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.

Lofberg Family Foundation

Lofberg Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$60k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% 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

02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k11 grants · $215k
$50k–250k6 grants · $310k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER	$60,000
ONE SIMPLE WISH	$50,000
JERUSALEM PEACE BUILDERS	$50,000
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER	$50,000
BERKELEY DIVINITY SCHOOL	$50,000
THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM	$50,000
COVENANT HOUSE	$35,000
FREED SEED FOUNDATION	$25,000
HOPE & MAIN	$25,000
THE NEW BEDFORD LIGHT	$20,000
MID-HUDSON ENERGY TRANSITION	$20,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC	$20,000
FRIENDS ACADEMY	$20,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC	$15,000
FOCUS	$12,500

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, $283k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.5M · 27 repeat orgs$380k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.5M

$310k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%

Still filing today

63%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsInternationalEducationHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

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BERKELEY DIVINITY SCHOOL
3× · 2023–2025 · $155k · revenue +8%
ALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION INC
3× · 2019–2021 · $130k · revenue +89%
ONE SIMPLE WISH INC
3× · 2021–2025 · $96k · revenue +64%

Funded once

SE
STPAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
one grant, 2022 · $89k
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2018 · $40k
FC
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST IN WETHERSFIELD
one grant, 2019 · $30k

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.

The Bridgespan Group Inc

Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.

Community Improvement

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Open Markets Institute

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.

Education

Us Digital Response

U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…

Public Safety & Disaster

United States Naval Institute

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.

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Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Womens Funding Network

Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.

Education

Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International

Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health

National Endowment for Democracy

Ned has a singular mission - advancing democracy in support of freedom around the world. our targeted, demand-driven small grants program responds to the needs of local ngos that defend human rights, strengthen independent media and civic…

Public Benefit

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Mercy for Animals Inc

Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fred M Seed Foundation. 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

34 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. 34 of the 51 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)

33/34

Grantees still filing

17/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,817,615Education$1,014,205Human Services$282,856International$150,000Arts & Culture$100,000Health$75,000Crime & Legal$66,153

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lofberg Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lofberg Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely 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

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home