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Lundstrom Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The S Lundstrom Donor Advised Fund Vanguard Charitable | $90,000 |
| Craig Lundstrom Donor Advised Fund Vanguard Charitable | $45,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN7× · 2017–2023 · $41k · revenue +66%
- EBEVA BURRELL ANIMAL SHELTER5× · 2019–2023 · $39k · revenue +398%
- CHCHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY7× · 2017–2023 · $38k · revenue +302%
Funded once
- DRDAUNTLESS RESCUE INCone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +19%
- MAMETROPLEX ANIMAL COALITIONone grant, 2017 · $4k
- TAThe August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogsgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +25%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…
To shelter and find forever homes for homeless dogs and cats.
The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
Rescue of abused or abandoned animals
Animal Rescue
Humane society of southwestern michigan exists to provide shelter and care for sick, homeless and unwanted animals. in addition, the organization provides adoption services for the animals in its care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Verde Valley Humane Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fort Michilimackinac Pageant Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds EVA BURRELL ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MCCLOUDS LAKE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds VERDE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HELP FROM MY FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Foothills Animal Shelter ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds EASTSHORE HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MACKENZIE'S ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAT CARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FORT MICHILIMACKINAC PAGEANT INC ↗
- Who funds YAVAPAI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LIFELINE PET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds DAUNTLESS RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Pedigree Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petsmart Charities Inc · BISSELL Pet Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Network for Good · Edward Jones Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lundstrom Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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