· Private foundation
Lauridsen 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.
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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+4 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BALLET DES MOINES | $1,000,000 |
| DES MOINES METRO OPERA | $400,000 |
| PLYMOUTH CHURCH | $382,000 |
| WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA | $250,000 |
| CMA FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| DES MOINES CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $200,000 |
| IOWA CONFLUENCE WATER TRAILS | $200,000 |
| MET OPERA | $100,000 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES | $100,000 |
| DES MOINES SYMPHONY | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA | $100,000 |
| CIVIC DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS | $75,000 |
| CITIZENS FOR SCHOOL BETTERMENT | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN | $50,000 |
| NORMANDY FUND | $50,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $550k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 11 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- BDBALLET DES MOINES2× · 2024–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +10% · 35% of their budget
- DMDES MOINES METRO OPERA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +5%
Culver Educational Foundation2× · 2019–2021 · $550k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DSMone grant, 2017 · $300k
- MSMAINFRAME STUDIOSone grant, 2022 · $220k · revenue -49%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue +30%
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 excite, engage and educate through the arts.
Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
The mission of madison opera is to produce operas of the highest artistic standards.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
To excite, engage & educate constituents through the presentation of collections, exhibitions, and programming; to form mutually beneficial partnerships that will enhance the role of the arts within the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Des Moines Metro Opera Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Canine Cancer Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 38. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 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. 27 of the 44 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 BALLET DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES METRO OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds Culver Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds IOWA CONFLUENCE WATER TRAILS ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MAINFRAME STUDIOS ↗
- Who funds Lyric Opera of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE CMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL IOWA ↗
- Who funds National Canine Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Simpson College ↗
- Who funds BRAVO GREATER DES MOINES INC ↗
- Who funds MIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIC MUSIC ASSOCIATION DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER AT SIXTH ↗
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: Bookey Family Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Meredith Corporation Foundation · John Ruan Foundation Trust · Gartner Family Foundation % Michael G Gartner · Fred Maytag Family Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Thomas & Linda Koehn Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · The Independent Charitable Gift Fund
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 Lauridsen 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.