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Luverne Area Community Foundation
LUVERNE AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is a publicly supported community foundation that attracts, manages, and distributes charitable contributions and grants to its primary service area, rock county, minnesota, which has a population of approximately 10,000.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,582
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $527,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.0M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 14% of the organizations Luverne Area Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $307k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 14 | $1.1M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $1.0M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $830k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $683k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $234k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $445k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $414k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanford | $1,133,255 | 7 | n/a |
| Kids Rock Child Care Center Inc | $527,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Generations Inc | $488,624 | 4 | 46% |
| Rock County Historical Society | $479,084 | 6 | 83% |
| Luverne School Foundation | $421,450 | 7 | n/a |
| Rock County Food Shelf Inc | $396,076 | 6 | n/a |
| Catholic Foundation | $294,453 | 1 | n/a |
| Luv1luvall | $182,288 | 3 | n/a |
| Sanford | $171,493 | 2 | n/a |
| Southwestern Mental Health Center Inc | $144,314 | 3 | 2% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanford | $1,133,255 | 7 | n/a |
| Kids Rock Child Care Center Inc | $527,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Generations Inc | $488,624 | 4 | 46% |
| Rock County Historical Society | $479,084 | 6 | 83% |
| Luverne School Foundation | $421,450 | 7 | n/a |
| Rock County Food Shelf Inc | $396,076 | 6 | n/a |
| Catholic Foundation | $294,453 | 1 | n/a |
| Luv1luvall | $182,288 | 3 | n/a |
| Sanford | $171,493 | 2 | n/a |
| Southwestern Mental Health Center Inc | $144,314 | 3 | 2% |
| Just for Nuts Inc | $90,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Luverne Backpack Program | $85,694 | 4 | n/a |
| Crow Wing County Child Protection | $70,143 | 6 | n/a |
| Rock County Agricultural Society | $55,500 | 4 | 41% |
| First Presbyterian Church | $48,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Blue Mounds Area Theater | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bible Study Fellowship | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rock County Opportunities Inc | $20,332 | 3 | 1% |
| Rock Ranch | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Heritage Lutheran Church | $18,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Luverne Initiatives for Tomorrow | $12,491 | 1 | n/a |
| Game Plan 4 Hope | $8,946 | 1 | 4% |
| The Banquet | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Luverne Methodist Church | $6,081 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Beaver Creek | $5,034 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($19k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Luverne Area Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 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.
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How this is measured
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About Luverne Area Community Foundation
- How much does Luverne Area Community Foundation give?
- Luverne Area Community Foundation reported 17 itemized grants totaling $1,301,771, out of $1,814,249 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Luverne Area Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Human Services (21%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
- Who are Luverne Area Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sanford ($1.1M), Kids Rock Child Care Center Inc ($527k), Generations Inc ($489k).
- Does Luverne Area Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Luverne Area Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Luverne Area Community Foundation based?
- Luverne Area Community Foundation is based in MN.
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