Wisconsin · Private foundation
Lff Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $113k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $247k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Lff Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 | $112k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $14k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $13k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $16k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $16k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $9k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $8k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $18k | 36% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Institute for Justice | $9,100 | 9 | 0% |
| National Review Institute | $6,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Cato Institute | $5,350 | 8 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | $4,854 | 8 | n/a |
| The Charles E Kubly Foundation Inc | $3,100 | 9 | 0% |
| The Reason Foundation | $3,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Tax Foundation | $2,300 | 7 | 0% |
| Settlement Music School of Philadelphia | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The League Club Inc | $1,900 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Institute for Justice | $9,100 | 9 | 0% |
| National Review Institute | $6,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Cato Institute | $5,350 | 8 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Rescue Mission | $4,854 | 8 | n/a |
| The Charles E Kubly Foundation Inc | $3,100 | 9 | 0% |
| The Reason Foundation | $3,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Tax Foundation | $2,300 | 7 | 0% |
| Settlement Music School of Philadelphia | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The League Club Inc | $1,900 | 1 | 0% |
| United Community Center Inc | $1,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Radio Milwaukee Inc | $1,150 | 3 | 0% |
| Mercatus Center Inc | $1,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vertex Partnership Academies Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Heartland Institute | $800 | 5 | 0% |
| Teens Grow Greens Inc | $750 | 2 | 0% |
| Fox Point Foundation Inc | $600 | 4 | n/a |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc | $500 | 2 | 0% |
| Badger Institute Inc | $450 | 2 | 0% |
| Grand Avenue Club Inc | $350 | 2 | 0% |
| Foundation for Cultural Review | $150 | 1 | n/a |
| American Transparency | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| North Shore Fire-Rescue Foundation Inc | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Milwaukee Art Museum Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Woodson Center | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($64k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lff 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: Rite-Hite Foundation Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
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About Lff Foundation
- How much does Lff Foundation give?
- Lff Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $112,757 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lff Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Human Services (9%), Public Benefit (6%).
- Who are Lff Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc ($100k), Institute for Justice ($9k), National Review Institute ($6k).
- Does Lff Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lff Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lff Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rite-Hite Foundation Inc, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc, Bradley Impact Fund Inc.
- Where is Lff Foundation based?
- Lff Foundation is based in WI.
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