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Gerald R Lanz and Lisa Kearns Lanz Family Foundation at a glance

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Gerald R Lanz and Lisa Kearns Lanz Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Health$163kEducation$38kPhilanthropy$25kReligion$20kRecreation & Sports$15kHuman Services$15kPublic Benefit$10kArts & Culture$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$428k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLLEGE EDUCATION & CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$25,000
AVOW HOSPICE$25,000
SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$5,000
LYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION$2,100
NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN (THE SHELTER): $10k → 10%AVOW HOSPICE: $25k → 10%AVOW HOSPICE: $20k → 10%AVON HOSPICE: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OH
PA
CA
KY
NM
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$203k · 9 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

$203k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+67%

Still filing today

78%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AF
    Avow Foundation Inc
    4× · 2019–2024 · $85k · revenue +129%
  • AH
    AVOW Hospice Inc
    3× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +29%
  • CE
    College Educational and Charitable Foundation
    2× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue ×12

Funded once

  • CN
    CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2018 · $19k
  • LC
    LIGONIER CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -6%
  • THE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +90%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
2
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
3
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
4
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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5
University of Illinois Foundation

The Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, is an independent and separate nonprofit entity from the University of Illinois. Our mission is to encourage and administer private gifts and serve the UI System by working closely with…

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM: $18,500 · OtherCHILDREN'S NATIONAL HEALTH SYSTEMCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · OtherCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF NAPLES: $15,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF NAPLE…THE REAGAN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherTHE REAGAN FOUNDATIONNCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPY: $7,500 · OtherNCH CENTER FOR PHILANTHROPYEVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherEVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST ANNS PARISH NAPLES: $5,000 · OtherST ANNS PARISH NAPLESSENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC: $4,800 · Other+1 more: $200 · OtherAvow Foundation Inc: $85,000 · HealthAvow Foundation Inc+1 more: $2,500 · HealthAVOW Hospice Inc: $55,000 · Human ServicesAVOW Hospice IncTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED W…College Educational and Charitable Foundation: $27,500 · EducationCollege Edu…University of Chicago: $2,000 · EducationUniversity …+1 more: $1,000 · EducationLIGONIER CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $2,500 · Arts & CultureNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $3,550 · EnvironmentLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,100 · Housing & Shelter
Other$91,000Health$87,500Human Services$65,000Education$30,500Recreation & Sports$15,000Arts & Culture$7,500Environment$3,550Housing & Shelter$2,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAvow Foundation Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAVOW Hospice Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCollege Educational and Charitable Foundation: $27,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIGONIER CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN & CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR FRIENDSHIP CENTERS INC: $4,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $3,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN SAGE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Shoulders Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gerald R Lanz and Lisa Kearns Lanz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerald R Lanz and Lisa Kearns Lanz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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