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Lunda Charitable Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2024
24
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,200
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,000,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$72M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Lunda Charitable Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterReligionHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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
FY2024still arriving25$1.2M32%
FY202324$1.5M17%
FY202223$1.1M43%
FY202115$239k33%
FY202020$253k25%
FY201913$17M31%
FY201822$3.3M45%
FY201721$3.1Mn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$21MPhilanthropy$4.8MEducation$703kRecreation & Sports$469kYouth Development$361kPublic Safety & Disaster$119kAnimals$101kFood & Nutrition$91kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lunda Community Center Inc$20,108,448580%
Chicago Community Foundation$4,800,0003n/a
Jackson County Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Inc$827,000350%
Karner Blue Garden Club Inc$76,3248n/a
Hatfield Fire & Rescue Inc$30,000213%
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc$22,50050%
Bolton Refuge House Inc$20,30031%
Interfaith Caregivers Inc$13,32032%
Jackson County Emergency Medical Association$12,4801n/a
Jackson County Hce$10,0505n/a
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All grantees of Lunda Charitable Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lunda Community Center Inc$20,108,448580%
Chicago Community Foundation$4,800,0003n/a
Jackson County Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Inc$827,000350%
Karner Blue Garden Club Inc$76,3248n/a
Hatfield Fire & Rescue Inc$30,000213%
University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc$22,50050%
Bolton Refuge House Inc$20,30031%
Interfaith Caregivers Inc$13,32032%
Jackson County Emergency Medical Association$12,4801n/a
Jackson County Hce$10,0505n/a
Friends Sharing Food Inc$10,00042%
Aptiv Inc$10,00010%
Black River Area Childcare Services Inc$8,00021%
Black River Health Inc$5,50020%
Jackson County Historical Society$5,1422n/a
Family Promise of the Great Rivers Inc$5,00012%
York-Northfield Sportsmans Club Incorporated$5,0001n/a
Melrose First Responders Inc$3,5832n/a
Wazee Riders Horse Club$2,8791n/a
Black River Area Community Band Inc$2,5002n/a
Jackson County Farmers Market Inc$2,5001n/a
Black River Youth Swimming Inc$2,0001n/a
Black River Falls Athletic Boosters Inc$1,5003n/a
Jackson County Crime Stoppers Inc$1,2701n/a
Riverbend Party Animals Incorporated$9001n/a
Black River Falls Figure Skating Club Inc$90030%
Rotary Club of Black River Falls$7002n/a

Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Lunda Charitable Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLunda Community Center Inc: $20,108,448 over 5y, 80% of budgetJackson County Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Inc: $827,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetHatfield Fire & Rescue Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin - Eau Claire Foundation Inc: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBolton Refuge House Inc: $20,300 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetInterfaith Caregivers Inc: $13,320 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFriends Sharing Food Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetAptiv Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlack River Area Childcare Services Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBlack River Health Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise of the Great Rivers Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBlack River Falls Figure Skating Club Inc: $900 over 3y, 0.5% of budget

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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 12.

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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.

Black River Falls Area FoundationWI26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Black River Falls Area Foundation · Green Bay Packers 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.

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About Lunda Charitable Fund Inc

How much does Lunda Charitable Fund Inc give?
Lunda Charitable Fund Inc reported 25 grants totaling $1,226,476 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Lunda Charitable Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (75%), Philanthropy (17%), Education (3%).
Who are Lunda Charitable Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lunda Community Center Inc ($20M), Chicago Community Foundation ($4.8M), Jackson County Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Inc ($827k).
Does Lunda Charitable Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lunda Charitable Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lunda Charitable Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Black River Falls Area Foundation, Green Bay Packers Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Lunda Charitable Fund Inc based?
Lunda Charitable Fund Inc is based in WI.

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 68 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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