· Private foundation
The Lumos 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.
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 $10k6 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WINSHIP CANCER INSTITUTE EMORY UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| USO | $10,000 |
| GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SYNERGIES WORK INC | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $5,000 |
| KONKANI CHARITABLE FUND INC | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $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 (FY19–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +98% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SWSynergies Work Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue ×27 · 34% of their budget
- TGTHE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +108%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- CHCHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTAone grant, 2017 · $50k
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +2%- IIACAone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.
Americares mission is to help people and communities around the world access (see schedule o).
Simulation based eye surgery training to create access to quality cataract surgery worldwide.
International eye foundation works to prevent blindness and restore sight by building capacity for quality, comprehensive and sustainable eye care services worldwide.
Guided by her remarkable legacy of its co-founder, helen keller, helen keller intl partners with communities that are striving to overcome longstanding cycles of poverty. by delivering the essential building blocks of good health, sound…
Sign partners with overseas surgeons to build sustainable orthopaedic capacity by donating education, instruments, and implants. by working with teaching hospitals and hosting educational conferences worldwide, sign equips surgeons to heal…
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To work towards eradicating curable blindness all over india. our key program is vision 20/20 - with the goal of performing 500,000 free surgeries per year throughout india. we have been primarily partnering with sankara eye foundation in…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 23 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 Synergies Work Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GRADY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds KONKANI CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Sankara Nethralaya OM Trust Inc ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lumos Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lumos Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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