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Locher Family Foundation Trust Xxxxxx1227 at a glance

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Locher Family Foundation Trust Xxxxxx1227

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$23kInternational$21kHealth$16kArts & Culture$11kHuman Services$4kPhilanthropy$4kFood & Nutrition$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
3
States reached
$290k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON$2,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$1,500
LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$1,000
GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY$500
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONSERVANCY$500
ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION$500
COULEE REGION HUMANE SOCIETY INC$500
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$500
GUNDERSEN MEDICAL FOUNDATION$500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$250
SALVATION ARMY$250
WAFER$250
Hunger Task Force$250
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$250
WOMEN'S FUND$250
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CARLETON COLLEGE: $1k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1k → 11%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $2k → 12%MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY MANKATO: $1k → 15%Carroll College: $1k → 9%NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FUND: $1k → 18%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC: $1k → 17%University of Wisconsin-Green Bay: $1k → 10%University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point: $1k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOLARSHIP: $1k → 12%WAFER: $1k → 12%University of Wisconsin-Platteville: $1k → 13%BROWN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1k → 11%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $1k → 12%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $1k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON: $2k → 10%University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire: $1k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1k → 11%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE: $1k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON: $1k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOLARSHIP: $1k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOLARSHIP: $1k → 12%COULEE REGION HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $1k → 12%UNITED WAY: $1k → 12%UNITED WAY: $1k → 12%GUNDERSEN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE: $2k → 12%ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION: $2k → 12%GUNDERSEN MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION: $2k → 12%LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2k → 12%LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2k → 12%LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1k → 12%Viterbo University: $1k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-LA CROSSE: $1k → 12%ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION: $1k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 12%WESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE: $1k → 12%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 12%LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1k → 12%LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1k → 12%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 12%LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $1k → 12%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 12%ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MT
MN
WI
NY
RI
CA
MD
AR
DC
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$73k · 20 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
18

Total granted

$73k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+32%

Still filing today

60%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationHealthFood & NutritionPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +98%
  • LC
    LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +35%
  • SC
    ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $8k · revenue ×176

Funded once

  • VU
    VITERBO UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +7%
  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL RESCUE
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • WT
    WESTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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.

1
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc

The medical college of wisconsin (mcw) is a distinguished leader and innovator in the education and development of the next generation of physicians, (continued in schedule o)

Education
2
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education
3
The Carle Foundation Hospital

To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.

Health
4
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
5
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
6
Lawrence University of Wisconsin

Lawrence university of wisconsin, through its undergraduate residential college and conservatory of music, educates students in the liberal arts and sciences. the university is devoted to excellence and integrity in all of its activities…

Education
7
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
8
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
9
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
10
Clarkson University

Clarkson university is an independent, nationally recognized technological university whose faculty of teacher-scholars aspires to offer superior instruction and engage in high-quality research and scholarship in engineering, business,…

Education
11
Cornell College

Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…

Education
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Crosse Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
18/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $9,000 · OtherLA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISONSALVATION ARMY: $4,250 · OtherSALVATION ARMYUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $4,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOLARSHIP: $3,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOLARSHIPUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE: $3,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSEUNITED WAY: $2,200 · Other+23 more: $17,700 · Other+23 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERE…International Rescue Committee INC: $4,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Co…+1 more: $100 · InternationalST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC: $8,000 · HealthST CLARE HEALTH MI…Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc: $6,500 · HealthGundersen Lutheran…VITERBO UNIVERSITY: $1,000 · EducationCARROLL COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationCOULEE REGION HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · AnimalsWAFER INC: $1,950 · Food & NutritionMISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC: $1,500 · Environment
Other$48,150International$18,600Health$14,500Education$3,000Animals$2,000Food & Nutrition$1,950Environment$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $9,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC: $8,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetGundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOULEE REGION HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAFER INC: $1,950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVITERBO UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARROLL COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY WORKS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC: $750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF WISCONSIN INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds LA CROSSE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST CLARE HEALTH MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds COULEE REGION HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds WAFER INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds VITERBO UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GREAT RIVERS UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds CARROLL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY WORKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER LA CROSS ↗
  • Who funds LA CROSSE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN 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.

Smith Russell & Vera …La Crosse Community F…Cleary-Kumm Foundatio…Mayo Clinic Group Ret…Xcel Energy FoundationTrust Point Foundatio…Sue Anne Gelatt Found…Lyche Family Foundati…Dahl Family Foundatio…John & Kathy Reinhart…Gundersen Lutheran Ad…The Pmg Foundation In…
Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172WI26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Smith Russell & Vera Private Fdn Xxxxxx4172 · La Crosse Community Foundation · Cleary-Kumm Foundation Inc · Mayo Clinic Group Return · Xcel Energy Foundation · Trust Point Foundation Inc Xxxxxx2342 · Sue Anne Gelatt Foundation · Lyche Family Foundation Inc · Dahl Family Foundation Xxxxxx6214 · John & Kathy Reinhart Family Foundation · Gundersen Lutheran Administrative Services Inc · The Pmg Foundation Inc Agy - Uma 1035017881

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 Locher Family Foundation Trust Xxxxxx1227 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Locher Family Foundation Trust Xxxxxx1227. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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