How much does Lre Foundation give?

Lre Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $1,235,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Lre Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Health (25%), Human Services (16%).

Who are Lre Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hope Academy Inc ($770k), Way to Grow ($756k), Lung Cancer Research Foundation ($710k).

Does Lre Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Lre 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 Lre Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.

Foundation Dossiers

Minnesota · Private foundation

Lre Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 25
Grants FY2025: 24
Organizations funded FY2024: 4%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $30,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $160,000
Organizations funded a year: 16 to 31; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $17M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Lre Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	25	$1.2M	8%
FY2024	24	$1.1M	4%
FY2023	25	$1.0M	8%
FY2022	27	$1.0M	15%
FY2021	31	$895k	42%
FY2020	20	$575k	10%
FY2019	16	$400k	13%
FY2018	28	$632k	36%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.1MHealth$1.9MHuman Services$1.2MYouth Development$800kInternational$210kCrime & Legal$125kFood & Nutrition$97kArts & Culture$50kOther$0

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
Hope Academy Inc	$770,000	9	1%
Way to Grow	$755,700	9	3%
Lung Cancer Research Foundation	$710,000	9	2%
Achieve Twin Cities	$490,000	7	2%
Great Mn Schools	$385,000	7	3%
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School	$335,000	9	n/a
Park Nicollet Foundation	$290,000	7	1%
Treehouse Inc	$225,000	9	2%
Samaritan's Purse	$210,000	7	0%
Children's Health Care Foundation	$210,000	4	0%

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All grantees of Lre Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Hope Academy Inc	$770,000	9	1%
Way to Grow	$755,700	9	3%
Lung Cancer Research Foundation	$710,000	9	2%
Achieve Twin Cities	$490,000	7	2%
Great Mn Schools	$385,000	7	3%
Cristo Rey Jesuit High School	$335,000	9	n/a
Park Nicollet Foundation	$290,000	7	1%
Treehouse Inc	$225,000	9	2%
Samaritan's Purse	$210,000	7	0%
Children's Health Care Foundation	$210,000	4	0%
The Banyan Foundation	$140,000	5	3%
Emerge Mothers Academy	$135,000	9	7%
Northside Achievement Zone	$125,000	5	0%
University of Minnesota Foundation	$110,000	2	0%
Black Men Teach	$105,000	4	1%
Children's Cancer Research Fund	$60,000	6	0%
Minnehaha Academy	$58,000	2	0%
Summit Academy Oic	$55,000	3	0%
The Wallin Foundation	$40,000	1	5%
Close Gaps by 5	$35,000	2	2%
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery	$25,000	2	1%
Tntp Inc	$25,000	1	0%
YouthCARE	$25,000	1	3%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$25,000	2	0%
St David's Center	$25,000	2	0%
Young Life	$20,000	2	0%
Washburn Center for Children	$10,000	1	0%
Twin Cities Rise	$10,000	1	0%
DePauw University	$5,000	1	0%
Joyce Preschool	$5,000	1	1%
Every Meal	$5,000	1	n/a
Whittier Wildflowers Preschool Inc	$5,000	1	5%
Bethel University	$5,000	1	0%
Metro Meals on Wheels Inc	$4,000	1	0%
Union Gospel Mission Inc	$4,000	1	0%
Open Arms of Minnesota	$4,000	1	0%
Sharing and Caring Hands Inc	$4,000	1	0%
City Church	$2,500	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lre Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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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.

The Minneapolis FoundationMN27.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Wem Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · General Mills Foundation · Frey Foundation · Julie & Doug Baker Jr Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Lre Foundation

How much does Lre Foundation give?: Lre Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $1,235,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Lre Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Health (25%), Human Services (16%).
Who are Lre Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hope Academy Inc ($770k), Way to Grow ($756k), Lung Cancer Research Foundation ($710k).
Does Lre Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lre 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 Lre Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
Where is Lre Foundation based?: Lre Foundation is based in MN.