How much does Leonette M & Fred T Lanners Foundation give?

Leonette M & Fred T Lanners Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $184,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Leonette M & Fred T Lanners Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Public Benefit (17%), Youth Development (13%).

Who are Leonette M & Fred T Lanners Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Center of the American Experiment ($109k), Concerned Women for America ($102k), Our Lady of Peace ($99k).

Does Leonette M & Fred T Lanners Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Leonette M & Fred T Lanners Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Leonette M & Fred T Lanners Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, The Minneapolis Foundation, Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota.

Where is Leonette M & Fred T Lanners Foundation based?

Leonette M & Fred T Lanners Foundation is based in MN.

Leonette M & Fred T Lanners Foundation

Leonette M & Fred T Lanners Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Leonette M & Fred T Lanners Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$185k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$366kPublic Benefit$199kYouth Development$155kHuman Services$143kHousing & Shelter$107kHealth$90kCrime & Legal$53kPhilanthropy$24kOther$0

02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k20 grants · $103k
$10k–50k5 grants · $82k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CENTER AMERICAN EXPERIMENT	$30,000
OUR LADY OF PEACE	$20,000
CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA	$12,000
THE REDEMPTION PROJECT	$10,000
HILLSDALE	$10,000
HOPE ACADEMY	$9,900
REBUILDING TOGETHER TWIN CITIES	$7,500
CHOICE	$7,000
BRIDGING	$6,500
BEST PREP	$6,000
HIGHLAND FRIENDSHIP CLUB	$6,000
Individual grant recipient	$6,000
MOBILE HOPE	$5,000
ST JOHNS UNIVERSITY	$5,000
COLLEGE POSSIBLE	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.2M · 36 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.2M

$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%

+26%

Still filing today

72%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther

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

CO
Center of the American Experiment
7× · 2017–2023 · $109k · revenue +105%
CW
CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA
8× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +51%
OL
OUR LADY OF PEACE
7× · 2018–2025 · $99k · revenue +90%

Funded once

NS
NORTHERN STAR COUNCIL
one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -15%
HA
HELP AT YOUR DOOR
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -20%
TO
TLC OPTIONS FOR WOMEN
one grant, 2017 · $5k

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.

Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit

Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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Connectability of Mn Inc

Connectability of mn, inc. works to advance the independence, productivity, and full citizenship of people experiencing physical or invisible barriers.

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Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services

Hope Haven Inc

As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.

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Minnesota Leadership Council On Aging

The Minnesota Leadership Council on Aging is uniting leaders to advance equitable opportunities for all Minnesotans as we age.

Education

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Inc

The Minnesota Council of Nonprofits informs, promotes, connects and strengthens individual nonprofits and the nonprofit sector.

Philanthropy

Youthprise

Youthprise is a nonprofit intermediary that invests in the future of Minnesota by investing in youth. Youthprise's mission is to increase equity with and for Minnesota's indigenous, low-income, and racially diverse youth.

Education

Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services

Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Treehouse Inc; the most unlike its peers is Children's Health Care. 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

32 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. 32 of the 48 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/32

Grantees still filing

23/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$473,330Education$358,550Human Services$156,000Youth Development$154,000Public Benefit$102,000Health$71,000Housing & Shelter$68,000

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

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.

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.

Saint Paul & Minnesota FoundationMN27.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Walser Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · The K 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 Leonette M & Fred T Lanners Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leonette M & Fred T Lanners Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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