Minnesota · Private foundation
Lothenbach 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.
- $555k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 8
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Lothenbach Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $326k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 5 | $555k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $576k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $515k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $491k | 83% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $501k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $565k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $482k | 83% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $89k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literacy Matters Foundation | $860,000 | 3 | 20% |
| Retreat Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Firefighters for Healing | $355,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Community of Recovering People | $250,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Reading Partners | $225,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The God's Child Project | $205,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Horses for Mental Health | $120,000 | 2 | 41% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocate of Orange County | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| CHARMED Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Morning Glory Montessori | $90,000 | 2 | 45% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($562k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lothenbach Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Minneapolis Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · American Gift Fund · United Way Worldwide · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Baird Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Lothenbach Family Foundation
- How much does Lothenbach Family Foundation give?
- Lothenbach Family Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $555,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lothenbach Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (35%), Health (23%), Human Services (20%).
- Who are Lothenbach Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Literacy Matters Foundation ($860k), Retreat Inc ($500k), Firefighters for Healing ($355k).
- Does Lothenbach Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lothenbach 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 Lothenbach Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, American Gift Fund.
- Where is Lothenbach Family Foundation based?
- Lothenbach Family Foundation is based in MN.
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