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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 FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$9.3MRecreation & Sports$8.7MEducation$5.1MAnimals$3.3MReligion$1.3MHealth$820kPhilanthropy$768kEnvironment$350kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $208k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $709k
  • $250k+8 grants · $6.1M
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$86M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAURITZEN GARDENS$1,600,000
PROJECT HEALTH$1,000,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - BRL PROFESSORSHIP FUND$1,000,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED - CONSERVATION FOR A CONTINENT$800,000
OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS$600,000
WESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS IMPACTING EXCELLENCE$400,000
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS CEMTER$360,000
OMAHA CENTRAL LIBRARY$333,333
KIEWIT DISCOVERY CENTER$200,000
Trinity Cathedral$146,666
ALEXANDRIA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION$75,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE MIDLANDS$75,000
WESTSIDE FOUNDATION$62,500
GALLERY 1516$50,000
OMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION$50,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DUCKS UNLIMITED - CONSERVATION FOR A CONTINENT: $800k → 12%MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $1.0M → 13%NPS Foundation: $200k → 12%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - BRL PROFESSORSHIP FUND: $1.0M → 11%FONTENELLE FOREST: $300k → 6%DUCKS UNLIMITED - CONSERVATION FOR A CONTINENT: $800k → 12%MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $1.0M → 13%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - BRL PROFESSORSHIP FUND: $1.0M → 11%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $500k → 11%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $500k → 11%NEBRASKA MULTI-SPORTS COMPLEX: $250k → 6%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $625k → 12%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $625k → 12%BROWNELL TALBOT SCHOOL: $200k → 12%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $625k → 12%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $625k → 12%LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $500k → 12%OMAHA CENTRAL LIBRARY: $333k → 12%OMAHA CENTRAL LIBRARY: $333k → 12%OMAHA CENTRAL LIBRARY: $333k → 12%OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS: $1.2M → 12%OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS: $1.2M → 12%OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS: $600k → 12%OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS: $600k → 12%OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS: $600k → 12%OMAHA PERFORMING ARTS: $600k → 12%TRINITY CATHEDRAL: $450k → 12%JOSLYN ART MUSEUM - EVOLVE PROJECT: $300k → 12%JOSLYN ART MUSEUM - EVOLVE PROJECT: $300k → 12%JOSLYN ART MUSEUM - EVOLVE PROJECT: $300k → 12%JOSLYN ART MUSEUM - EVOLVE PROJECT: $300k → 12%JOSLYN ART MUSEUM - EVOLVE PROJECT: $300k → 12%UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $260k → 12%WESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS IMPACTING EXCELLENCE: $400k → 12%WESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS IMPACTING EXCELLENCE: $400k → 12%WESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS IMPACTING EXCELLENCE: $400k → 12%BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS CEMTER: $360k → 12%BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS CEMTER: $360k → 12%BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS CEMTER: $360k → 12%LAURITZEN GARDENS: $2.1M → 12%LAURITZEN GARDENS: $1.6M → 12%LAURITZEN GARDENS: $1.6M → 12%LAURITZEN GARDENS: $1.4M → 12%LAURITZEN GARDENS: $1.4M → 12%LAURITZEN GARDENS: $1.3M → 12%CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY COLLABORATIVE CARE COMPLEX: $400k → 12%CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY COLLABORATIVE CARE COMPLEX: $400k → 12%CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY COLLABORATIVE CARE COMPLEX: $400k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
MA
IA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
MD
KS
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35M · 43 repeat orgs$2.6M to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
29

Total granted

$35M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+17%

Still filing today

53%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART
    2× · 2021–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +28%
  • CU
    Creighton University
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +45%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $410k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • LC
    LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -90%
  • NM
    NEBRASKA MULTI-SPORTS COMPLEX
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • NF
    NPS Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $200k
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.

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One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
2
Share Omaha

Our mission is to help nonprofits fulfill theirs.

Philanthropy
3
Omaha Botanical Center Inc

We believe in thoughtful, ecologically-minded practices and the curation of accessible, educational, and inspirational experiences that enhance lives.

Environment
4
Omaha Sports Commission

The mission of the omaha sports commission is to foster a positive socio-economic impact on and a heightened awareness and image of omaha by attracting, hosting, & supporting amateur sporting events.

Recreation & Sports
5
Omaha Community Foundation

To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.

Philanthropy
6
Hastings Museum

The mission of the hastings museum is to bring to life the natural and cultural history of hastings, adams county and the great plains of nebraska through the use of educational programs, exhibits and films.

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7
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
8
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
9
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

To excite, engage and educate through the arts.

Arts & Culture
10
Keep Omaha Beautiful Inc

Keep omaha beautiful's mission is to foster environmental and community stewardship through education, service, and advocacy.

Environment
11
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
12
Stand for Schools

Stand for schools supports nebraska's public schools, working to advance policies that make them stronger while opposing policies that would weaken them.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nebraska Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Learning for All. 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

39 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. 39 of the 76 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
25/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LAURITZEN GARDENS: $9,381,938 · OtherLAURITZEN GARDENSOMAHA PERFORMING ARTS: $4,800,000 · OtherOMAHA PERFORMING ARTSNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $2,500,000 · OtherNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETYPRINCETON UNIVERSITY - BRL PROFESSORSHIP FUND: $2,000,000 · OtherPRINCETON UNIVERSITY - BRL PROFESSORSHIP FUNDDUCKS UNLIMITED - CONSERVATION FOR A CONTINENT: $1,600,000 · OtherJOSLYN ART MUSEUM - EVOLVE PROJECT: $1,500,000 · OtherWESTSIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS IMPACTING EXCELLENCE: $1,200,000 · OtherBEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS CEMTER: $1,080,000 · Other+42 more: $6,765,997 · Other+42 moreMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL BALLET INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $125,000 · Arts & CultureOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $110,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA LAKES MARITIME SOCIETY: $90,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $215,000 · Arts & CultureCreighton University: $1,200,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $1,000,000 · Education+4 more: $102,250 · EducationLAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $500,000 · EnvironmentOMAHA PARKS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EnvironmentUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $410,000 · PhilanthropyNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyALEXANDRIA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentTylers House KC Inc: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $150,000 · Food & NutritionSAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC: $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$30,827,935Arts & Culture$2,665,000Education$2,302,250Environment$550,000Philanthropy$435,000Youth Development$305,000Food & Nutrition$170,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART: $2,000,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetCreighton University: $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST: $500,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS: $410,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetFONTENELLE FOREST: $350,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetBROWNELL-TALBOT SCHOOL: $245,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $150,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALEXANDRIA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 57% of budgetKANSAS SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL BALLET INC: $125,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $110,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $105,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA LAKES MARITIME SOCIETY: $90,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetKICKS FOR A CURE INC: $50,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetTylers House KC Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetARTS & RECREATION FOUNDATION OF OVERLAND: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMINNESOURI SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 32% of budgetLEARNING FOR ALL: $32,250 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEBRASKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SHIPBOARD EDUCATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 326 MID-AMERICA COUNCIL: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDANISH AMERICAN HERITAGE SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetOPERA OMAHA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFILM STREAMS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERS FOR LIVABLE OMAHA: $15,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget100 BLACK MEN OF OMAHA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetOmaha Children's Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRI-FAITH INITIATIVE OF OMAHA NEBRASKA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART ↗
  • Who funds Creighton University ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds LAKE CUNNINGHAM DEVELOPMENT TRUST ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
  • Who funds FONTENELLE FOREST ↗
  • Who funds BROWNELL-TALBOT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDRIA JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds OMAHA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA LAKES MARITIME SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE DANISH IMMIGRANT MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds KICKS FOR A CURE INC ↗
  • Who funds Tylers House KC Inc ↗

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.

The Lozier FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Peter Kiewit Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Weitz Family Foundati…The Hawks FoundationThe Holland FoundationIke & Roz Friedman Fo…Dixon Family Foundati…Burlington Capital Fo…Suzanne & Walter Scot…The Charles and Mary …
The Lozier FoundationNE38.2× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Lauritzen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lauritzen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
12report 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 Lauritzen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lauritzen 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 76 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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