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The Luce-Fahey Family Foundation at a glance

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The Luce-Fahey Family 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.

$860k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.2MRecreation & Sports$300kScience & Tech$226kHealth$125kPhilanthropy$50kFood & Nutrition$38k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+2 grants · $800k
$300,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$95k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DUKE UNIVERSITY$500,000
LA STRONG SPORTS FOUNDATION$300,000
SIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE$50,000
CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LA STRONG SPORTS FOUNDATION: $300k → 10%The UCLA Foundation: $450k → 14%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $51k → 17%Teach Forward Foundation: $75k → 10%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $500k → 11%SIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE: $76k → 10%UCLA: $75k → 14%CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $250k → 11%SIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE: $50k → 10%UCLA: $75k → 14%Cancer Research Institute: $24k → 17%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $250k → 11%SIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE: $50k → 10%The UCLA Foundation: $75k → 14%Food Education Fund: $13k → 17%Duke University: $50k → 11%Mathematical Sciences Research Institute: $50k → 10%The UCLA Foundation: $75k → 14%ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%Crossroads School For Arts and Sciences: $100k → 14%Crossroads School For Arts and Sciences: $100k → 14%Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences: $100k → 14%CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $25k → 14%CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $10k → 14%CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $10k → 14%KEVIN LOVE FUND: $25k → 14%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.
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 6 repeat orgs$400k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

$1.9M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
0%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthScience & 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

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +3%
  • CS
    CROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES
    6× · 2020–2025 · $345k · revenue +23%
  • CR
    CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • TF
    TEACH FORWARD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · 50% of their budget
  • KL
    KEVIN LOVE FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
6
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
8
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
9
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
10
Long Island University

To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.

—
11
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
12
St Luke's Foundation Inc

An exceptional education that inspires a deep love of learning, a strong moral compass, the commitment to serve, and the confidence to lead.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ucla Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Teach Forward Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,050,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYUCLA FOUNDATION: $600,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $345,000 · EducationCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES+1 more: $37,500 · EducationLA STRONG SPORTS FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherLA STRONG SPORTS FOU…UCLA: $150,000 · OtherUCLATEACH FORWARD FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherTEACH FORWARD FOUNDA…SIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE: $226,000 · Science & TechCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 · HealthKEVIN LOVE FUND: $25,000 · HealthENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Philanthropy
Education$2,032,500Other$525,000Science & Tech$226,000Health$125,000Philanthropy$50,000

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 budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,050,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS SCHOOL FOR ARTS AND SCIENCES: $345,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE: $226,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTEACH FORWARD FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC: $37,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetKEVIN LOVE FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 11 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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