Foundation News
Posted December 4, 2025
After listening to grantee concerns in early 2025, The Lumpkin Family Foundation (LFF) formed the Resilience Fund as a temporary grantmaking program created to support recent nonprofit grantee organizations that faced urgent, destabilizing challenges resulting from federal policy changes and the abrupt loss of public funding—especially as they impacted rural and marginalized communities.
Foundation News
Posted October 9, 2025
The Lumpkin Family Foundation’s Nature-Based Climate Action Program (NBCA), recently awarded 13 new and responsive grants in the East Central Illinois area, totaling $361,000.
Foundation News
Posted August 27, 2025
The Lumpkin Family Foundation’s newest grant program, Wellness Grants for Leaders + Frontline Workers, recently awarded 8 wellness grants and 4 sabbatical leave grants, totaling $59,400.
Foundation News
Posted August 13, 2025
Fresh Taste has announced the 2025 Austin Fresh Fresh Call for Ideas.
Foundation News
Posted July 29, 2025
The Lumpkin Family Foundation, a nonprofit grantmaking organization dedicated to building healthy, sustainable communities in East Central Illinois and across the United States, is excited to announce Heidi Dusek as its new Executive Director, effective August 1, 2025.
Foundation News
Posted July 22, 2025
The Lumpkin Family Foundation is pleased to announce that its 2025 Land, Health, Community-Chicago program grant cycle will open on August 22nd and will accept Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) until September 26th.
