· Private foundation
The Lu Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $359k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY FIRST NETWORK | $1,000,000 |
| DTS FOUNDATION | $700,000 |
| TLC FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| FORMOSAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF DALLAS | $59,000 |
| FWDFC | $24,000 |
| MISSION TO THE WORLD | $20,000 |
| BCM INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| CHINESE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP INT'L | $20,000 |
| LITTLE SHEPHERD FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| CHRISTIAN CREATIVE COMMUNICATION CE | $13,000 |
| Church Ministries International | $10,000 |
| GOOD NEWS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHUR | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR LABOR RELATI | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +88% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GSGREENHILL SCHOOL4× · 2018–2023 · $490k · revenue +62%
- CCCHINESE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP INTL6× · 2018–2024 · $106k · revenue +176%
- NANORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN3× · 2020–2022 · $90k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- HOHISTORY OF NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVone grant, 2022 · $300k
- CMCHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +209%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $130k
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.
Help churches in china fulfill the great commission through training emerging christian leaders. train leaders in evangelism, evangelistic preaching, pastoral care and leadership through seminaries and bible school in china. distribute…
The following are the main missions of this church: 1)to worship and serve god the holy trinity: the father, the son and the holy spirit. 2)to spread the kingdom of god and to proclaim the gospel of jesus christ through words and acts.…
Religion
Spread the Christianity
The ministty of campus movement exists to build laborers on the campus to see a movement of god that changes the world. our mission is to evangelize the lost, establish & equip young christians, and export them into the world to be…
To evangelize and to do related activities for jesus.
Meet needs inside china through bringing awareness and resources.
To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades
None
To spread gospel and provide Christianity training to the people in China through volunteer pastors and church elders from the United States.
Our mission at temple christian school is to glorify god by providing for students a christ-centered education marked by excellence and grounded in biblical truth.
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 42 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 GREENHILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP INTL ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ASCENDING CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CREATIVE COMMUNICATION CE ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY HARVEST ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SHEPHERD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CROWN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY KEEPERS INC ↗
- Who funds PASSING ON MISSION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lu Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lu Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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