Research funder · United States
Lumina Foundation
Non-profit educational organization
- Grants since 2016
- 200
- Awarded, last 5 years (where amounts are published)
- $61.7M
- Funded works, last 5 years
- 23
- Funded works, all time
- 155
Grants
2025–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To develop and advance student-centered policy options for creating a higher education system that is accessible, affordable, equitable, and accountable.
2025–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To further examine the role of wealth in college access and BA completion and develop resources to support wealth-based aid implementation
University Of Georgia Research Foundation
2025–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To pilot innovative civic engagement approaches with community colleges
2025–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To study the impact of The Students for Fair Admission decision on admission practices and outcomes.
Class Action Network
2025–2027 · grant · Lumina grants database
To maximize financial aid for students on food assistance in Washington by implementing digital infrastructure
2025–2027 · grant · Lumina grants database
To make grants to states participating in the State Attainment Collaborative.
Trellis Strategies
2025–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To support policy development, institutional coordination, and strategic communications efforts designed to improve postsecondary education.
2025–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To support the Center for Innovation in College Admission and a planning process to reimagine NACAC college fairs
National Association For College Admission Counseling
2025–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To gather and publish essential information about all non-degree credentials in 3 states.
Credential Engine
2025–2027 · grant · Lumina grants database
To study both impact and implementation of a holistic AI-powered digital support.
2025–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To consider the role of Artificial Intelligence in higher education and workforce development
Noesis Collaborative
2025–2027 · grant · Lumina grants database
To strengthen and align education-to-career regional ecosystems to better support students towards high-value pathways
2025–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To create a landscape analysis of state community college associations.
2025–2027 · grant · Lumina grants database
To support the integration of the Council on Postsecondary Education’s Advising Framework and Futuriti platform into Individual Learning Plans and test statewide student profile data collection
2025–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To elevate the experience and voices of student veterans in conversations about credentials of value and higher education policy
Veterans Education Success
2025–2027 · grant · Lumina grants database
To support research, policy analysis, and technical assistance that strengthen affordability, accountability, and student success in postsecondary education
Institute For College Access And Success
2025–2027 · grant · Lumina grants database
To explore issues related to system redesign and artificial intelligence
Ditchley Foundation
2025–2027 · grant · Lumina grants database
To nationally scale and replicate One Million Degree’s evidence-based student support model
One Million Degrees
2025–2027 · grant · Lumina grants database
To strengthen civic participation in Indiana through more and better local news and information.
Free Press Indiana, Inc.
2025–2027 · grant · Lumina grants database
To develop curriculum and training to adapt pathways advising models to support students towards impact credentials
2025–2027 · grant · Lumina grants database
To support the Evansville NewsLab, a student-driven community project seeking to improve local civic journalism.
2025–2027 · grant · Lumina grants database
To implement direct admissions and direct state aid in Tennessee and study the impacts through an RCT
Board Of Regents Of The University Of Wisconsin System
2025–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To provide technical assistance to Illinois and North Carolina as part of the Credentials of Value and Economic Mobility State Challenge.
2025–2027 · grant · Lumina grants database
To support NALEO Education Fund in strengthening Latino policymakers’ ability to address postsecondary education and workforce needs.
Naleo Educational Fund
2024–2027 · grant · Lumina grants database
To provide general operating support for a nonpartisan nonprofit that strengthens local news through public policy education.
Free Press
2024–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To expand Northern Arizona University’s universal admissions program to nine Arizona community college districts
Northern Arizona University Foundation
2024–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To provide general operating support for Our Times, a Black community newspaper in Evansville, Indiana.
Memorial Community Development Corporation
2024–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To support research on trusted messengers for local news in Indiana.
2024–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To support in-depth coverage of higher education issues in Mississippi.
Deep South Today
2024–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To support the Aspen Higher Education Forum with journalists’ participation.
2024–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To support research on public policy solutions for local news sustainability.
Washington Monthly Institute, Inc.
2024–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To help journalists understand and use research on higher education topics through The Journalist’s Resource.
President And Fellows Of Harvard College
2024–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To strengthen the alignment of postsecondary education and workforce via research and technical assistance.
2024–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To support “The UTEP Story,” a book project highlighting a leading institution for advancing Latino student success.
Excelencia In Education, Inc.
2024–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To provide general operating support for the education news nonprofit Chalkbeat Indiana, a partner in the Indiana Local News Initiative.
Civic News Company
2024–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To build the capacity to serve adult learners at HBCUs.
2024–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To support coverage of immigrants seeking education and training after high school.
2024–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To conduct an analysis of student family wealth and existing Pell awards towards the development of the framework of a supplemental, wealth-based Pell Grant
Regents Of The University Of California – Merced
2024–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To automate admissions to the CSU system through California’s official K-12 college & career readiness platform
Trustees Of The California State University
2024–2026 · grant · Lumina grants database
To support the expansion of SUNY’s student reporting programs that bolster local news coverage.
University Of Vermont And State Agricultural College Foundation, Inc.