The Henry Luce Foundation Inc
New York, NY · EIN 13-6001282. Reported 2,119 grants totalling $186.8M to 1,065 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$50,000median grant
$186.8Mgranted, 2021-2024
1,065organizations funded
50%of grantees funded again the next year
$1.1Bassets, latest filing
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. The Henry Luce Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $50,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $4,000 and $125,000; the smallest was $75 and the largest $1,250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
All 1,065 recipients appear in its filings; the 250 largest are listed here. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which this organization received money -- the clearest signal of who this foundation actually has a relationship with.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Nations Development Institute | Longmont, CO | $7,170,000 | 19 | 4 | 2024 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | New York, NY | $6,591,143 | 16 | 4 | 2024 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $2,128,750 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | Madison, WI | $1,925,000 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Notre Dame | Notre Dame, IN | $1,877,750 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Seton Hall University | South Orange, NJ | $1,851,750 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fordham University | Bronx, NY | $1,762,250 | 10 | 4 | 2024 |
| Trinity Washington University | Washington, DC | $1,745,250 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Colby College | Waterville, ME | $1,743,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Creighton University | Omaha, NE | $1,743,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Marymount University | Arlington, VA | $1,743,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mount Holyoke College | South Hadley, MA | $1,743,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Santa Clara University | Santa Clara, CA | $1,743,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Johns University | Queens, NY | $1,743,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Villanova Preparatory School | Ojai, CA | $1,743,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $1,670,000 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $1,450,750 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| Columbia University | New York, NY | $1,437,000 | 20 | 4 | 2024 |
| Native American Rights Fund | Boulder, CO | $1,354,000 | 9 | 4 | 2024 |
| Smithsonian American Art Museum | Washington, DC | $1,327,500 | 10 | 4 | 2024 |
| Morgan State University | Baltimore, MD | $1,325,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Public Religion Research Institute (prri) | Washington, DC | $1,300,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Boston University | Boston, MA | $1,285,550 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Social Science Research Council | Brooklyn, NY | $1,250,000 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Asia Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $1,186,500 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center for Southeast Asian Studies University of California-Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $1,058,500 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Aspen Institute | Washington, DC | $1,050,000 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution | Washington, DC | $975,000 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of California Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA | $970,000 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Saint Louis University | St Louis, MO | $961,500 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| East-West Center | Honolulu, HI | $937,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $924,600 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Indian College Fund | Denver, CO | $900,000 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Baltimore Museum of Art | Baltimore, MD | $900,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Hawai'i Foundation | Honolulu, HI | $873,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Association of American Colleges and Universities | Washington, DC | $860,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Studio Museum in Harlem | New York, NY | $800,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Burke Museum | Seattle, WA | $775,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| James Madison College Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | $755,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of California Merced | Merced, CA | $750,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Stimson Center | Washington, DC | $740,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Luce Scholars | New York, NY | $731,773 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $713,000 | 10 | 4 | 2024 |
| Indiana University Center for Religion and the Human | Bloomington, IN | $700,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | New York, NY | $700,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Academy of Sciences | Washington, DC | $672,613 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Center for Strategic and International Studies | Washington, DC | $668,000 | 12 | 4 | 2024 |
| Mississippi Museum of Art | Jackson, MS | $650,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | Washington, DC | $630,000 | 7 | 4 | 2024 |
| Asia Society | New York, NY | $620,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| National Humanities Center | Durham, NC | $611,250 | 6 | 3 | 2023 |
| Interfaith America | Chicago, IL | $600,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| International Crisis Group | Washington, DC | $600,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ohio University Libraries | Athens, OH | $600,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $581,750 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art | Iowa City, IA | $560,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Aapi Civic Engagement Fund | Los Angeles, CA | $550,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Solutions Journalism Network | New York, NY | $550,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Institute of International Education | New York, NY | $527,000 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | $525,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Oakland Museum of California | Oakland, CA | $525,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of California Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $520,000 | 6 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $515,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Boston | Boston, MA | $513,333 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center | Phnom Penh | $500,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Black Brown and Queer Studies | Cambridge, MA | $500,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New York Southeast Asia Network Columbia University | New York, NY | $500,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pen America | New York, NY | $500,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United States Heartland China Association | Troy, MO | $500,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Boston, MA | $493,000 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| Narrative Initiative | Washington, DC | $490,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Center for Mongolian Studies | Philadelphia, PA | $487,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| American Indian Science Engineering Society (aises) | Albuquerque, NM | $475,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Asian Cultural Council | New York, NY | $475,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Nevada Museum of Art | Reno, NV | $475,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of California Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive | Berkeley, CA | $475,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | $470,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Center for Southeast Asia Studies University of California Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $460,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Prx | Cambridge, MA | $460,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United Lutheran Seminary | Gettysburg, PA | $455,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $452,000 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| Center for Global Asia New York University | New York, NY | $450,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Centre for University Core Singapore University of Social Sciences | Singapore | $450,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Committee on American Foreign Policy | New York, NY | $450,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Peabody Essex Museum | Salem, MA | $450,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Colorado Boulder | Boulder, CO | $450,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $448,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Tandon School of Engineering New York University | Brooklyn, NY | $447,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (suny) | Albany, NY | $440,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Matching Grants | New York, NY | $431,095 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Institution | Washington, DC | $425,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rubin Museum of Art | New York, NY | $425,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The German Marshall Fund of the United States | Washington, DC | $419,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $415,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Saint Mary's College | Notre Dame, IN | $410,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Texas at El Paso | El Paso, TX | $410,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | Washington, DC | $400,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Anchorage Museum | Anchorage, AK | $400,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Auburn Theological Seminary | New York, NY | $400,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Autry Museum of the American West | Los Angeles, CA | $400,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Faith Matters Network | Nashville, TN | $400,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Interfaith Youth Core | Chicago, IL | $400,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $400,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sojourners | Washington, DC | $400,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Montclair Art Museum | Montclair, NJ | $395,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Magnum Foundation | New York, NY | $387,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Asianetwork | Delaware, OH | $378,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center for Asian American Media | San Francisco, CA | $375,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Halcyon | Washington, DC | $375,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Indij Public Media | Phoenix, AZ | $375,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Indigenous Movement for Peace Advancement & Conflict Transformation (impact | Nanyuki | $375,000 | 4 | 2 | 2022 |
| The New School | New York, NY | $375,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Council on Foreign Relations | New York, NY | $373,400 | 5 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Economic Democracy | Jamaica Plain, MA | $366,666 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Institute for Diversity and Civic Life | Austin, TX | $365,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Shaker Museummount Lebanon | Chatham, NY | $360,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Scholars at Risk | New York, NY | $355,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of California Davis | Davis, CA | $355,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| American Folk Art Museum | Long Island City, NY | $350,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| American Friends of Prospect Burma | Accord, NY | $350,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Denver Art Museum | Denver, CO | $350,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Harwood Museum of Art | Taos, NM | $350,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Institute for Citizens & Scholars | Princeton, NJ | $350,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New Public | Washington, DC | $350,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Genron Npo | Tokyo | $350,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Native Nations Institute | Tucson, AZ | $330,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of California at Riverside | Riverside, CA | $330,000 | 6 | 4 | 2024 |
| The College of New Jersey | Ewing, NJ | $328,036 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University | Dekalb, IL | $325,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University | Tallahassee, FL | $325,000 | 3 | 1 | 2024 |
| Joslyn Art Museum | Omaha, NE | $325,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Minnesota Museum of American Art | St Paul, MN | $325,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation | Washington, DC | $325,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Grinnell College | Grinnell, IA | $315,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Albright-Knox Art Gallery | Buffalo, NY | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Historical Association | Washington, DC | $300,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Journalism Project | Washington, DC | $300,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition | Sacramento, CA | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Blackspace Urbanist Collective | Brooklyn, NY | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Center for Rural Strategies | Whitesburg, KY | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Center for the Study of Social Difference Columbia University | New York, NY | $300,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| City Bureau | Chicago, IL | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Data for Black Lives | New York, NY | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Espacios Abiertos | San Juan | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Faith in Action Network | Washington, DC | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Guilded | Philadelphia, PA | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Highlander Research and Education Center | New Market, TN | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hopivewat Learning Center | Kykotsmovi, AZ | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Iliff School of Theology | Denver, CO | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Inner-City Muslim Action Network (iman) | Chicago, IL | $300,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Local Media Foundation | Lake City, MI | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mountain Time Arts | Bozeman, MT | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Namati | Washington, DC | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Native Governance Center | Minneapolis, MN | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rural Digital Resiliency Project | Morgantown, WV | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Siena College | Loudonville, NY | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The Center for Christianity and Public Life | Baltimore, MD | $300,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Policy Academies | Washington DC, DC | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The St Charles Center for Faith Action | New Orleans, LA | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The University of Tennessee Mcclung Museum of Natural History & Culture | Knoxville, TN | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts | Austin, TX | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Undivided Inc | Cincinnati, OH | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| United for Respect Education Fund | Brooklyn, NY | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University | Blacksburg, VA | $300,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Washington University in St Louis | St Louis, MO | $300,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Morgan State University Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $299,688 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Tech Research Corporation | Atlanta, GA | $299,321 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Mandarin Society | Alexandria, VA | $288,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Berkley Center for Religion Peace and World Affairs Georgetown Universit | Washington, DC | $288,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art | New York, NY | $285,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Directors Grants | New York, NY | $280,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Worcester, MA | $276,128 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| African Institute for Mathematical Sciences | Toronto, Ontario | $275,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Minneapolis Institute of Art | Minneapolis, MN | $275,000 | 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Texas Tribune | Austin, TX | $275,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| UCLA Asian American Studies Center | Los Angeles, CA | $275,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art | North Adams, MA | $274,283 | 8 | 2 | 2024 |
| Modern Tibetan Studies Program Columbia University | New York, NY | $270,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| American Geographical Society | New York, NY | $267,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| School for Advanced Research on the Human Experience | Santa Fe, NM | $260,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Society of Women Engineers | Chicago, IL | $255,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Arizona Foundation | Tucson, AZ | $255,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Dayton | Dayton, OH | $251,500 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $251,100 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Amalgamated Foundation | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Institute for Indonesian Studies (aifis) | Ithaca, NY | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Asociacin Cultural CASA Del Nio | Villa Rica | $250,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Baylor University | Waco, TX | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Bowie State University Foundation | Bowie, MD | $250,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Capital B News Inc | New York, NY | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life | Colorado Springs, CO | $250,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Emmanuel College | Boston, MA | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Environmental Law Institute | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Episcopal Divinity School at Union | New York, NY | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Florida State University Foundation | Tallahassee, FL | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Georgia O'keeffe Museum | Santa Fe, NM | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc | Atlanta, GA | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hammer Museum | Los Angeles, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Indigenous Peoples Rights International | Yarmouth, ME | $250,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marian University | Indianapolis, IN | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Meanings of Democracy Lab | Storrsmansfield, CT | $250,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| Memphis Brooks Museum of Art | Memphis, TN | $250,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Midwest Indigenous Immersion Network (miin) | Hayward, WI | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Native Americans in Philanthropy | Washington, DC | $250,000 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| New Museum | New York, NY | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New Venture Fund | New York, NY | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Our Body Politic | New York, NY | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Outlier Media | Detroit, MI | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Portland Art Museum | Portland, OR | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Portland State University Foundation | Portland, OR | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Religion Race & Democracy Lab University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art | Providence, RI | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rutgers University Foundation | New Brunswick, NJ | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Soulforce Inc | Abilene, TX | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| St Louis Inter-Faith Committee on Latin America (ifcla) | St Louis, MO | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Foundation for Nc A&t State University | Greensboro, NC | $250,000 | 2 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Fralin Museum of Art University of Virginia | Charlottesville, VA | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The High Desert Museum | Bend, OR | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| The University Corporation San Francisco State | San Francisco, CA | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc | Knoxville, TN | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Charlotte, NC | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of St Thomas | St Paul, MN | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wake Forest University School of Divinity | Winstonsalem, NC | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Western Michigan University Foundation | Kalamazoo, MI | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Xavier University | Cincinnati, OH | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wellesley College | Wellesley, MA | $244,000 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lafayette College | Easton, PA | $243,276 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Madison Square Park Conservancy | New York, NY | $241,500 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| Centre for University Core Singapore University of Social Sciences | Singapore, Singapore | $240,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Claremont Mckenna College | Claremont, CA | $240,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Inter-American Dialogue | Washington, DC | $240,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center | Washington, DC | $240,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Warehouse Worker Resource Center | Ontario, CA | $240,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Shelburne Museum | Shelburne, VT | $235,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Abbe Museum | Bar Harbor, ME | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn, NY | $225,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| First Americans Museum | Oklahoma City, OK | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Howard University | Washington, DC | $225,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Museum of Contemporary Native Arts | Santa Fe, NM | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Museum of the Cherokee People | Cherokee, NC | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum | Oklahoma City, OK | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Bedford Whaling Museum | New Bedford, MA | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rutgers University-Newark | Newark, NJ | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art Indiana University | Bloomington, IN | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| St Catherine University | St Paul, MN | $225,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Groundtruth Project | Boston, MA | $225,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
435 of 1,065 (41%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 50%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- American Council of Learned Societies
Support for academic fellowships - First Nations Development Institute
Cohort 3-Supporting Public/Community Intellectuals in Native American Communities - The Asia Foundation
Luce Scholars Program (FY23) - University of California Berkeley
Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative - Colby College
Support for the Clare Boothe Luce STEM program - University of Wisconsin Foundation
Support for academic research
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 1,251 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 321 | $44.2M | $100,000 |
| 2022 | 561 | $47.4M | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 585 | $45.8M | $45,009 |
| 2024 | 652 | $49.3M | $50,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Already committed for future years
Form 990-PF has a separate schedule for grants approved but not yet paid. The Henry Luce Foundation Inc has 815 of them, worth $113.9M. This is the one part of the filing that looks forward rather than back -- and it also tells you how much of the next year's budget is already spoken for.
| Organization | Location | Approved |
|---|---|---|
| First Nations Development Institute | Longmont, CO | $1,900,000 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | Madison, WI | $1,190,000 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | Madison, WI | $1,045,000 |
| National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution | Washington, DC | $1,000,000 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | New York, NY | $1,000,000 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | New York, NY | $1,000,000 |
| American Council of Learned Societies | New York, NY | $1,000,000 |
| First Nations Development Institute | Longmont, CO | $1,000,000 |
| First Nations Development Institute | Longmont, CO | $1,000,000 |
| First Nations Development Institute | Longmont, CO | $850,000 |
| Centre for University Core Singapore University of Social Sciences | Singapore | $800,000 |
| East-West Center | Honolulu, HI | $783,000 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $770,000 |
| First Nations Development Institute | Longmont, CO | $750,000 |
| First Nations Development Institute | Longmont, CO | $750,000 |
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 22% of this one's giving went to organizations in New York. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
Find more foundations like The Henry Luce Foundation Inc
We email you newly filed foundations whose giving matches your state and cause, as the IRS publishes them. Free.
No spam, unsubscribe in one click. We never sell or share your address.
Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund291 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc257 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program207 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc202 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust192 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc165 shared recipients
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $50,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New York.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Related guides
Foundations funding education in New YorkEvery funder in this group, rankedFoundations funding arts & culture in New YorkEvery funder in this group, rankedFoundations funding international affairs in New YorkEvery funder in this group, rankedFoundations funding human services in New YorkEvery funder in this group, ranked
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Henry Luce Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 41 Madison Avenue 27 Floor, New York, NY, 10010. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
EIN 13-6001282 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.
Is something here wrong about your foundation? Email hello@funderscope.com and we will correct it.