Illinois · Private foundation
Lakshmi 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.
- $173k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $16,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Lakshmi Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 20 | $163k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $146k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $105k | 7% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $119k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $138k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $150k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $146k | 19% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $145k | 11% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aspire of Illinois | $114,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Illinois | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Special Olympics Illinois | $75,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Center for Independent Futures | $72,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation | $50,000 | 9 | 1% |
| St Louis Arc Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $50,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Voices & Faces Project | $45,000 | 8 | 1% |
| National Public Radio Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($300k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lakshmi 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: The Chicago Community Trust · Baxter International Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Coleman Foundation Inc · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · First Bank Chicago Foundation · George M Eisenberg Foundation for Charities · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Chicago Foundation for Women · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation
How this is measured
About Lakshmi Foundation
- How much does Lakshmi Foundation give?
- Lakshmi Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $173,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lakshmi Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Health (20%), Arts & Culture (18%).
- Who are Lakshmi Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Aspire of Illinois ($114k), Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ($90k), Planned Parenthood of Illinois ($80k).
- Does Lakshmi Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lakshmi 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 Lakshmi Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Baxter International Foundation, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is Lakshmi Foundation based?
- Lakshmi Foundation is based in IL.
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