· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPRINGVILLE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH | $5,000 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN VOICES | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,550 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,550 |
| HENNEPIN THEATER | $2,500 |
| RED CROSS | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,500 |
| ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,000 |
| ASL ASSOCIATION | $1,265 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $525 |
| COMO PARK | $300 |
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 (FY18–25, $975) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +50% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
102 repeat relationships: 66 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 5 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SMSpringville Museum of Art3× · 2018–2020 · $15k · revenue +338%
- OCORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +81%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2018–2025 · $3k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- MCMercy Corpsone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +22%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +138%
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.
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…
2025 was a turbulent year for the medical and health research community, but our commitment to advocating for science never wavered. from pushing back against funding threats to elevating researchers' voices and equipping advocates, we…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.
How this is measured
59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 123 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 NORTHERN VOICES ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS MN MINNESOTANORTH DAKOTASOUTH DAKOTA ↗
- Who funds Springville Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds ORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Lake Street Council ↗
- Who funds MINNEAPOLIS SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS DBA MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds The Banyan Foundation ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ART ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lamm Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lamm Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
- Autism Society of America Inc: 8% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc: 4% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Avow Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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