Iowa · Private foundation
Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 72
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $898,001
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 80
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $130M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 55 | $5.1M | 22% |
| FY2024 | 72 | $16M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 80 | $11M | 28% |
| FY2022 | 71 | $7.8M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $5.7M | 31% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $5.9M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $8.3M | 66% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $2.3M | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avenue Scholars | $9,965,337 | 7 | 43% |
| African American Empowerment Network In | $3,669,597 | 7 | 40% |
| Completely Kids | $3,601,976 | 9 | 9% |
| Heartland Family Service | $2,960,405 | 8 | 5% |
| Micah House Corporation | $2,785,000 | 7 | 38% |
| Stephen Center Inc | $2,521,867 | 8 | 49% |
| Teammates Mentoring Program | $2,000,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Omaha Bridges Out of Poverty Inc | $1,221,000 | 7 | 34% |
| Southwest Iowa Nonprofit for Collective Impact | $1,074,999 | 4 | 48% |
| East Mills Child Care Solutions | $1,000,000 | 1 | 45% |
Show all 115 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Iowa West Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc
- How much does Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc give?
- Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc reported 56 grants totaling $5,111,789 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 80 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Philanthropy (20%), Education (15%).
- Who are Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Avenue Scholars ($10.0M), African American Empowerment Network In ($3.7M), Completely Kids ($3.6M).
- Does Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation.
- Where is Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc based?
- Charles E Lakin Foundation Inc is based in IA.
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