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The Niels a Lundgard and Ruth Lundgard at a glance

· Private foundation

The Niels a Lundgard and Ruth Lundgard

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$236k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2023.

Human Services$1.1MEducation$924kReligion$856kPublic Safety & Disaster$851kPhilanthropy$836kArts & Culture$62kEnvironment$50kHealth$20kOther$0
02FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$235,918
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST PAULS EVANGELICAL & REFORMED CHURCH$235,918
PIQUA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$235,918
THE SALVATION ARMY$235,918
AMERICAN NATL RED CROSS$235,918
PIQUA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$235,918
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%MIAMI COUNTY YMCA: $100k → 10%MIAMI COUNTY YMCA: $50k → 10%MIAMI COUNTY YMCA: $50k → 10%MIAMI COUNTY YMCA: $50k → 10%AMERICAN NATL RED CROSS: $600k → 10%AMERICAN NATL RED CROSS: $236k → 10%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 6 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
15

Total granted

$3.6M
$256k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+30%

Still filing today

67%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2020–2023 · $846k · revenue +38%
  • MC
    Miami County YMCA
    4× · 2019–2022 · $250k · revenue +68%
  • RC
    REHABILITATION CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • MG
    MIDDLE GREAT MIAMI RIVER WATERSHED
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • PH
    PIQUA HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • JF
    JOHNSTON FARM FRIENDS COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +30%
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

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.

1
Piqua Library Assistance and Development Fund

Financial support for the piqua public library and museum.

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2
Piqua Area Chamber of Commerce

To work with business to improve and enhance the city of piqua

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3
Grow Piqua Now

Economic development for the city of piqua, ohio.

Community Improvement
4
Piqua Area United Way

To be a positive force in stimulating the interest, support and participation of the piqua area in the funding of the worthy educational, character building, health and welfare organizations, whether local, regional, national or…

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5
Putnam County Agricultural Society

The putnam county agricultural society provides agricultural education and entertainment to citizens of putnam county, ohio and surrounding areas.

Food & Nutrition
6
Miller Deime Family Foundation

Provide scholarships and grants to any qualified ohio residents pursuing or planning to pursue and undergraduate degree at any accredited institution of higher education.

Education
7
Canfield Heritage Foundation

Museum

Arts & Culture
8
Piqua Music Boosters Inc

To support the local high school music program

Education
9
The Cincinnati Foundation for the Aged
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10
Medina County Food Pantry

Provide emergency food for those in need.

Human Services
11
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity - Ohio Delta Chapter

College Fraternity

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12
Ywca Piqua Ohio

Ywca piqua, ohio is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Piqua Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Bethany Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SALVATION ARMY: $845,918 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYST PAULS EVANGELICAL & REFORMED CHURCH: $835,918 · OtherST PAULS EVANGELICAL & REFORMED CHURCH+11 more: $199,500 · Other+11 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $845,918 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cros…Miami County YMCA: $250,000 · Human ServicesMiami County YMCAPIQUA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $835,918 · EducationPIQUA EDUCATION FOUN…PIQUA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $835,918 · PhilanthropyPIQUA COMMUNITY FOUN…JOHNSTON FARM FRIENDS COUNCIL: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF MAINSTREET PIQUA INC: $22,000 · Arts & CulturePIQUA ARTS COUNCIL INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBETHANY CENTER: $10,000 · Food & NutritionPIQUA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,881,336Human Services$1,095,918Education$835,918Philanthropy$835,918Arts & Culture$62,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Community Improvement$4,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $845,918 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPIQUA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $835,918 over 2y, 26% of budgetPIQUA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $835,918 over 2y, 23% of budgetMiami County YMCA: $250,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetJOHNSTON FARM FRIENDS COUNCIL: $25,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF MAINSTREET PIQUA INC: $22,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetREHABILITATION CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPIQUA ARTS COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBETHANY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetFAMILY ABUSE SHELTER OF MIAMI COUNTY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPIQUA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 22% 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.

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.

Niels a Lundgard & Ru…Upper Valley Medical …Piqua Community Found…Park National Corpora…The Paul G Duke Found…The Troy FoundationRosemary Ovenden Char…Rosemary Ovenden Char…Hartzell Norris Chari…First Bank Richmond I…The Dayton FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …
Niels a Lundgard & Ruth Lundgard FdnOH24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Niels a Lundgard & Ruth Lundgard Fdn · Upper Valley Medical Center · Piqua Community Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · The Paul G Duke Foundation · The Troy Foundation · Rosemary Ovenden Char Tr #2 · Rosemary Ovenden Char Tr #1 · Hartzell Norris Charitable Trust · First Bank Richmond Inc Community Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Niels a Lundgard and Ruth Lundgard funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Niels a Lundgard and Ruth Lundgard. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 22 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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