· Private foundation
Lahti Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST NORTHERN LAKES FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| LIFE HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| MILLER - DWAN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Duluth Library Foundation | $10,000 |
| MN MASONIC CHILDRENS CLINIC | $5,000 |
| ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC | $5,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTHLAND | $5,000 |
| DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC | $5,000 |
| REACH MENTORING PROGRAM INC | $5,000 |
| YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN | $5,000 |
| SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN | $5,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC | $5,000 |
| DULUTH CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SHSecond Harvest Northland9× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +159%
- LHLIFE HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +42%
- MFMILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- MDMN DARE NORTH EASTERN MNone grant, 2019 · $5k
- MTMinnesota Teen Challenge Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +88%
- AHALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +26%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Engaging the community to end hunger
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Mn community measurement empowers stakeholders with meaningful information to drive improvement.
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
The mission of the university nursery school is to prepare the children in our community for a successful and fulfilling future throughout their education and beyond. we strive daily to provide loving care, as well as high quality and…
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
Promote health through skiing
Benedictine living community - st. peter is a catholic organization entrusted with advancing the health care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. our mission is to witness to god's love by providing compassionate,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Damiano of Duluth Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Matinee Musicale Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Second Harvest Northland ↗
- Who funds LIFE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MILLER-DWAN FOUNDATION AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds DAMIANO OF DULUTH INC ↗
- Who funds BEST CHRISTMAS EVER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA MASONIC CHILDREN'S CLINIC FOR COMMUNICATION DISORDERS ↗
- Who funds DULUTH CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN SHELTER FOR BATTERED WOMEN ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY R I D E ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds DULUTH PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DULUTH LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Matinee Musicale Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Lloyd K Johnson Foundation · Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation · Minnesota Power Foundation · Ordean Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Wildey Mitchell Family Foundation · Northland Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · James and Nancy Holmgren Foundation · Smdc Medical Center · Pachel Foundation · Head of the Lakes United Way
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lahti Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.