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Lathrop Gpm Foundation

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$299k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$419kArts & Culture$72kEducation$51kCivil Rights$49kPhilanthropy$37kEnvironment$15kHuman Services$15kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $146,022, the rows itemized in this filing. The $298,717 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $152,695 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $107k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$284k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FUND FOR LEGAL AID$34,162
MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER$25,000
GUTHRIE THEATER$15,000
MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT$12,260
UMKC LAW FOUNDATION$10,850
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$10,000
BET TZEDEK$8,250
NEW HOUSE$8,000
MINNEAPOLIS PARKS FOUNDATION$8,000
LEGALCORPS$7,500
SOCIAL SYMPHONY OF KANSAS CITY$7,000
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 (FY22–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAFE CONNECTIONS: $7k → 21%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.
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$523k · 13 repeat orgs$155k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$523k
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+36%

Still filing today

85%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalCivil RightsEnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • GT
    GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +93%
  • TF
    THE FUND FOR LEGAL AID
    2× · 2023–2024 · $56k · revenue +40%
  • MI
    MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $53k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TF
    The Foundation of the Federal Bar Association
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -28%
  • TL
    THE LEGAL REVOLUTION
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -45%
  • MM
    Mid MN Legal Aid
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
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
Minnesota Women Lawyers

To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.

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2
Twin Cities Diversity in Practice

To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.

Community Improvement
3
Minnesota Justice Foundation

The minnesota justice foundation creates opportunities for law students to engage in public interest and pro bono legal service and increases the capacity of legal organizations that serve the public interest.

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4
Dakota Plains Legal Services

To promote equal access to justice and improve the lives of low-income clients through quality legal assistance

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5
Minnesota Business Partnership

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…

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6
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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7
Growth & Justice

To develop and advocate for public policy that makes Minnesota's economy more prosperous and fair for all Minnesotans.

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8
Legal Rights Center

Our mission is to work with our communities to seek justice and promote racial equity for those to whom it has been historically denied. we do this through criminal defense, restorative justice, advocacy, and community education.

Crime & Legal
9
Minnesota State Bar Foundation

The minnesota state bar foundation mobilizes legal community philanthropy to achieve access to justice for all minnesotans.

Crime & Legal
10
Michigan Advocacy Program

To advance the safety, independence, and economic stability of those most affected by poverty, racism, and other structurally oppressive systems by increasing access to justice and working for systemic solutions.

Crime & Legal
11
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

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12
Children's Law Center of Minnesota

Children's law center of minnesota promotes and protects the legal rights and well-being of children and youth through legal advocacy, educational outreach, and policy reform.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central Minnesota; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

24 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. 24 of the 29 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
20/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FUND FOR LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $104,460 · OtherFUND FOR LEGAL AID SOCIETYUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $37,245 · OtherUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTAThe Foundation of the Federal Bar Association: $25,000 · OtherThe Foundation of the Federal Bar AssociationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAW SCHOOLBET TZEDEK: $18,250 · OtherBET TZEDEKMid MN Legal Aid: $11,000 · OtherTHE LAW FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY: $10,850 · Other+8 more: $52,150 · Other+8 moreTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AID: $56,162 · Crime & LegalTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AIDMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $52,854 · Crime & LegalMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INCLEGALCORPS: $31,500 · Crime & LegalLEGALCORPSPUBLIC COUNSEL: $30,460 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC COUNSELTHE LEGAL REVOLUTION: $25,000 · Crime & LegalTHE LEGAL REVOLUTIONGREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECT: $12,000 · Crime & LegalGREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECTGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $65,000 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE TH…MINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER: $35,000 · Civil RightsWANTON INJUSTICE LEGAL DETAIL: $9,000 · Civil RightsOPERATION LIBERATION: $7,000 · Civil RightsThe Advocates For Human Rights: $39,750 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $8,000 · EnvironmentSCRAPS KC INC: $7,000 · Environment
Other$278,955Crime & Legal$207,976Arts & Culture$65,000Civil Rights$51,000International$39,750Education$20,000Environment$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR LEGAL AID: $56,162 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $52,854 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetThe Advocates For Human Rights: $39,750 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MINNESOTA: $37,245 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMINNESOTA JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER: $35,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetLEGALCORPS: $31,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetPUBLIC COUNSEL: $30,460 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Foundation of the Federal Bar Association: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE LEGAL REVOLUTION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBET TZEDEK: $18,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT NORTH INNOCENCE PROJECT: $12,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LAW FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY: $10,850 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMinneapolis Parks Foundation: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCRAPS KC INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOPERATION LIBERATION: $7,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSAFE CONNECTIONS: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOLUNTEER LAWYERS NETWORK LTD: $5,150 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFeeding America: $5,000 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.

Saint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Fredrikson & Byron Fo…Larkin Hoffman Daly &…Robins Kaplan Foundat…Pentair FoundationThe McKnight Foundati…Mightycause Charitabl…Faegre Drinker Founda…The Dorsey & Whitney …Fr Bigelow FoundationPohlad Family Foundat…
Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN21.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Fredrikson & Byron Foundation · Larkin Hoffman Daly & Lindgren Ltd Found · Robins Kaplan Foundation · Pentair Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Faegre Drinker Foundation · The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Pohlad Family 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lathrop Gpm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lathrop Gpm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lathrop Gpm Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lathrop Gpm 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.

    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 29 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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