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Harvey & Carol Lange 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.

$50k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 17
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$842k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Harvey & Carol Lange Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
ReligionEducationHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$50k0%
FY20241$50k0%
FY20231$50k0%
FY20221$50k0%
FY202117$52k88%
FY20204$95kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$238kArts & Culture$50kReligion$32kInternational$25kHuman Services$1kCommunity Improvement$100Science & Tech$75

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ND
MN
IL
WI
NY
IN
NE
MO
MD
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Concordia University$226,00050%
Trinity Lutheran Church$30,0001n/a
Lutheran World Relief Inc$25,00020%
Concordia University Inc$1,00010%
Concordia Seminary$1,0001n/a
We Raise Foundation$50010%
Lutheran Child and Family Services of In/Ky Inc$50010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10010%
Time of Grace Ministry$10010%
In Touch Ministries Inc$10010%
Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Harvey & Carol Lange Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Concordia University$226,00050%
Trinity Lutheran Church$30,0001n/a
Lutheran World Relief Inc$25,00020%
Concordia University Inc$1,00010%
Concordia Seminary$1,0001n/a
We Raise Foundation$50010%
Lutheran Child and Family Services of In/Ky Inc$50010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$10010%
Time of Grace Ministry$10010%
In Touch Ministries Inc$10010%
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$1001n/a

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($62k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harvey & Carol Lange Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetConcordia University: $226,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLutheran World Relief Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetConcordia University Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWe Raise Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran Child and Family Services of In/Ky Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTime of Grace Ministry: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIn Touch Ministries Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Thrivent Financial for LutheransMN15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Harvey & Carol Lange Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Harvey & Carol Lange Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Harvey & Carol Lange Family Foundation

How much does Harvey & Carol Lange Family Foundation give?
Harvey & Carol Lange Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Harvey & Carol Lange Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (69%), Arts & Culture (14%), Religion (9%).
Who are Harvey & Carol Lange Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Concordia University ($226k), Trinity Lutheran Church ($30k), Lutheran World Relief Inc ($25k).
Does Harvey & Carol Lange Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Harvey & Carol Lange Family 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 Harvey & Carol Lange Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Harvey & Carol Lange Family Foundation based?
Harvey & Carol Lange Family Foundation is based in MN.

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 19 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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