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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 FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$1.4MHealth$880kHuman Services$765kPhilanthropy$425kInternational$230kCrime & Legal$100kReligion$76kPublic Benefit$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAYO CLINIC CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH CENTER$300,000
READING PARTNERS TWIN CITIES$125,000
FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$25,000
THE ROTARY CLUB OF LAKEVILLE FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–21, $500k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE RETREAT: $250k → 7%THE RETREAT: $250k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
UT
KY
AR
NC
TX
FL

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 — 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 11 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
20

Total granted

$2.6M
$891k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+70%

Still filing today

73%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyEducationInternationalHealthCivil RightsHuman 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

  • RI
    Retreat Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $500k · revenue +33%
  • FF
    FIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING
    4× · 2021–2024 · $355k · revenue +10%
  • TG
    THE GOD'S CHILD PROJECT
    3× · 2021–2023 · $205k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • CO
    Community of Recovering Peoplegraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +111%
  • TR
    THE RETREAT AND THE OUR NEXT STEP CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • CF
    CHARMED Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $100k

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.

1
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
2
Advocates for Family Peace

To improve lives by ending domestic violence.

Human Services
3
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
4
Donor Alliance Inc

Donor Alliance saves and heals lives through organ and tissue donation. Donor Alliance is one of 55 Federally designated, non-profit organ procurement organizations serving Colorado and most of Wyoming. Additionally, it is a member of the…

Health
5
Violence Free Minnesota

To represent victim/survivors of relationship abuse and member programs; challenge systems and institutions; promote social change; and support, educate, and connect member programs.

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6
Raising a Reader

Raising a Reader supports families and inspires the development of literacy skills and a lifelong love for reading. We help children attain brighter futures in which they can thrive and contribute in school, the workforce and society.

Education
7
CureCervicalCancer

Dedicated to the early detection and prevention of cervical cancer around the globe for the women who need it most.

International
8
Center for Conflict Resolution

Conflict resolution and violence prevention assistance to at-risk populations.

Health
9
Parent Aid - Child Abuse Prevention Center

Building confident, connected families through parent education and a nurturing community.

Crime & Legal
10
United States Association for Unhcr

USA for UNHCR protects and supports refugees by mobilizing resources, elevating awareness, and driving action through a network of engaged supporters.

International
11
MinnPost

MinnPost produces independent journalism to serve as a trusted guide for Minnesotans exploring the critical issues, challenges and opportunities facing our state.

Arts & Culture
12
Trivium Life Services

Behavioral health, long-term support services, mental health therapy, substance, alcohol and drug abuse treatment as well as domestic violence offender intervention services

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reading Partners and the most unlike its peers is Northside Boxing Club Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFallen First Responder Supp…Elementary Literacy TutoringIndependent K-8 SchoolsAnimal Rescue and AdoptionChristian Missionary Organi…Cancer Support OrganizationsCommunity Health CentersPublic University Foundatio…Rotary Club FoundationsLand Conservation Organizat…Domestic Violence Crisis Se…Youth Sports Booster Organi…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Substance Abuse Treatment
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 20 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%0%<5yr12%13%5–10yr20%37%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr16%17%35–55yr18%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%0%<5yr12%13%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%26%20–35yr16%36%35–55yr18%4%55yr+

The field is 17% 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/33
the rest of the field
10%
3,829/38,956

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.

04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LITERACY MATTERS FOUNDATION — $860,000 · OtherLITERACY MATTERS FOUNDATIONMAYO CLINIC CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH CENTER — $300,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH CENTERTHE RETREAT AND THE OUR NEXT STEP CAMPAIGN — $250,000 · OtherTHE RETREAT AND THE OUR NEXT STEP CAMPAIGNCHARMED Foundation Inc — $100,000 · OtherCHARMED Foundation IncIMAGINE WORLDWIDE — $75,000 · Other+11 more — $136,600 · Other+11 moreRetreat Inc — $500,000 · Human ServicesRetreat IncFIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING — $355,000 · PhilanthropyFIREFIGHTERS F…GABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyGABRIELLE'S AN…Social Impact Fund — $40,000 · PhilanthropySocial Impact …NORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCENTER FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT INC — $20,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $9,960 · PhilanthropyCommunity of Recovering People — $250,000 · HealthCommunity of…Horses for Mental Health — $120,000 · HealthHorses for M…MAYO CLINIC — $50,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICREADING PARTNERS — $225,000 · EducationREADING PART…Morning Glory Montessori — $90,000 · EducationMorning Glor…Hope Academy of Charlotte Inc — $50,000 · EducationHope Academy…UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…GROVES ACADEMY — $22,500 · EducationGROVES ACADE…+1 more — $5,000 · EducationTHE GOD'S CHILD PROJECT — $205,000 · International+1 more — $5,000 · InternationalCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY — $100,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,721,600Human Services$500,000Philanthropy$494,960Health$420,000Education$417,500International$210,000Civil Rights$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLITERACY MATTERS FOUNDATION — $860,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetRetreat Inc — $500,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetFIREFIGHTERS FOR HEALING — $355,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetCommunity of Recovering People — $250,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $225,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GOD'S CHILD PROJECT — $205,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetHorses for Mental Health — $120,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY — $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMorning Glory Montessori — $90,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetIMAGINE WORLDWIDE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope Academy of Charlotte Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSocial Impact Fund — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED THROUGH READING — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROVES ACADEMY — $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSIDE BOXING CLUB INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetHEALING HAITI — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF LAKEVILLE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTMIT GLOBAL CORP — $5,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetALPHA PHI FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHOROUGHBRED CHARITIES OF AMERICA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN BANDY ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLake Minnetonka Association — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF BENTON COUNTY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Minneapolis Found…Saint Paul & Minnesot…American Gift FundUnited Way WorldwideThe Ayco Charitable F…Mightycause Charitabl…Thrivent Charitable I…The US Charitable Gif…Thrivent Financial fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Baird Foundation Inc
The Minneapolis FoundationMN20.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 organization Lothenbach 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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