corporation …Helen Frankenthaler F…Rockefeller Brothers …John D and Catherine …E Rhodes and Leona B …The William & Flora H…The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc
Terra Foundation for American ArtIL80.9× affinity43 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Terra Foundation for American Art · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Democracy Fund Inc · Carnegie Corporation of New York · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · E Rhodes and Leona B Carpenter Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund 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 The Henry Luce 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • The Montclair Art Museum — 11% of income from government
  • High Desert Museum — 11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • The Morgan State University Foundation Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art — 4% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum — 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
  • Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
  • First Americans Museum Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
  • Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
  • Emmanuel College — 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
40report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Henry Luce Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Henry Luce 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 1129 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home