· Private foundation
The Lou 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHP 11-99 Foundation | $25,000 |
| CHINESE JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHINESE JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Stanford University | $10,000 |
| The UC Davis Foundation | $10,000 |
| Omniware Networks | $2,000 |
| Omniware Networks | $2,000 |
| Impulse Youth Arts Organization | $1,001 |
| LAPOA | $1,000 |
| United Service Organizations | $1,000 |
| National Police Association | $500 |
| The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the | $200 |
| The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the | $200 |
| The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the | $200 |
| National Police Association | $185 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 0% since the first grant, against -16% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CJCHINESE JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $50k
- C1CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue 0%
- MFMVLA FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $25k
Funded once
- SUSTANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESone grant, 2021 · $15k
- AAALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF RUC SF BAY AREAone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TATsinghua Association of Alumni THAA-NCone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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 ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Cna is a non-profit research organization that operates the center for naval analyses, a federally funded research center that has supported the navy and marine corps for nearly seventy years, and the institute for public research that…
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
Advancing the art and science of navigation, positioning, and timing. the institute of navigation (ion) is a membership organization incorporated in january 1967 for the purpose of advancing the art and science of navigation through…
The National Academy of Public Administration is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non partisan Organization established in 1967 and chartered by Congress in 1984. See Schedule O
Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…
The association was formed to maintain a high standard of professional ethics among its members and to aid in the institution of improvements in legal education and to provide information to the public in laws relating to patents,…
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 48 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
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.
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE DUI HUA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE 1990 INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Intersection for the Arts ↗
- Who funds IMPULSE YOUTH ARTS ORGANIZATIO ↗
- Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JLS Middle School PTA ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lou Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lou Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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