How much did LOHSE FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Education$2.0MRecreation & Sports$107kHealth$51kPhilanthropy$51kYouth Development$9kArts & Culture$5kHuman Services$1kReligion$1kScience & Tech$500Other$1.4M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

chichaqua valleybondurantchurch

2019

bondurantchurch

2020

bondurant

2021

bondurant

2022

—

2023

—

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$50k–250k1 grant · $125k
$250k+1 grant · $275k

$275,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT$275,000
YOUTH SHELTER SERVICES$125,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.3M · 23 repeat orgs$309k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.3M

$309k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%

+11%

Still filing today

52%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentReligionHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

SU
STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA FOUNDATION
4× · 2018–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +8%
DRAKE UNIVERSITY
5× · 2018–2022 · $375k · revenue +14%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL
5× · 2017–2021 · $250k · revenue +24%

Funded once

FC
FEDERATED CHURCH OF BONDURANT
one grant, 2017 · $109k
IS
IOWA STATE FAIR FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $55k · revenue +76%
SB
ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -35%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Iowa State University Foundation

Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land-grant ideals.

Education

Upper Iowa University

Upper iowa university provides quality educational opportunities accessible through varied delivery methods to inspire success and empower lives.

Education

Iowa West Foundation

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South Dakota State University Foundation

Uniting the dreams of our students, university, and donors to build a better sdsu.

Education

University of South Dakota Foundation

Provide private resources to benefit the university of south dakota.

Education

Iowa High School Athletic Association

Promote, develop, direct, protect & regulate amateur interscholastic athletics for ia schools.

Education

University of Dubuque

Post secondary and graduate level education

Education

Iowa Rugby Collective Foundation

Recreation & Sports

Iowa Insurance and Financial Services Education Foundation

Education

Iowa Pbs Foundation

The iowa pbs foundation exists to foster giving to iowa pbs.

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Central Iowa Hospital Corporation

Improving the health of the community through healing, caring and teaching.

Health

Iowa Automotive Heritage Foundation

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Iowa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Drake University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 5% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/32

the rest of the field

1,461/29,173

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/29

Grantees still filing

19/29

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$2,025,750Other$1,372,986Recreation & Sports$107,445Health$51,000Philanthropy$50,500Youth Development$9,258Arts & Culture$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Prairie Meadows Race Track and CasinoIA38.5× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Meredith Corporation Foundation · Golf Charitable Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · EMC Insurance Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Endowment Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation LOHSE FAMILY FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SCI CAN FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +69% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 460831711 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SCI CAN FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Lohse Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lohse Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LOHSE FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lohse Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

LOHSE FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

29 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lohse Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph