Nebraska · Private foundation
Lauritzen 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.
- $7.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,600,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 35
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $86M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Lauritzen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% 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 | 28 | $7.0M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $7.7M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $6.6M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $5.7M | 23% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $5.8M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $4.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Museum of Nebraska Art | $2,000,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Creighton University | $1,200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lake Cunningham Development Trust | $500,000 | 1 | 5% |
| United Way of the Midlands | $410,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Fontenelle Forest | $350,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Brownell-Talbot School | $245,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Harvesters - the Community Food Network | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Alexandria Junior Golf Foundation | $150,000 | 2 | 57% |
| Kansas School of Classical Ballet Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 10% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($30M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lauritzen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · The Holland Foundation · Ike & Roz Friedman Foundation · Dixon Family Foundation · Burlington Capital Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lauritzen Foundation
- How much does Lauritzen Foundation give?
- Lauritzen Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $7,020,749 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 35 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lauritzen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Recreation & Sports (29%), Education (17%).
- Who are Lauritzen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Museum of Nebraska Art ($2.0M), Creighton University ($1.2M), The Trustees of Princeton University ($1.0M).
- Does Lauritzen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lauritzen 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 Lauritzen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Lozier Foundation, The Sherwood Foundation, Peter Kiewit Foundation.
- Where is Lauritzen Foundation based?
- Lauritzen Foundation is based in NE.
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