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Luhtanen-Howes Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$8k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
5
Organizations funded FY2023
60%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$2,100
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
6
Total assets, FY2023
$200k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Luhtanen-Howes Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Human ServicesOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20235$6k60%
FY20225$14k40%
FY20217$15kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2023.

Human Services$22kInternational$3kEducation$3kAnimals$3kCommunity Improvement$3kHealth$3kHousing & Shelter$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($16k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Luhtanen-Howes Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Luhtanen-Howes Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Luhtanen-Howes Charitable Foundation Inc reported 6 grants totaling $7,600 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Luhtanen-Howes Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (59%), International (8%), Education (8%).
Who are Luhtanen-Howes Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2023: Child Safe Michigan ($10k), Bike Walk Greenville ($3k), Turn Away No Longer Inc ($2k).
Does Luhtanen-Howes Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Luhtanen-Howes Charitable Foundation Inc 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 Luhtanen-Howes Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Luhtanen-Howes Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Luhtanen-Howes Charitable Foundation Inc is based in MI.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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