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The Lourie Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Lourie Foundation Inc

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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.4MHuman Services$710kEnvironment$362kArts & Culture$175kPublic Benefit$100kCommunity Improvement$100kAnimals$90kYouth Development$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $230k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$250,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION INC USA$400,000
MIDWAY UNIVERSITY$396,696
BARD COLLEGE$250,000
UTOPIA FOUNDATION$100,000
THE AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM$80,000
ROCKAWAY FILM FESTIVAL$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $710k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION INC USA: $400k → 17%FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION INC USA: $150k → 17%FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION INC USA: $100k → 17%FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION INC USA: $60k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
NJ
CA
KY
VA
DC
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 4 repeat orgs$854k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +256% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
10

Total granted

$2.2M
$307k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+256%
0%

Still filing today

100%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $547k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementScience & TechOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BARD COLLEGE
    5× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +256%
  • FY
    FREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED
    4× · 2022–2025 · $710k · revenue +10%
  • AC
    AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM
    5× · 2018–2025 · $362k · revenue +637%

Funded once

  • DM
    DEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • LE
    LEGACY EQUINE ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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2
Boston Architectural College

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

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3
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
4
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
5
Mozilla Foundation

Mozilla foundation works with a broad movement of people, projects, and organizations to protect and improve the internet as a public resource. we strive to keep the internet open and accessible to all, and to promote more trustworthy…

Science & Tech
6
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
7
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts North America Inc

The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…

Arts & Culture
8
Media Matters for America

Dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the u.s. media.

Education
9
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
10
Benedict College

Benedict college is committed to providing transformative learning experiences characterized by high quality academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular programming, intentionally designed to develop superior cultural and professional…

Education
11
Moving Picture Institute

The moving picture institute is a nonprofit production company and talent incubator that creates high-impact films designed to entertain, inspire, and educate audiences with captivating stories about human freedom.

Arts & Culture
12
Brooklyn Community Foundation

Spark lasting social justice change, mobilizing people, capital, & expertise for a fair brooklyn.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American Independent Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hivewild Dance Company Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARD COLLEGE: $1,006,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGEMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE: $396,696 · EducationMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGEFREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED: $710,000 · Human ServicesFREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA…AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $362,043 · Science & TechAMAZON CONSER…THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherTHE AMERI…LEGACY EQUINE ACADEMY: $50,000 · OtherLEGACY EQ…UTOPIA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherUTOPIA FO…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherFLORENCE ACADEMY OF ART: $10,000 · OtherROCKAWAY FILM FESTIVAL: $50,000 · OtherROCKAWAY …HIVEWILD DANCE COMPANY INC: $15,000 · OtherHIVEWILD …+3 more: $2,400 · OtherUTOPIA FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementDEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Civil RightsBONOBO CONSERVATION INITIATIVE: $90,000 · Animals
Education$1,402,696Human Services$710,000Science & Tech$362,043Other$257,400Community Improvement$100,000Civil Rights$100,000Animals$90,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBARD COLLEGE: $1,006,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFREE YEZIDI FOUNDATION USA INCORPORATED: $710,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE: $396,696 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM: $362,043 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetDEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBONOBO CONSERVATION INITIATIVE: $90,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetHIVEWILD DANCE COMPANY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK LIVES MATTER FOUNDATION: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lourie Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lourie Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to The Lourie Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Lourie 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 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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