Minnesota · Private foundation
Carlson Family Lightshield Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $665k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Carlson Family Lightshield Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 32 | $665k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $381k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $341k | 73% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $509k | 74% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $463k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Covenant Christian Academy | $350,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fishing For Life | $90,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Turning Point Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Community Aid of Elk River | $41,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Stma Breakfast Club | $40,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Big Lake Community Food Shelf Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Achieve Services Inc | $31,033 | 3 | 1% |
| Oak Hills Fellowship | $27,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Abba Corporation | $20,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Hunter Houle Memorial Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | 6% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carlson Family Lightshield Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Connexus Energy Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Bame Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Communitygiving · Hunger Solutions Minnesota · Otto Bremer Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good
How this is measured
Compare Carlson Family Lightshield Foundation with peer funders
About Carlson Family Lightshield Foundation
- How much does Carlson Family Lightshield Foundation give?
- Carlson Family Lightshield Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $665,168 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Carlson Family Lightshield Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Education (17%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are Carlson Family Lightshield Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Covenant Christian Academy ($350k), Fishing For Life ($90k), Turning Point Inc ($50k).
- Does Carlson Family Lightshield Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carlson Family Lightshield Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carlson Family Lightshield Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Connexus Energy Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation, Bame Foundation.
- Where is Carlson Family Lightshield Foundation based?
- Carlson Family Lightshield Foundation is based in MN.
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