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Luminate Foundation Inc: 91 grants to organizations, $22.5 million (tax year ended December 2024)
Luminate Foundation Inc, a private foundation in Washington, DC, paid 91 grants to organizations totaling $22,499,637 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on November 14, 2025. The largest was $1,000,000 to Amalgamated Charitable Foundation in Washington, DC for to meaningfully resource black feminist movements globally..
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- EIN
- 823941326
- Based in
- Washington, DC
- Assets
- $11,032,337
- Grants paid
- $22,499,637
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed November 14, 2025, IRS object ID 202503189349101745. It reported $22,499,637 in grants paid; 91 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | To meaningfully resource black feminist movements globally. | $1,000,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| East West Management Institute | New York, NY | Support Freedom of Expression cluster, via core institutional, capacity building | Education | $860,673 | apps.irs.gov |
| Data and Society Research Institute | New York, NY | Support social implications of data-centric technologies & automation. | Public and societal benefit | $650,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Red En Defensa de Los Derechos Digitales (R3D) | Mexico City, MX | Protects digital rights and civic space against surveillance and AI. | $650,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Washington Office On Latin America (wola) | Washington, DC | Promoting racial action plans and protecting human rights in Americas. | $600,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Tifa Foundation | South Jakarta, ID | Protects digital rights and civic space against surveillance and AI. | $550,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Calmatters | Sacramento, CA | Supports global AI reporting consortium, sharing expertise with newsrooms worldwide. | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Inter-American Foundation | Washington, DC | To strengthen the countrys civic space | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Natural Resource Governance Institute (nrgi) | New York, NY | General Operating Grant. | $500,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| International Women's Media Foundation | Washington, DC | Supports safety of women and non-binary journalists, anti-online violence. | $480,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Agencia Publica | Sao Paulo, BR | Supports Agencia Publicas development, global influence, and Big Tech investigation | $450,550 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Access Now | Brooklyn, NY | Support digital rights of world users at risk. | $450,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Privacy International (pi) | London, UK | Support Grantee's work on right to privacy for everyone, everywhere | $450,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Lighthouse Reports | Utrecht, NL | Advances accountability journalism, GenAI, and surveillance technology newsroom. | $432,750 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Human Dignity Trust | London, UK | Supports legal reform and protection for LGBT people worldwide. | $405,300 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Global Investigative Journalism Network - Gijn | Washington, DC | Supports advanced investigations and safe tech infrastructure in newsrooms. | $400,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Clip - Centro Latinoamericano de Investigacion Periodistica | Nicoya, CS | To support achieving institutional objective of fostering public debate | $395,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Association for Progressive Communications (apc) | San Francisco, CA | Building cohort organisations in Asia working on Big Tech accountability | $355,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Freedom Voices Network | Paris, FR | To secure data of threatened journalists and publish their reporting. | $330,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Engage Media | Melbourne, AS | Supports Indonesia's AI governance, youth activism, and tech surveillance research | $327,184 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Media Monitoring Africa | Johannesburg, SF | Supports healthy information ecosystems and informed citizenry in South Africa. | $310,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Atlantic Council | Washington, DC | To benefit democracy and human rights in Colombia. | $300,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Katiba Institute | Nairobi, KE | To entrench a culture and practice of constitutionalism in Kenya | $300,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| School of Politics Policy and Governance | Abuja, NI | Builds new, skilled political class to solve Africas development. | $300,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Digital Freedom Fund (DFF) | Amsterdam, NL | Support digital rights in Europe through strategic litigation | $275,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Baraza Media Lab | Nairobi, KE | Improve resilience, coordination and support media, journalism and creative spaces. | $270,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Instituto de Liderazgo Simone de Beauvoir | Mexico City, MX | To support to Indigenous, Afro-Mexican, youth, and LBT+ women leaders | $267,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Techher | Abuja, NI | Supports combating online gender violence and womens digital rights. | $260,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Budgit | Lagos, NI | Supports BudgITs advocacy, civil society, and civic tech participation | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (formerly Premium Times Ce | Abuja, NI | To improve the media and information ecosystem in Nigeria. | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) | Lahore, PK | Investigates and campaigns against online and real-world harms in Pakistan. | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Global Witness | London, UK | Advocacy work in the areas of socioenvironmental and climate justice | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Instituto Incube | Sao Paulo, BR | To support Grantee's project, More in Common Brazil | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Namati | Washington, DC | Promoting paralegal outreach and awareness raising among communities facing discrimination | Crime and legal-related | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Media Defence | London, UK | Supports free speech, journalists, litigation, and internal operations. | $240,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Accountability Counsel | San Francisco, CA | Supporting communities via communities, Policy Advocacy and Research programme. | Environment | $230,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Phandeeyar | Walnut, CA | Core funding/reserve to grow their resilience to pursue organisational objectives. | $230,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Hadis Foundation | Abuja, NI | Improves young peoples responsible tech use and civic participation. | $210,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Caribe Afirmativo | Barranquilla, CO | support fostering LGBTIQ+ and public policy in Colombia | $204,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| East West Management Institute | New York, NY | To implement Indigenous Knowledge and Data Sovereignty (IKDS) framework | Education | $202,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Afrobarometer | Accra, GH | Training youth organisations in data collection, management and story telling. | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Canvas | Belgrade, RI | General operating support renewal grant | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Futurelect | Johannesburg, SF | Design/deliver non-partisan, intensive and interdisciplinary young leadership development and training. | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Hashtag Generation | Colombo, CE | To build know-how and capacity to hold tech platforms accountable | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Manos Visibles | Bogota, CO | Promotes rights for marginalised groups in Colombia through media. | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Media Development Investment Fund (mdif) | New York, NY | to help independent media thrive and safeguard editorial independence. | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Open Institute International | Nairobi, KE | Improves public services for marginalised Kenyan communities using technology. | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Paradigm Initiative | Lagos, NI | Core grant to Paradigm Initiative in support of their work. | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Reporters Without Borders | Paris, FR | Promotes global democratic principles in information and communication space. | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (rpa) | New York, NY | Resourcing, documenting and potentially scaling methods to tackle harmful narratives | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (serap) | Lagos, NI | support strategic litigation work and civic participation space in Nigeria. | $200,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Front Line Defenders | Blackrock, EI | Supports and trains human rights defenders against digital and surveillance threats. | $196,700 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Friends of Majal | Laguna Beach, CA | Supports project mapping surveillance industrys hidden connections and employment. | $180,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The Engine Room | New York, NY | Support Safe, responsible and strategic technology use while mitigating vulnerabilities | Human services | $179,600 | apps.irs.gov |
| Victory Institute | Washington, DC | To strengthening network and skills of LGBTQI+ leaders across Latam | $176,766 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Association for Progressive Communications (apc) | San Francisco, CA | Generate diligence rules, transparency standards around social media monetisation programs. | $170,020 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Safenet | Denpasar, ID | Support digital rights monitoring, capacity building and civic space protection | $160,816 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Africa's Voices Foundation (avf) | Nairobi, KE | Amplify citizens' voices in decision-making, policy responses, and development planning. | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Amandlamobi | Johannesburg, SF | To support organisation's growth, assists with fundraising and communications capacity. | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Article 19 Eastern Africa | Nairobi, KE | To support core operations and program work. | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Association for Progressive Communications (apc) | San Francisco, CA | Supporting Myanmar Internet Project, combat disinformation and mitigate digital risks. | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Citizens' Gavel | Yaba, NI | Core operating grant to protect the civic space in Nigeria. | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | Educate entertainment industry to identify and challenge Big Tech narratives | Community improvement and capacity building | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| East West Management Institute | New York, NY | Supports Malaysian tech, human rights, social justice, and civil grants | Education | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Ideas | Kuala Lumpur, MY | Dialogue and research on Malay/Bumiputera policies and Strengthening organisational capacity | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Myanmar Now LTD | Melbourne, AS | Support the investigative journalism organisation's business model. | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Shehu Musa Yar'adua Foundation Nigeria | Abuja, NI | To protect Nigerian journalists, media houses and civil society partners | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Tech Global Institute (tgi) | Brampton, CA | Support content moderation and civil society organisations in Asia | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Women Win | Amsterdam, NL | To Support seed, resource, and sustain a feminist technology ecosystem. | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Accountability Lab Nigeria | Abuja, NI | Shifting civic engagement and support fundamental freedoms of magginalized communities. | $130,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Luchadoras | Mexico City, MX | Develops accountability journalism, GenAI focus, and surveillance newsroom. | $130,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Amabhungane | Cape Town, SF | Developing impactful investigations, improve communications, audience engagement and editorial capacity | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Institute for Strategy and Policy (us Entity) | Newark, CA | Promote democratic leadership and strengthen civic participation by conducting research, | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | Support intersection of politics and digital technology | $125,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Ela - Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia Y Genero | Ciudad de Buenos Aires, AR | Promoting women's political participation in Argentina and address challenges | $121,467 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Finance Uncovered | London, UK | Support the investigation of illicit finance stories in investigative journalism. | $120,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Fundacion Mi Sangre (FMS) | Medellin, CO | Building civic and political capacities in youth to shape decision-making | $120,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Siasa Place | Nairobi, KE | To promote youth participation in democratic processes | $120,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Haki Africa | Mvita, KE | Empowers communities to hold power accountable and uplift underrepresented voices. | $110,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Radio Workshop | New York, NY | To nuance perspectives of African youth via audio story telling | $110,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Ciudades Feministas (ciscsa) | Cordoba, AR | Promoting the political participation of young women in local communities | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Hostwriter | Berlin, GM | help journalists collaborate and amplify structural barriers perspectives from journalists. | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| International Lawyers Project (ilp) | London, UK | Advancing economic and environmental justice and the rule of law | $90,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Extituto - Politica Abierta | Bogota DC, CO | Trains leaders in transparency, collaboration, and citizen involvement in elections. | $80,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Spotlight On Corruption | Lewes, UK | General Operating Grant. | $80,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Haki Yetu Charitable Trust | Mombasa, KE | Advance civic and political participation for Kenyan youth and women. | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Fund for Global Human Rights | Washington, DC | Empowers grassroots groups to adapt amid work-related crackdowns. | International, foreign affairs and national security | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Usc Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism - Norman Lear Center | Los Angeles, CA | To undertake research into the representation of social media platforms | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | Hadley, MA | Supporting critical and comparative research to inform pro-democracy coalition strategies. | $48,811 | apps.irs.gov | |
| The New Humanitarian | Geneva, SZ | To support practical insights and thought leadership to international journalism | $35,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Nossas | Rio de Janeiro, BR | Support the continuity of Grantee's work at Brazil national level. | $5,500 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Education | $1,213,173 |
| Public and societal benefit | $650,000 |
| Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $500,000 |
| Crime and legal-related | $250,000 |
| Environment | $230,000 |
| Human services | $179,600 |
| Community improvement and capacity building | $150,000 |
| International, foreign affairs and national security | $50,000 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| District of Columbia | $3,756,766 |
| New York | $3,502,773 |
| California | $2,140,020 |
| North Carolina | $125,000 |
| Massachusetts | $48,811 |
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Updated November 14, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.