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The Lenise-Allou Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Lenise-Allou Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$803kPublic Safety & Disaster$225kInternational$75kFood & Nutrition$20kHuman Services$10kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$99,868
Median grant
1
States reached
$213k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONCORDIA SEMINARY$99,868
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MA
IA
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
LA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$803k · 3 repeat orgs$340k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
15

Total granted

$803k
$340k

Still filing today

0%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CS
    CONCORDIA SEMINARY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $738k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2017–2020 · $35k
  • LC
    LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD
    2× · 2017–2018 · $30k

Funded once

  • LF
    LCMS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE INTERNATIONAL REL
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +24%
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
3/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONCORDIA SEMINARY: $737,726 · OtherCONCORDIA SEMINARYLCMS FOUNDATION: $99,995 · OtherLCMS FOUNDATIONSAMARITAN'S PURSE INTERNATIONAL REL: $49,866 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $35,000 · Other+9 more: $105,500 · Other+9 moreDIRECT RELIEF: $49,866 · InternationalLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $25,000 · InternationalNEBRASKA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC: $20,000 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,028,087International$74,866Education$20,000Human Services$10,000Community Improvement$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $49,866 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lenise-Allou Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lenise-Allou Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc: 47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 18 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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