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Lofberg Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$525k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
47%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$10M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Lofberg Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionAnimalsInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving16$505k19%
FY202415$431k47%
FY202313$431k38%
FY202213$436k8%
FY202114$317k43%
FY202011$265k45%
FY201915$276k80%
FY20188$145k38%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.0MReligion$437kCrime & Legal$419kHuman Services$396kArts & Culture$362kInternational$155kHealth$100kCivil Rights$85kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
TN
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends Academy Inc$274,20572%
F O C U S Inc$249,5496n/a
Berkeley Divinity School$155,00031%
Alma del Mar Foundation Inc$130,00034%
Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc$110,00035%
One Simple Wish Inc$95,99131%
Fred M Seed Foundation$75,0003n/a
Divine Mercy Care$70,00031%
The Innocence Project Inc$61,86530%
Old Dartmouth Historical Society$60,00020%
Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of Lofberg Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends Academy Inc$274,20572%
F O C U S Inc$249,5496n/a
Berkeley Divinity School$155,00031%
Alma del Mar Foundation Inc$130,00034%
Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc$110,00035%
One Simple Wish Inc$95,99131%
Fred M Seed Foundation$75,0003n/a
Divine Mercy Care$70,00031%
The Innocence Project Inc$61,86530%
Old Dartmouth Historical Society$60,00020%
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$50,00020%
Love146 Inc$40,00021%
New Bedford Light$40,00021%
Covenant House$35,00010%
Middlesex School$35,00020%
Hope & Main$30,00021%
First Church of Christ in Wethersfield$30,0001n/a
Sylvia Rivera Law Project Inc$26,15331%
Ruff House Rescue Inc$25,67141%
National Abortion Federation$25,00010%
Brac USA Inc$25,00010%
Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc$20,00010%
Mid-Hudson Energy Transition Inc$20,0001n/a
Sex Workers Outreach Project$20,00024%
International Civil Society Action Network Inc$20,00020%
World Central Kitchen Inc$15,0001n/a
The Help Inc Fund$15,0001n/a
Lola Childrens Fund Inc$12,0282n/a
Church Army USA Inc$10,00011%
Mockingbird Ministries Inc$9,12511%
Reformed Evangelistic Fellowship Inc$7,03810%
Friends of Jack Foundation Inc$5,00012%
World Animal Protection$5,00010%
Providence Animal Rescue League Inc$2,04910%
Womens Fund Southcoast Inc$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lofberg Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends Academy Inc: $274,205 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetBerkeley Divinity School: $155,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAlma del Mar Foundation Inc: $130,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetJerusalem Peacebuilders Inc: $110,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetOne Simple Wish Inc: $95,991 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetDivine Mercy Care: $70,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $61,865 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHarlem Children's Zone Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLove146 Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNew Bedford Light: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCovenant House: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMiddlesex School: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHope & Main: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSylvia Rivera Law Project Inc: $26,153 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetRuff House Rescue Inc: $25,671 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNational Abortion Federation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBrac USA Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMassachusetts Wonderfund Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSex Workers Outreach Project: $20,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetInternational Civil Society Action Network Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetChurch Army USA Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMockingbird Ministries Inc: $9,125 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetReformed Evangelistic Fellowship Inc: $7,038 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Jack Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWorld Animal Protection: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProvidence Animal Rescue League Inc: $2,049 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

The Braitmayer FoundationMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Braitmayer Foundation · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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About Lofberg Family Foundation

How much does Lofberg Family Foundation give?
Lofberg Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $525,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Lofberg Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (29%), Religion (12%), Crime & Legal (12%).
Who are Lofberg Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends Academy Inc ($274k), F O C U S Inc ($250k), Berkeley Divinity School ($155k).
Does Lofberg Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lofberg Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lofberg Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Braitmayer Foundation, The Carney Family Charitable Foundation, Southcoast Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Lofberg Family Foundation based?
Lofberg Family Foundation is based in MA.

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 51 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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