Minnesota · Private foundation
Lord Educational Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $188k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Lord Educational Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $188k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $174k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $99k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $128k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $147k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $183k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $192k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $193k | 22% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millikin University | $122,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $76,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Southern Illinois University Alumni Association | $58,500 | 5 | 1% |
| St Louis University | $28,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mississippi State University | $27,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Stephens College | $27,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Maryville University - St Louis | $24,500 | 5 | 0% |
| McKendree University | $23,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lindenwood Education System | $21,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Culver-Stockton College | $21,000 | 4 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millikin University | $122,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | $76,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Southern Illinois University Alumni Association | $58,500 | 5 | 1% |
| St Louis University | $28,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mississippi State University | $27,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Stephens College | $27,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Maryville University - St Louis | $24,500 | 5 | 0% |
| McKendree University | $23,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lindenwood Education System | $21,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Culver-Stockton College | $21,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Macmurray College | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Illinois College | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kansas State University | $13,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Shenandoah University | $11,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| St Ambrose University | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Blackburn University | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Judson University a Baptist Institution | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bradley University | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Elmhurst University | $9,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Indiana University School of Medicine | $9,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Florida State University | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Loyola University of Chicago | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St Louis | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Depaul University | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ranken Technical College | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($905k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lord Educational Fund supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: John R Lucash Scholarship Trust · Ibm International Foundation · William Edgar Charitable Foundation · Tammy Stratman Brown Charities · United Way Worldwide · Louis and Temple Marsch Charitable Trust · Swope Memorial Loan Fund · George & Hazel Barber Scholarship Trust · Pittsfield High School Class of 1954 Scholarship Fund Inc · Associated Colleges of Illinois Inc · Monticello College Foundation · Marquette Bank Education Foundation
How this is measured
About Lord Educational Fund
- How much does Lord Educational Fund give?
- Lord Educational Fund reported 23 grants totaling $188,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lord Educational Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (98%), Health (0%).
- Who are Lord Educational Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Millikin University ($123k), The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois ($76k), Southern Illinois University Alumni Association ($59k).
- Does Lord Educational Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lord Educational Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lord Educational Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John R Lucash Scholarship Trust, Ibm International Foundation, William Edgar Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Lord Educational Fund based?
- Lord Educational Fund is based in MN.
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