Through 5,800 grants totaling more than $1 billion, the Henry Luce Foundation has played a critical role in strengthening the field of Asia studies, encouraging interfaith understanding, raising the visibility of American art in museums and universities, and closing the gender gap in STEM research and teaching.
For nearly a century, the Henry Luce Foundation has honored the lives and work of Henry R. Luce and his parents, Henry Winters Luce and Elizabeth Root Luce.
The Foundation recognizes that deepening understanding is essential to advancing justice, democratic values, and a sustainable environment.
We believe that ideas, stories, data, creative expression, and scholarship are the tools that communities use to define themselves and their aspirations, to assert their rights, and to live and collaborate with others. Therefore, the Foundation invests in organizations, networks, and individuals who create, care for, and share knowledge for the benefit of their communities and the wider world.
Our History
We recognize that knowledge takes many forms and that knowledge makers pursue their work in many different ways.
So we cast a wide net, looking both to established and to emerging or under recognized thinkers. We also understand that change in the world of ideas can be slow, and so we commit to fields and questions for many years. At the same time, we know that new ways of thinking are always emerging often from unexpected directions and so we must be attentive to what is new and innovative.
We understand that our knowledge and judgment are limited and imperfect. Therefore, we approach our work in the spirit of partnership and humility, in pursuit of a better world.
Our Grants
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Explore our rich history, our people and values, and the many ways we support our long-time areas of focus, all while identifying new opportunities to strengthen public knowledge and understanding.
Our VisionWe envision a world in which diverse people and communities thrive, determining their own best futures and working together in pursuit of knowledge and shared understanding.
Our PrioritiesWe believe change depends on experiential knowledge, intellectual inquiry, and human connection.
We invest in knowledge makers, seeding new ideas and approaches, fostering the next generation of leaders, supporting public scholarship, and creating opportunities for constructive dialogue and finding common ground.Â
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