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The Valerie Ann Luff Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$85k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2026
9
Organizations funded FY2025
44%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$31,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 13
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
2
Total assets, FY2026
$388k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 44% of the organizations The Valerie Ann Luff Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsReligionPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving10$85k30%
FY20259$96k44%
FY202411$90k36%
FY20237$74k43%
FY20227$81k43%
FY20217$38k43%
FY20208$45k25%
FY201913$94k38%
95% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$287kHealth$245kHousing & Shelter$59kHuman Services$12kRecreation & Sports$6kEducation$4kCrime & Legal$3kInternational$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
MD
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Catherine Center for Special Needs Inc$256,750101%
Malta House Inc$64,775101%
Our Ladys Pilgrimage Inc$54,45095%
Veritas Catholic Network Inc$22,00032%
The Blessed Sacrament Church Corporation$6,2505n/a
Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc$6,00020%
Foundations in Education Inc$4,00020%
The Miracle League North Bay$3,00012%
One World Surgery$2,50010%
Society of St Vincent de Paul Rockford Council$2,5001n/a
Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of The Valerie Ann Luff Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Catherine Center for Special Needs Inc$256,750101%
Malta House Inc$64,775101%
Our Ladys Pilgrimage Inc$54,45095%
Veritas Catholic Network Inc$22,00032%
The Blessed Sacrament Church Corporation$6,2505n/a
Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc$6,00020%
Foundations in Education Inc$4,00020%
The Miracle League North Bay$3,00012%
One World Surgery$2,50010%
Society of St Vincent de Paul Rockford Council$2,5001n/a
St Aloysius Church Corp$2,0001n/a
Malta Camp USA Inc$1,5001n/a
Shepherds Inc$1,0001n/a
Special Olympics Connecticut Inc$1,00010%
St John Fisher Seminary Inc - Adoration Chapel$1,0001n/a
The Grid Iron Club$9501n/a
Feeding Dreams Inc$50010%
The Bridge Family Center Inc$45030%
Epilepsy Foundation of America$20010%
Cardinal Shehan Center Inc$20010%
The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc$17010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$10010%
Blood Cancer United Inc$7510%

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($303k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Valerie Ann Luff Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Catherine Center for Special Needs Inc: $256,750 over 10y, 1.0% of budgetMalta House Inc: $64,775 over 10y, 0.8% of budgetOur Ladys Pilgrimage Inc: $54,450 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetVeritas Catholic Network Inc: $22,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCatholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundations in Education Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Miracle League North Bay: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetOne World Surgery: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Connecticut Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding Dreams Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bridge Family Center Inc: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEpilepsy Foundation of America: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCardinal Shehan Center Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: $170 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

The John and Ethel Kashulon FoundationDE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation · The Queally Foundation Inc · Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About The Valerie Ann Luff Foundation

How much does The Valerie Ann Luff Foundation give?
The Valerie Ann Luff Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $85,150 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does The Valerie Ann Luff Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Religion (44%), Health (38%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
Who are The Valerie Ann Luff Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: St Catherine Center for Special Needs Inc ($257k), Malta House Inc ($65k), Our Ladys Pilgrimage Inc ($54k).
Does The Valerie Ann Luff Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Valerie Ann Luff Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Valerie Ann Luff Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation, The Queally Foundation Inc, Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes.
Where is The Valerie Ann Luff Foundation based?
The Valerie Ann Luff Foundation is based in CT.

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 49 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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