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.

Where is Living Springs Foundation based?

Living Springs Foundation is based in MN.

Living Springs Foundation

Living Springs Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Living Springs Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M

Granted FY2025still arriving

111

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$277k

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 2025.

Environment$2.0MPhilanthropy$438kCivil Rights$236kFood & Nutrition$220kEducation$217kReligion$200kArts & Culture$171kInternational$71kOther$0

02FY2025 · 111 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k72 grants · $298k
$10k–50k29 grants · $460k
$50k–250k9 grants · $500k
$250k+1 grant · $277k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
JP Morgan Charitable Gifting Fund	$277,112
EARTHJUSTICE	$75,000
NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC	$75,000
HOWARD UNIVERSITY	$50,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY	$50,000
THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC	$50,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC	$50,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC	$50,000
AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND	$50,000
VOORHEES UNIVERSITY	$50,000
HITCHCOCK CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC	$40,000
OXMOOR FARM FOUNDATION INC	$30,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC	$30,000
HILLTOWN LAND TRUST INC	$25,000
COMMUNITY INVOLVED IN SUSTAINING AGRICULTURE INC	$25,000

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, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Living Springs Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Living Springs Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 3.3% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.9M · 77 repeat orgs$517k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

77 repeat relationships: 64 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.9M

$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%

+14%

Still filing today

84%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $466k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentInternationalEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesReligionOther

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

ID
Infact DBA Corporate Accountability
9× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +27%
SP
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $139k · revenue +10%
HC
HITCHCOCK CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +66%

Funded once

HV
Hybrid Vigor Music Inc
one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -5% · 51% of their budget
CC
CITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP
one grant, 2020 · $10k
CC
CREATIVE COLLECTIVE FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST INC
one grant, 2019 · $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.

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment

World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International

Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment

Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth's mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, with the knowledge, inspiration, and opportunity to heal the Earth and reclaim our future.

Environment

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International

Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment

Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mongabay Org Corp; the most unlike its peers is Family Diversity Projects Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

105 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. 105 of the 137 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)

105/105

Grantees still filing

68/105

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,726,450Environment$1,040,344Philanthropy$411,645Education$221,000Arts & Culture$159,500Crime & Legal$139,000Human Services$115,000

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.

Community Foundation of Western MassachusettsMA47.8× affinity22 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Living Springs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Living Springs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

18get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

2rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home