Minnesota · Private foundation
Living Springs Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 111
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $277,112
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 69
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 25
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Living Springs Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 109 | $1.2M | 41% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $297k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 69 | $230k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 67 | $267k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $397k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 63 | $336k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 66 | $350k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 58 | $154k | 21% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infact DBA Corporate Accountability | $143,029 | 9 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $139,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Franklin Land Trust Inc | $137,915 | 8 | 3% |
| Hitchcock Center for the Environment Inc | $136,500 | 8 | 4% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $122,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Earthjustice | $108,500 | 8 | 0% |
| New England Public Media Inc | $98,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Center for Biological Diversity Inc | $87,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc | $77,000 | 9 | 0% |
| American Indian College Fund | $63,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 110 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($830k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Living Springs Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 88 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Hurdle Hill Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Zoe Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Select Equity Group Foundation · Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II
How this is measured
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About Living Springs Foundation
- How much does Living Springs Foundation give?
- Living Springs Foundation reported 111 grants totaling $1,535,112 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 69 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Living Springs Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (51%), Philanthropy (11%), Civil Rights (6%).
- Who are Living Springs Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ($143k), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($139k), Franklin Land Trust Inc ($138k).
- Does Living Springs Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Living Springs Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Living Springs Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, The Beveridge Family Foundation, Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc.
- Where is Living Springs Foundation based?
- Living Springs Foundation is based in MN.
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