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Dj and Nb Larson Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Dj and Nb Larson Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$48k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$14k
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, FY2023 to 2025.

Environment$31kHealth$22kPhilanthropy$20kHuman Services$8kRecreation & Sports$8kFood & Nutrition$5kAnimals$3kCrime & Legal$3k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$893k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$14,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO SANTA CRUZ$7,500
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MONTEREY COUNTY$6,000
LAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ$5,000
GREY BEARS$5,000
HOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY$2,500
ELKHORN SLOUGH FOUNDATION$2,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$2,000
TEEN KITCHEN PROJECT$2,000
ST JUDE HOSPITAL$2,000
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 (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%GREY BEARS: $5k → 13%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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$44k · 7 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$44k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+39%

Still filing today

71%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsCivil RightsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HO
    HOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +11%
  • CW
    COASTAL WATERSHED COUNCIL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +27%
  • TK
    TEEN KITCHEN PROJECT
    2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • LT
    LAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +319%
  • PD
    POSITIVE DISCIPLINE COMMUNITY RESOURCES
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -2%
  • UT
    Upwell Turtlesgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +39%
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
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
2
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
3
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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4
Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks

Friends of santa cruz state parks is a vital partner to california state parks, creatively working to ensure parks and beaches throughout santa cruz county and coastal san mateo county are thriving and available to all.

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5
Santa Cruz Community Farmers Market

To serve our community by providing direct access to sustainable sources of fresh produce and other unique foods, and provide education about food issues, both local and beyond.

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6
Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship

Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship is creating and maintaining world-class trails responsibly, sustainably, and collectively.

Environment
7
Big Sur Land Trust

The mission of the Big Sur Land Trust is to inspire love of the land and conservation of our treasured landscapes.

Environment
8
Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment
9
Ecology Action of Santa Cruz

The primary and specific purpose for which the said corporation is formed is to empower individuals, businesses and communities to take actions today that achieve environmental and economic sustainability. The activities of the corporation…

Environment
10
The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County

To conserve natural resources, agricultural land and open spaces for present and future generations.

Environment
11
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
12
Sequoia Riverlands Trust

We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Land Trust of Santa Cruz County; the most unlike its peers is Positive Discipline Community Resources. 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

14 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. 14 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $14,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ: $8,000 · OtherLAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZHOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $7,750 · OtherHOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTYCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIO SANTA CRUZ: $7,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIO SANTA CRUZST JUDE HOSPITAL: $7,000 · OtherST JUDE HOSPITALMOUNTAIN PARKS FOUNDATION OF SANTA CRUZ: $3,000 · OtherMOUNTAIN PARKS FOUNDATION OF SANTA CRUZPLANNED PARENTHOOD DEL MONTE: $2,000 · OtherCOASTAL WATERSHED COUNCIL: $5,500 · EnvironmentCOASTAL WATERSH…LAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $5,000 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST OF S…PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $2,000 · EnvironmentPENINSULA OPEN …SANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING: $1,000 · EnvironmentSANTA CRUZ HUB …COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $6,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOU…Elkhorn Slough Foundation: $6,000 · PhilanthropyElkhorn Sloug…GREY BEARS: $5,000 · Human ServicesGREY BEAR…POSITIVE DISCIPLINE COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $3,000 · Human ServicesPOSITIVE …TEEN KITCHEN PROJECT: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $5,000 · HealthUpwell Turtles: $3,000 · AnimalsCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $3,000 · Civil Rights
Other$49,250Environment$13,500Philanthropy$12,000Human Services$8,000Youth Development$5,000Health$5,000Animals$3,000Civil Rights$3,000

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 budgetHOSPICE OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $7,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetElkhorn Slough Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL WATERSHED COUNCIL: $5,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTEEN KITCHEN PROJECT: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREY BEARS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAND TRUST OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE DISCIPLINE COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUpwell Turtles: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNTAIN PARKS FOUNDATION OF SANTA CRUZ: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA CRUZ HUB FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Community Foundation …Monterey Peninsula Fo…Volunteer Centers of …Silicon Valley Commun…Sharanam FoundationHelen and Will Webste…Kaiser Foundation Hos…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation Santa Cruz CountyCA24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Sharanam Foundation · Helen and Will Webster Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Dj and Nb Larson Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dj and Nb Larson Family Foundation Inc. 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%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 19 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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