Minnesota · Private foundation
The Lamm 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.
- $44k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2025
- 72
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 72 to 88
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $770k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Lamm Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 71 | $44k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 72 | $31k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 78 | $45k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 77 | $53k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 88 | $32k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 83 | $30k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 83 | $32k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 84 | $35k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Voices | $45,625 | 8 | 1% |
| University of Utah | $42,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Mn Minnesotanorth Dakotasouth Dakota | $41,315 | 8 | 9% |
| Springville Museum of Art | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Ordway Center for the Performing Arts | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mercy Corps | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $2,900 | 8 | 0% |
| Maui Food Bank Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Lake Street Council | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts Dba Minneapolis Institute of Arts | $1,900 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($118k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lamm Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · The Graco Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Aetna Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · United Way Worldwide
How this is measured
About The Lamm Family Foundation
- How much does The Lamm Family Foundation give?
- The Lamm Family Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $43,560 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 72 and 88 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lamm Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Education (29%), Health (21%).
- Who are The Lamm Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Northern Voices ($46k), University of Utah ($43k), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Mn Minnesotanorth Dakotasouth Dakota ($41k).
- Does The Lamm Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lamm 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 Lamm Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation, Pohlad Family Foundation.
- Where is The Lamm Family Foundation based?
- The Lamm Family Foundation is based in MN.
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