Wisconsin · Private foundation
Lumw 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.
- $4.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 70
- Grants FY2025
- 72
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 72
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Lumw 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; $172k 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 | 69 | $4.3M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 72 | $3.3M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $3.6M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 64 | $2.9M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $3.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph Catholic Academy | $2,024,680 | 4 | n/a |
| Lake Forest Open Lands Association | $1,034,282 | 3 | 12% |
| Boulder Junction Community Foundation Inc | $324,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Manitowish Waters Bike Trail Inc | $296,117 | 4 | 82% |
| Big Shoulders Fund | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation Inc | $160,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Ice Age Trail Alliance Inc | $110,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Friends of Lake Forest Parks & Rec Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 7% |
| North Lakeland Discovery Center Inc | $97,158 | 4 | 2% |
| Seno Krlt Conservancy Inc | $83,355 | 4 | 8% |
Show all 75 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lumw Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 71 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Pukall Lumber Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Butler Family Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Duane and Kathleen Foulkes Foundation Inc · Red Bird Hollow Foundation · Sunshine Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lumw Foundation
- How much does Lumw Foundation give?
- Lumw Foundation reported 70 grants totaling $4,253,876 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 72 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lumw Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Education (11%), Public Benefit (3%).
- Who are Lumw Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: St Joseph Catholic Academy ($2.0M), Lake Forest Open Lands Association ($1.0M), Boulder Junction Community Foundation Inc ($325k).
- Does Lumw Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lumw 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 Lumw Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Incrediblebank Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Lumw Foundation based?
- Lumw Foundation is based in WI.
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