Minnesota · Private foundation
The Luther Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $966k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The Luther Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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 | 35 | $709k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $552k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $581k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $634k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $738k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $598k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $545k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $495k | 28% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Group Minnesota Inc The | $375,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Feed My Starving Children Inc | $350,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Young Mens Christian Association of the North | $235,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $185,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Hudson Hockey Association Inc | $180,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc | $163,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Union Gospel Mission Inc | $155,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Every Meal | $150,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Treehouse Inc | $145,000 | 7 | 1% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $130,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Luther 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: The Minneapolis Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Edina Realty Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The Jamf Nation Global Foundation
How this is measured
About The Luther Family Foundation
- How much does The Luther Family Foundation give?
- The Luther Family Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $965,993 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Luther Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (36%), Human Services (18%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are The Luther Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Food Group Minnesota Inc The ($375k), Feed My Starving Children Inc ($350k), Young Mens Christian Association of the North ($235k).
- Does The Luther Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Luther Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Luther Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation, Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation.
- Where is The Luther Family Foundation based?
- The Luther Family Foundation is based in MN.
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