· Private foundation
Lorenz Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZION LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - WISCONSIN | $15,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| LANDMARK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| LEAD A CHILD SOCIETY | $12,500 |
| GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| LEAD A CHILD SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| REACH MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY - NEBRASKA | $10,000 |
| LEAD A CHILD SOCIETY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Lorenz Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -37% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LSLEADACHILD SOCIETY5× · 2020–2024 · $83k · revenue +9%
- TGTHE GARUNA FOUNDATION3× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +97%
Compassion International Incorporated2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- MLMETRO-EAST LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $30k
- AFAlliance for Children Everywhereone grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue -44%
- ILIMMANUEL LUTHERAN SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
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.
Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
Christian day school
Summit Classical Christian School is a PreK-12 school that exists to cultivate generations of joyful disciples of Christ by partnering with faithful Christian families to educate their children from a Biblical worldview using classical…
Concord Christian Academy is a life preparatory educational institution that works in harmony with families to promote the spiritual, intellectual, emotional, physical and creative growth of students, empowering them to live for the glory…
Regent University serves as a center of Christian thought and action to provide excellent education through a Biblical perspective and global context equipping Christian leaders to change the world.
To provide a comprehensive Christian Classical education to grades 1-12.
Teaching & equipping tomorrows christian leaders.
Sccs builds the city of god by forming servant leaders who love goodness, truth, and beauty.
To operate a christian school serving grades k-12
Teaching Bible Students
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 32 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds LEADACHILD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE GARUNA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds REACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Children Everywhere ↗
- Who funds GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ARCHBISHOP FRANCIS N BLANCHET SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Blue Ribbon Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHRIST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THESE NUMBERS HAVE FACES ↗
- Who funds The Fathers Ranch Ministries ↗
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: Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lorenz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lorenz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- George Fox University: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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