· Private foundation
Steve & Amy Louis 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Colorado College | $105,000 |
| Public Media Fund LLC | $100,000 |
| Valleywise Health Foundation | $50,000 |
| Adler Planetarium | $25,000 |
| Our House | $25,000 |
| Naples Botanical Garden | $5,000 |
| ABJS | $5,000 |
| Avery Coonley School | $5,000 |
| Lake Owen Association Inc | $5,000 |
| Chequamegon Children's Theater | $5,000 |
| Wildland Firefighter Foundation | $5,000 |
| Deerfield Academy | $2,000 |
| Wisconsin's Green Fire | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Eaglebrook School | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE COLORADO COLLEGE7× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +39%
- TATHE ADLER PLANETARIUM9× · 2017–2025 · $510k · revenue +8%
- LOLAKE OWEN ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $112k · revenue +91% · 34% of their budget
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TNThe Nature Conservancy Wisconsinone grant, 2023 · $5k
- PPPlanned Parenthood Fedone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE ADLER PLANETARIUM ↗
- Who funds LAKE OWEN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Avery Coonley School ↗
- Who funds VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc ↗
- Who funds WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds IBJI CARES INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN'S GREEN FIRE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds CABLE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds KING-BRUWAERT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE DRAGON KIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA 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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Steve & Amy Louis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steve & Amy Louis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc: 10% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc: 3% of income from government
- Our House Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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