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Lukis 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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$5.5MPhilanthropy$1.2MHealth$850kYouth Development$645kEnvironment$329kHuman Services$320kFood & Nutrition$215kInternational$130kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $900k
  • $250k+2 grants · $800k
$50,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$500,000
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION$300,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
OCEAN DISCOVERY LEAGUE$100,000
TEAM SCHLADT FOUNDATION$100,000
PBS MINNESOTA (CULTURE QUEST)$100,000
ROBONATION$100,000
AMERICAN MIGRAINE FOUNDATION$100,000
PUT ME IN INC$50,000
LAKE SUPERIOR TALL SHIPS$50,000
GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE$50,000
THE BLAKE SCHOOL$50,000
MINNESOTA WALDORF SCHOOL$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
MAINE COAST WALDORF SCHOOL$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SALUTE INC: $500 → 14%MN NETWORK OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $25k → 14%MN NETWORK OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $25k → 14%MN NETWORK OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $25k → 14%MN NETWORK OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $25k → 14%MN NETWORK OF HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 23 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
15

Total granted

$7.7M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+11%

Still filing today

65%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $261k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GA
    GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +2%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +37%
  • MW
    MINNESOTA WALDORF SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $550k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $1.3M
  • SS
    SUSTAINABLE SEAS TECHNOLOGY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $229k
  • TC
    TRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
3
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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4
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
6
Great Mn Schools

We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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9
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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10
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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11
Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce

Creating powerful advocacy to enhance economic vitality in the minneapolis-st. paul region.

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12
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ocean Discovery League Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
22/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $1,800,000 · EducationGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATIONMINNESOTA WALDORF SCHOOL: $550,000 · EducationMINNESOTA WALDORF SCHOOLUniversity of Maine Foundation: $500,000 · EducationUniversity of Maine FoundationROBONATION INC: $400,000 · EducationROBONATION INCUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $250,000 · EducationTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $200,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $1,250,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $400,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAINE COAST WALDORF SCHOOL: $395,000 · OtherMAINE COAST WALDORF SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSUSTAINABLE SEAS TECHNOLOGY INC: $229,094 · OtherSUSTAINABLE SEAS TECHNOLOGY INCTRIVENT CHARITABLE IMPACT: $200,000 · OtherARTHRITIS FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $175,000 · OtherOcean Discovery League Inc: $200,000 · Other+17 more: $782,154 · Other+17 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…Maine Community Foundation Inc: $275,000 · PhilanthropyMaine Com…THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MINNE…MAYO CLINIC: $350,000 · HealthAMERICAN MIGRAINE FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $150,000 · HealthTEAM SCHLADT FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthPUT ME IN INC: $695,000 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSE: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $150,000 · Human ServicesMINNESOTA NETWORK OF HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $125,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $100,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 · InternationalLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $50,000 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · International
Education$4,900,000Other$4,031,248Philanthropy$975,000Health$825,000Youth Development$770,000Human Services$275,500International$230,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE: $1,800,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPUT ME IN INC: $695,000 over 5y, 61% of budgetMINNESOTA WALDORF SCHOOL: $550,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation: $500,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROBONATION INC: $400,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $350,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Community Foundation Inc: $275,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN MIGRAINE FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetOcean Discovery League Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND: $175,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $150,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $150,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA NETWORK OF HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE: $125,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM SCHLADT FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetLAKE EFFECT CONSERVANCY: $100,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetLAKE SUPERIOR TALL SHIPS: $81,154 over 2y, 33% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlive & Kickin: $25,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSALUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PUT ME IN INC ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
  • Who funds ROBONATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds University at Buffalo Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN MIGRAINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Ocean Discovery League Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA NETWORK OF HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds TEAM SCHLADT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LAKE EFFECT CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds LAKE SUPERIOR TALL SHIPS ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗

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 Found…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Minneapolis FoundationMN12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lukis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lukis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lukis Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lukis Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 49 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home