Illinois · Public charity
The Lawn Institute Foundation
Conducting education and research of sod production.
- $82k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $70k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $33,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Lawn Institute Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationOther
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 year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 5 | $70k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $44k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $41k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $34k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $17k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $20k | n/a |
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What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Science & Tech$188kCommunity Improvement$20kEducation$18kPhilanthropy$11k
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
IL
OR
IN
VA
NM
KS
NC
MS
TX
FL
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas A&M University | $45,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $44,837 | 3 | n/a |
| Nc State University | $33,600 | 1 | n/a |
| Kansas State University | $24,842 | 2 | n/a |
| Turfgrass Producers International | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Oregon State University | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Florida | $19,870 | 2 | n/a |
| Mississippi State University | $11,000 | 2 | n/a |
| New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
About The Lawn Institute Foundation
- How much does The Lawn Institute Foundation give?
- The Lawn Institute Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $69,803, out of $82,303 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Lawn Institute Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (80%), Community Improvement (8%), Education (7%).
- Who are The Lawn Institute Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Texas A&M University ($45k), Trustees of Purdue University ($45k), Nc State University ($34k).
- Does The Lawn Institute Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is The Lawn Institute Foundation based?
- The Lawn Institute Foundation is based in IL.
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More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home