Ohio · Private foundation
Lahti Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $115k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Lahti 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.
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 | 15 | $110k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $100k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $115k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $95k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $100k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $115k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $109k | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Second Harvest Northland | $175,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Life House Inc | $105,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Miller-Dwan Foundation and Subsidiaries | $60,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Damiano of Duluth Inc | $60,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Best Christmas Ever Inc | $55,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Young Life | $42,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Minnesota Masonic Children's Clinic for Communication Disorders | $25,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Duluth Children's Museum Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Courage Kenny Foundation | $22,000 | 4 | 0% |
| North Country R I D E | $20,000 | 4 | 4% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Second Harvest Northland | $175,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Life House Inc | $105,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Miller-Dwan Foundation and Subsidiaries | $60,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Damiano of Duluth Inc | $60,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Best Christmas Ever Inc | $55,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Young Life | $42,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Minnesota Masonic Children's Clinic for Communication Disorders | $25,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Duluth Children's Museum Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Courage Kenny Foundation | $22,000 | 4 | 0% |
| North Country R I D E | $20,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Safe Haven Shelter for Battered Women | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Union Gospel Mission Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Duluth Playhouse Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Duluth Library Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Allina Health Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Matinee Musicale Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($280k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lahti Family 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: 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
How this is measured
About Lahti Family Foundation
- How much does Lahti Family Foundation give?
- Lahti Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $115,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lahti Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (28%), Health (20%), Food & Nutrition (18%).
- Who are Lahti Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Second Harvest Northland ($175k), Life House Inc ($105k), Miller-Dwan Foundation and Subsidiaries ($60k).
- Does Lahti Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lahti Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lahti Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lloyd K Johnson Foundation, Duluth-Superior Area Community Foundation, Minnesota Power Foundation.
- Where is Lahti Family Foundation based?
- Lahti Family Foundation is based in OH.
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