Iowa · 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.
- $3.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Lauridsen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M 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 | 27 | $3.5M | 41% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $2.4M | 67% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $1.4M | 100% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $220k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $500k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $90k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $300k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $150k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ballet Des Moines | $2,000,000 | 2 | 35% |
| Des Moines Metro Opera Inc | $1,200,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Culver Educational Foundation | $550,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Iowa Confluence Water Trails | $400,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Hope Ministries | $300,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Friends of the World Food Program Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Des Moines Symphony Association | $225,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Mainframe Studios | $220,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Lyric Opera of Chicago | $210,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Des Moines Childrens Museum | $200,000 | 1 | 11% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lauridsen Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About Lauridsen Family Foundation
- How much does Lauridsen Family Foundation give?
- Lauridsen Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $3,527,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lauridsen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (56%), Education (18%), Religion (5%).
- Who are Lauridsen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ballet Des Moines ($2.0M), Des Moines Metro Opera Inc ($1.2M), Culver Educational Foundation ($550k).
- Does Lauridsen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lauridsen Family 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 Lauridsen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bookey Family Foundation, The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc, Meredith Corporation Foundation.
- Where is Lauridsen Family Foundation based?
- Lauridsen Family Foundation is based in IA.
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