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Hobsonlucas Family Foundation

Name: Hobsonlucas Family Foundation grants, 2022–2024
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

942
grants reported: $182.6M
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $5,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Multi-year pledges to Princeton and NYU (5-payment structures)
Transfers to Schwab Charitable Fund donor-advised accounts
Civil rights legal advocacy: NAACP Legal Defense Fund, ACLU
Classic film restoration and preservation via The Film Foundation
Black arts institutions: Apollo Theater, Studio Museum, NMAAHC, Met exhibitions
Chicago youth education: After School Matters, Ariel Education Initiative, Saint Sabina

Typical grant

The median grant is $5,000 and half of everything falls between $1,000 and $25,000, so most of the 942 grants are small courtesy checks. Nearly all of the $182 million sits in a handful of eight-figure university pledges and DAF transfers, with a second tier of $250,000 to $2 million gifts to civil rights groups, Black cultural institutions, and Chicago education. Repeat giving is heavy: The Film Foundation, After School Matters, College Track, Studio Museum, Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and American Red Cross all appear more than once, and the university gifts are explicitly structured as installments.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“GENERAL DONATION”
“GRANT PAYMENT 3/5”
“GENERAL DONATION 4 OF 5 PMT”
“GRANT DONATION”
“HOLIDAY MEALS 2024”

Positioning adjacent work

Pitch a named departmental fund, the way Northwell Neurology and Rush Orthopedics did, at $25,000 to $50,000.
Frame health work as equity research; Mount Sinai's Institute for Health Equity Research got funded at $25,000.
Connect to Black history, culture, and civil rights themes, which carry the largest non-university checks.
For education work, anchor to Chicago or college access pipelines rather than generic K-12 reform.

Worth knowing: Giving is concentrated in Chicago, New York, and the Bay Area and reads as relationship-driven rather than programmatic, with trustee and family ties visible in the Princeton, Ariel, and film preservation lines. Roughly $15.5 million went to Schwab Charitable in 2024 alone, meaning a large share of the real decision-making happens inside a donor-advised fund that never shows up in the 990 detail.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Trustees of Princeton University7 grants · $39.4M
Schwab Charitable Fund4 grants · $34.2M
New York University7 grants · $30.0M
University of Southern California11 grants · $10.6M
Academy Foundation2 grants · $6.0M
The Film Foundation11 grants · $5.6M
After School Matters8 grants · $5.3M
Barack Obama Foundation1 grant · $4.8M
Ldf Legal Defense Fund1 grant · $4.0M
Aclu Foundation4 grants · $4.0M

Giving over time

$63.4M

2022

$62.5M

2023

$56.7M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 942 grants.

$13.0M
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2024
3/5 grant payment
$13.0M
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023
Design & construction of residential college
$13.0M
Trustees of Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2022
Design & construction of residential college
$11.5M
Schwab Charitable Fund · San Rafael, CA · 2023
General donation
$10.0M
New York University · New York, NY · 2024
Grant payment 3/5
$8.5M
Schwab Charitable Fund · San Rafael, CA · 2024
General donation
$7.2M
Schwab Charitable Fund · San Rafael, CA · 2022
General donation
$7.0M
Schwab Charitable Fund · San Rafael, CA · 2024
General donation
$5.0M
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
Martin scorsese virtual production center
$5.0M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Usc discretionary support endowment
$5.0M
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
Martin scorsese virtual production center
$5.0M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Support of general use investment portfolio
$4.8M
Barack Obama Foundation · Chicago, IL · 2022
General donation
$4.0M
Ldf Legal Defense Fund · New York, NY · 2023
General donation
$3.4M
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
Martin scorsese dept of cinema studies
$3.4M
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
Martin scorsese dept of cinema studies
$3.0M
Academy Foundation · Beverly Hills, CA · 2023
General donation
$3.0M
Academy Foundation · Beverly Hills, CA · 2022
General donation
$2.0M
Naacp Legal Defense & Educational Fund · New York, NY · 2024
General donation 4 of 5 pmt
$2.0M
Naacp Legal Defense & Educational Fund · New York, NY · 2024
Grant donation
$2.0M
After School Matters · Chicago, IL · 2022
2022 summer program
$1.6M
New York University · New York, NY · 2023
Martin scorsese scholarship fund
$1.6M
New York University · New York, NY · 2022
Martin scorsese scholarship fund
$1.0M
Aclu Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General donation
$1.0M
Aclu Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Immigrants right projects
$1.0M
Apollo Theater Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General donation
$1.0M
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation · Center City, MN · 2024
General donation
$1.0M
Aclu Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
General donation
$1.0M
Apollo Theater Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
General donation
$1.0M
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation · Center City, MN · 2023
General donation
$1.0M
Telluride Film Festival · Berkeley, CA · 2023
The nugget project in honor of mr tom luddy
$1.0M
The Film Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General donation
$1.0M
Aclu Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General donation
$1.0M
After School Matters · Chicago, IL · 2022
Asm challenge program
$1.0M
Apollo Theater Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General donation
$1.0M
Feeding America · Chicago, IL · 2022
General donation
$1.0M
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation · Center City, MN · 2022
General donation
$1.0M
Marin General Hospital Found · Greenbrae, CA · 2022
General donation
$1.0M
Sesame Workshop · New York, NY · 2022
Through our eyes project
$1.0M
The Film Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
General donation
$1.0M
Young Eisner Scholars · Inglewood, CA · 2022
General donation
$900,000
The Film Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
General donation
$793,101
Friends of the Cineteca Di Bologna · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Film preservation project
$650,000
The Film Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Grant donation
$621,882
The Film Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Friends of the cineteca di bologna
$550,000
After School Matters · Chicago, IL · 2023
General donation
$550,000
After School Matters · Chicago, IL · 2022
General donation
$539,007
The Faith Community of Saint Sabina · Chicago, IL · 2024
General donation
$538,193
St Sabina Church · Chicago, IL · 2023
General donation
$513,162
Friends of Cineteca Di Bologna · New York, NY · 2022
2022 film preservation/restoration project
$500,000
After School Matters · Chicago, IL · 2024
General donation
$500,000
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2024
Costume institute exhibition: black dandy: elements of style
$500,000
The One Campaign · Washington, DC · 2024
General donation
$500,000
The One Campaign · Washington, DC · 2023
General donation
$500,000
The One Campaign · Washington, DC · 2022
General donation
$500,000
US Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2022
Ukraine relief fund
$494,805
Regents University of California Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Film preservation project
$400,000
Museum of Modern Art · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Film preservation project
$374,172
The Film Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Regents university of ca los angeles
$350,000
The Film Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Buster keaton: a hard act to follow
$342,511
The UCLA Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
2022 film preservation/restoration project
$300,000
American Red Cross · Washington, DC · 2023
California flood relief efforts
$256,946
The Film Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Friends of the british film institute
$253,854
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Support of general use investment portfolio
$250,946
After School Matters · Chicago, IL · 2022
Asm stipend fund
$250,000
Ariel Education Initiative · Chicago, IL · 2024
General donation
$250,000
College Advising Corps · Raleigh, NC · 2024
General donation
$250,000
Northwell Health Foundation · New Hyde Park, NY · 2024
Department of neurology fund
$250,000
Teach for America · Boston, MA · 2024
General donation
$250,000
The Chicago Public Education Fund · Chicago, IL · 2024
General donation
$250,000
The Hamlin School · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General donation
$250,000
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2024
Flight into egypt exhibition
$250,000
World Trade Center · New York, NY · 2024
General donation
$250,000
American Red Cross · Washington, DC · 2023
Wildfire relief efforts on maui
$250,000
Children'S Hospital Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Chla health equity initiatives
$250,000
Feeding America · Chicago, IL · 2023
General donation
$250,000
Shedd Aquarium · Chicago, IL · 2023
General donation
$250,000
Teach for America · Boston, MA · 2023
General donation
$250,000
The Chicago Public Education Fund · Chicago, IL · 2023
General donation
$250,000
The Hamlin School · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General donation
$250,000
US Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2023
Earthquake relief efforts in turkey and syria
$250,000
US Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2023
General donation
$250,000
World Central Kitchen · Washington, DC · 2023
Israel & gaza relief efforts
$250,000
College Advising Corps · Chapel Hill, NC · 2022
General donation
$250,000
Giffords Law Center To Prevent Gun Violence · San Francsico, CA · 2022
General donation
$250,000
Mayors Fund for Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General donation
$250,000
Teach for America · Boston, MA · 2022
General donation
$250,000
The Chicago Public Education Fund · Chicago, IL · 2022
General donation
$250,000
The Hamlin School · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Operating support
$250,000
Vital Voices Global Partnership · Washington, DC · 2022
General donation
$225,000
Archival Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
2022 film preservation/restoration project
$210,734
After School Matters · Chicago, IL · 2024
General donation
$209,015
After School Matters · Chicago, IL · 2023
General donation
$200,000
The Film Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
National film preservation foundation
$200,000
National Film Preservation Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Film preservation project
$200,000
National Film Preservation Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
2022 film preservation/restoration project
$200,000
Northwell Health Foundation · New Hyde Park, NY · 2022
Dept of neurology fund (lhhs91809)
$200,000
Ucsf Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Mac community outreach program
$150,000
Chapel & York US Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General donation
$150,000
Journy To Lead · Annapolis, MD · 2024
General donation

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.