· Private foundation
Lff Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $13k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN | $100,000 |
| CIRCLE OF FRIENDS | $2,500 |
| SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTION | $1,000 |
| ST JOHN NEUMANN CATHOLIC HIGH SCH | $1,000 |
| REASON FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MILWAUKEE RESCUE MISSION | $1,000 |
| MERCATUS CENTER | $700 |
| CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $500 |
| NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE | $500 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $500 |
| JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS | $300 |
| FRIENDS OF GREENWOOD CEMETARY | $272 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IFINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +57%
- NRNATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +61%
- CICATO INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- SJST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- NCNAPLES CIRCLE OF FRIENDSone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
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See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 74 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TAX FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds The League Club Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RADIO MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds Mercatus Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TEENS GROW GREENS 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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