· Private foundation
The Henry Luce Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k204 grants · $419k
- $10k–50k105 grants · $2.3M
- $50k–250k310 grants · $33M
- $250k+33 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Marymount University | $458,200 |
| Georgetown University | $458,200 |
| St Johns University | $458,200 |
| Santa Clara University | $458,200 |
| Trinity Washington University | $458,200 |
| Villanova Preparatory School | $458,200 |
| Colby College | $458,200 |
| University of Notre Dame | $458,200 |
| Mount Holyoke College | $458,200 |
| Fordham University | $458,200 |
| Seton Hall University | $458,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ACAMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES5× · 2020–2024 · $8.5M · revenue +4%
- FNFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +255%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +36%
Funded once
- SFSANTA FE INDIAN SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +52%
- TPTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +153%
- VUVanderbilt University Divinity Schoolone grant, 2020 · $400k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
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…
How this is measured
724 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 724 of the 1,129 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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.
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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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Henry Luce Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Henry Luce Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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