Minnesota · Private foundation
Lenzmeier 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.
- $3.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Lenzmeier Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k 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 | 19 | $3.2M | 5% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $1.9M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $1.8M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $1.9M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $1.5M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $1.4M | 67% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota Orchestral Association | $2,450,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities | $2,010,550 | 7 | 5% |
| Northside Achievement Zone | $810,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis | $785,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Pacer Center Inc | $600,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Guthrie Theater Foundation | $475,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Advocates For Human Rights | $457,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Minneapolis Parks Foundation | $382,500 | 3 | 4% |
| Milkweed Editions Inc | $350,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Ascension Catholic Grade School | $310,000 | 6 | n/a |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lenzmeier Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Lenfestey Family Foundation Inc · Opus Foundation · Target Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Charities Aid Foundation America · Margaret a Cargill Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lenzmeier Family Foundation
- How much does Lenzmeier Family Foundation give?
- Lenzmeier Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $3,168,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Lenzmeier Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Youth Development (18%), Health (9%).
- Who are Lenzmeier Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Minnesota Orchestral Association ($2.5M), Boys and Girls Clubs of the Twin Cities ($2.0M), Northside Achievement Zone ($810k).
- Does Lenzmeier Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lenzmeier 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 Lenzmeier Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Lenzmeier Family Foundation based?
- Lenzmeier Family Foundation is based in MN.
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