Lumina Foundation places a high value on evaluation. We support efforts that look closely at our work and the work of our grantees to answer: What have we learned? What works? What’s next? We also support evaluation that examines our own work to help us advance our mission and serve our grantees. Although grantee perceptions are not definitive evidence of a foundation’s end social impact, they can help assess a foundation’s overall performance and progress.
Making the numbers add up
October 2009
A guide for using data in college access and success programs
Indiana’s Twenty-first Century Scholars program: A statewide story with national implications
October 2008
This report summarizes three separate evaluative research projects, all of which address different but closely related aspects of Indiana’s Twenty-first Century Scholars program — an Indiana-supported effort to promote pre-college preparation and postsecondary access for low-income students.
Recent grants are points of promise in the effort to enhance student success
April 2006
This brief explores Lumina Foundation’s early efforts to learn more about student retention.
Grantee Perception Reports
This survey provides comparative data on grantee perceptions of Foundation performance on a variety of dimensions.
Grantee Perception Report 2008 108 pages | 724k
Grantee Perception Report 2006 110 pages | 460k
Grantee Perception Report 2005 51 pages | 656k
Opinion Leader Surveys
Opinion Leader Survey 2007 39 pages | 3.6M
This 2007 evaluation examines how opinion leaders in postsecondary access and success and philanthropy perceive Lumina Foundation’s performance and organizational effectiveness. (July 2007)
