Promoting innovative scholarship

Promoting innovative scholarship

Our Programs

Luce programs seek to advance and disseminate knowledge, ensuring that new ideas have an impact in the world.

Our Fellowships

The Luce Foundation invests in and connects knowledge makers and young leaders through its fellowships.

Our Grants

The Foundation has awarded more than 5800 grants and over $1 billion in its 80 years of grantmaking.

American Art

The American Art Program supports museums, universities, and arts organizations in their efforts to advance the understanding and experience of American and Native American visual arts through research, exhibitions, publications, and collection projects.

Asia

The goals of the Asia Program are to encourage the development of expertise, capacity and resources on East and Southeast Asia, and to foster scholarly and cultural exchange between the United States and Asia.

Clare Boothe Luce Program for Women in STEM

Since its first grants in 1989 the Clare Boothe Luce (CBL) Program for Women in STEM has become the single most significant source of private support for women in science, mathematics and engineering in Higher Education in the United States.

Higher Education

The Higher Education program seeks to stimulate innovative scholarship, disseminate research to communities of practice, and prepare the next generation of diverse faculty and academic leaders—especially in the humanities and social sciences.

Luce Scholars

The Luce Scholars Program is a nationally competitive fellowship program that seeks to enhance the understanding of Asia among potential leaders in American society by providing awarded scholars with stipends, language training, and individualized professional placement in Asia for one year.

Public Policy

Public Policy grants have supported orientation programs for new members of Congress, the study of the Presidency, and analysis of the judicial system. Each year the Luce Foundation approves a limited number of Public Policy grants to organizations that promote best practices in and knowledge about philanthropy.

Religion and Theology

The Religion and Theology Program aims to foster fresh thinking about religion across multiple social and cultural contexts, to expand and diversify critical intellectual engagement with religion in the United States and beyond, and to promote creative public-facing scholarship.

Religion in International Affairs

The Henry R. Luce Initiative on Religion in International Affairs aims to provide intellectual leadership, develop new paradigms for research and teaching, create new resources and networks, and enhance public understanding of and discussion about religion in the international sphere.

Oct. 12, 2021

Religion and Theology Grantees Partner with Community Nonprofits to Provide COVID Aid

Religion and Theology, Responding to Covid-19

Oct. 6, 2021

Redesigning the Luce Scholars Admissions Process and Expanding Alumni Engagement

Luce Scholars, Foundation News

Oct. 5, 2021

Advancing Public Knowledge

Foundation News, Philanthropy

Image One: 2018 Public Theology and Racial Justice Collaborative © Vanderbilt University. Image Two: Sarah DiRoma '19, Luce Scholar, Chemistry major, Clare Boothe Luce Scholarship Program, Research, Labs, in Albertus Magnus Hall. © Providence College. Image Three: The GroundTruth Project religion reporting trip in partnership with USC-Annenberg to Korea. © GroundTruth Project / Alan Mittelstaedt.