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Lohse Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$400k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$275,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$275,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$3.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Lohse Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2024still arriving2$400k0%
FY20232$400k0%
FY20226$378k50%
FY202110$445k20%
FY202010$444k0%
FY201913$465k15%
FY201823$705k57%
FY201725$384kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.8MHousing & Shelter$300kRecreation & Sports$156kHealth$124kReligion$115kPublic Benefit$71kArts & Culture$9kAnimals$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
IA
CA
CO
MO
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($533k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetState University of Iowa Foundation: $2,125,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDrake University: $375,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Northwestern - St Paul: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBondurant-Farrar Education Foundation: $75,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSt Baldrick's Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChris Norton Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetChildren's Cancer Connection: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Iowa Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Battleship Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIowa Donor Network: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPolk County 4-H & FFA Fair Associat ion: $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBoy Scouts of America 330 Daniel Webster Council Inc: $1,258 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPuppy Jake Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Foundation of Des Moines Iowa: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAwana Clubs International and Affiliates: $815 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBondurant Soccer Club: $729 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEngineering Ministries International USA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFollow Hard Ministries: $480 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSheltered Reality Inc: $450 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIowa 4-H Foundation: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBondurant Community Foundation: $230 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Greater Iowa: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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 24.

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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.

Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino IncIA35.8× affinity15 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 Inc · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · The West Bancorporation Foundation Inc · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · William C Knapp Charitable Fdn · Ita Group Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Hills Bank Donor Advised Gift Fund · United Way Worldwide

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 Lohse Family Foundation

How much does Lohse Family Foundation give?
Lohse Family Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $400,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Lohse Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (78%), Housing & Shelter (8%), Recreation & Sports (4%).
Who are Lohse Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: State University of Iowa Foundation ($2.1M), Drake University ($375k), University of Northwestern - St Paul ($250k).
Does Lohse Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lohse 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 Lohse Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, Alliant Energy Foundation Inc.
Where is Lohse Family Foundation based?
Lohse Family Foundation is based in IA.

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 46 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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