· Private foundation
The Lu 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT ANGEL HEART | $50,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $40,000 |
| PRO PUBLICA | $27,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Foundation for National Progress | $20,000 |
| Chinese Hospital San Francisco | $11,000 |
| SafeHouse Denver Inc | $10,000 |
| STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE | $8,500 |
| Adopt a Family of Palm Beach | $8,500 |
| URBAN PEAK | $7,500 |
| Tennessee Children's Home | $5,000 |
| QUINCY INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PAPROJECT ANGEL HEART8× · 2017–2024 · $405k · revenue +138%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +98%
PRO PUBLICA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $156k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- CCROSSPURPOSEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +335%
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.
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
Chh honors every person's right to a home and health care, by bridging the housing and health care systems, to improve the lives of chicagoans experiencing homelessness.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
Meta house ends the generational cycle of addiction by healing women and strengthening families.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 18 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 PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds STATE INNOVATION EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds CHINESE HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSPURPOSE ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lu Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lu Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc: 15% of income from government
How this is measured
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