Nebraska · Private foundation
Lothlorien Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $318k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,600
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $115,920
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 30
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Lothlorien Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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 | 22 | $318k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $665k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $384k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $181k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 24 | $149k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $227k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $257k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evangelical Alliance Mission | $527,665 | 7 | n/a |
| Project Medsend | $215,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Focus on the Family | $105,454 | 7 | n/a |
| Family Research Council | $47,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Nebraska Family Alliance Inc | $42,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Ligonier Ministries Inc | $41,480 | 7 | 0% |
| Cure International Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Discovery Institute | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $27,000 | 4 | 0% |
| unfoldingWord | $21,275 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evangelical Alliance Mission | $527,665 | 7 | n/a |
| Project Medsend | $215,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Focus on the Family | $105,454 | 7 | n/a |
| Family Research Council | $47,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Nebraska Family Alliance Inc | $42,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Ligonier Ministries Inc | $41,480 | 7 | 0% |
| Cure International Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Discovery Institute | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Alliance Defending Freedom | $27,000 | 4 | 0% |
| unfoldingWord | $21,275 | 6 | 0% |
| The Navigators | $19,600 | 7 | n/a |
| Assure Womens Center | $16,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Greater Europe Mission | $12,438 | 5 | 0% |
| Send International Inc | $11,568 | 7 | n/a |
| Christian Medical & Dental Associat | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Open Door Mission D/B/A Open Door Mission & Lydia House | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pioneers | $4,200 | 2 | n/a |
| The Shack | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
| InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nebraska Right to Life Educational Trust | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mission Aviation Fellowship | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Warren County Christian Academy | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| God's World Publications Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wycliffe Associates Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lothlorien Foundation 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: Servant Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Dallas Seminary Found Vision Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Lothlorien Foundation
- How much does Lothlorien Foundation give?
- Lothlorien Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $318,264 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 30 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Lothlorien Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (38%), Community Improvement (25%), Health (11%).
- Who are Lothlorien Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Evangelical Alliance Mission ($528k), Project Medsend ($215k), Focus on the Family ($105k).
- Does Lothlorien Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lothlorien Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lothlorien Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Dallas Seminary Found Vision Fund.
- Where is Lothlorien Foundation based?
- Lothlorien Foundation is based in NE.
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