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The Donald D and Lynn P Larson 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.

$166k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
42%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$750
Largest grant, FY2025
$72,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 12
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
11
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 42% of the organizations The Donald D and Lynn P Larson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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
FY2025still arriving21$166k57%
FY202412$183k42%
FY20239$97k44%
FY202212$48k75%
FY20215$51k0%
FY20209$83k78%
FY20193$24kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$296kEducation$230kHousing & Shelter$41kPhilanthropy$31kRecreation & Sports$23kEnvironment$10kHealth$9kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
IL
NY
WY
OH
CA
UT
CO
MD
SC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($32k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Donald D and Lynn P Larson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGrand Teton Music Festival Inc: $267,800 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMiami University Foundation: $207,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCornerstone Renter Equity Inc: $41,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetGrand Teton National Park Foundation: $31,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFc Cincinnati Foundation: $19,750 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWyoming School Foundation: $13,150 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYellowstone Forever: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe James Beard Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Childrens Hospital: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,608 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Parks Foundation: $2,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCincinnati Golden Gloves for Youth: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetShoutmousepressinc: $1,545 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMote Marine Laboratory Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cure Starts Now Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Yellowstone Coalition: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Playhouse in the Park: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Miracle Network: $375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $281 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaris Place: $261 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRide Cincinnati Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse Youth Services: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Chicago Food Depository: $85 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $75 over 1y, 0.0% 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 29.

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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.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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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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.

About The Donald D and Lynn P Larson Family Foundation

How much does The Donald D and Lynn P Larson Family Foundation give?
The Donald D and Lynn P Larson Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $166,252 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Donald D and Lynn P Larson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Education (35%), Housing & Shelter (6%).
Who are The Donald D and Lynn P Larson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Grand Teton Music Festival Inc ($268k), Miami University Foundation ($207k), Cornerstone Renter Equity Inc ($41k).
Does The Donald D and Lynn P Larson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Donald D and Lynn P Larson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Donald D and Lynn P Larson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation, Duke Energy Foundation.
Where is The Donald D and Lynn P Larson Family Foundation based?
The Donald D and Lynn P Larson Family Foundation is based in OH.

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 40 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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