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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.

$135k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$90k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$1.1MPhilanthropy$70kHuman Services$21kArts & Culture$13k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
$90,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The S Lundstrom Donor Advised Fund Vanguard Charitable$90,000
Craig Lundstrom Donor Advised Fund Vanguard Charitable$45,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%Paws with a Cause: $4k → 10%THE PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%Paws with a Cause: $4k → 10%Pets for the Elderly Foundation: $3k → 11%Paws with a Cause: $4k → 10%Pets for the Elderly Foundation: $3k → 11%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $3k → 10%Paws with a Cause: $3k → 10%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $3k → 10%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

AK
IL
WI
MI
RI
UT
CO
AZ
TX
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 31 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
4

Total granted

$1.1M
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+19%

Still filing today

68%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN
    7× · 2017–2023 · $41k · revenue +66%
  • EB
    EVA BURRELL ANIMAL SHELTER
    5× · 2019–2023 · $39k · revenue +398%
  • CH
    CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $38k · revenue +302%

Funded once

  • DR
    DAUNTLESS RESCUE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +19%
  • MA
    METROPLEX ANIMAL COALITION
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • TA
    The August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogsgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +25%
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
Raskels Rescue
Animals
2
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
3
Humane Society of Southwest Missouri

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…

Animals
4
Humane Society & Animal Rescue of Muskegon County

To shelter and find forever homes for homeless dogs and cats.

Animals
5
The Animal Haven Inc

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.

Animals
6
Fur Animal Rescue

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.

Animals
7
Donna's Love Pet Rescue
Animals
8
The Adoptable Dog
Animals
9
Happy Acres Pet Rescue
Animals
10
Mountain View Animal Rescue

Rescue of abused or abandoned animals

Animals
11
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
12
Humane Society of Southwestern Michigan

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.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Verde Valley Humane Society Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 36 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
22/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The S Lundstrom Donor Advised Fund Vanguard Charitable: $369,000 · OtherThe S Lundstrom Donor Advised Fund Vanguard CharitableCraig Lundstrom Donor Advised Fund Vanguard Charitable: $232,100 · OtherCraig Lundstrom Donor Advised Fund Vanguard Charitable+9 more: $104,900 · Other+9 moreHUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN: $41,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGANEVA BURRELL ANIMAL SHELTER: $39,000 · AnimalsEVA BURRELL ANIMAL SHELTERCHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY: $38,000 · AnimalsCHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETYHUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA INC: $27,500 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA INCCHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $23,000 · AnimalsCHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETYMCCLOUDS LAKE HAVEN: $21,000 · AnimalsMCCLOUDS LAKE HAVENDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $21,000 · AnimalsDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUEVERDE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $19,000 · AnimalsHELP FROM MY FRIENDS INC: $18,000 · AnimalsFriends of Foothills Animal Shelter: $16,500 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC: $16,500 · AnimalsEASTSHORE HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · AnimalsMACKENZIE'S ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $13,000 · AnimalsCAT CARE SOCIETY: $12,000 · Animals+6 more: $37,500 · Animals+6 moreVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $70,000 · PhilanthropyPaws With A Cause: $20,500 · Human ServicesPETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Human ServicesFORT MICHILIMACKINAC PAGEANT INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $600 · Arts & Culture
Other$706,000Animals$358,000Philanthropy$70,000Human Services$32,500Arts & Culture$12,600

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF WEST MICHIGAN: $41,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetEVA BURRELL ANIMAL SHELTER: $39,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetCHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY: $38,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SEDONA INC: $27,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCHAMPAIGN COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $23,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMCCLOUDS LAKE HAVEN: $21,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPaws With A Cause: $20,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVERDE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $19,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHELP FROM MY FRIENDS INC: $18,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetFriends of Foothills Animal Shelter: $16,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF BOULDER VALLEY INC: $16,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEASTSHORE HUMANE ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetMACKENZIE'S ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $13,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFORT MICHILIMACKINAC PAGEANT INC: $12,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetCAT CARE SOCIETY: $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetYAVAPAI HUMANE SOCIETY: $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIFELINE PET RESCUE: $7,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGOLDEN RETRIEVER RESCUE OF THE ROCKIES: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe August Foundation for Alaska Racing Dogs: $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $600 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 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 FORT MICHILIMACKINAC PAGEANT INC ↗
  • Who funds CAT CARE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Pedigree FoundationThe Duffield Family F…Petsmart Charities IncBISSELL Pet FoundationArizona Community Fou…Colorado Gives Founda…Network for GoodEdward Jones Foundati…Paypal Charitable Giv…Baird Foundation IncVanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Pedigree FoundationTN17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lundstrom Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lundstrom Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Lundstrom Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lundstrom Family 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 36 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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