Iowa · Private foundation
The Lampe Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $20k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $709k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Lampe Trust 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 | 2 | $20k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $23k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $33k | 57% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $31k | 89% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $53k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $53k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $11k | 100% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwood-Kensett Booster Club | $30,000 | 3 | 6% |
| St Anthony Foundation | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Worth County Conservation Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Kellans Kingdom | $10,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Manning Betterment Foundation | $8,500 | 1 | 2% |
| New Hope Foundation | $2,984 | 1 | 0% |
| New Hope Village | $1,100 | 1 | 0% |
| Shelby County Historical Society | $500 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($183k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lampe Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
About The Lampe Trust
- How much does The Lampe Trust give?
- The Lampe Trust reported 2 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lampe Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (25%), Arts & Culture (13%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are The Lampe Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Northwood-Kensett Booster Club ($30k), St Anthony Foundation ($11k), Worth County Conservation Foundation ($10k).
- Does The Lampe Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lampe Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lampe Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Lampe Trust based?
- The Lampe Trust is based in IA.
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