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Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$448k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$719kHealth$374kYouth Development$294kHousing & Shelter$277kHuman Services$244kAnimals$152kPhilanthropy$145kRecreation & Sports$140kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k17 grants · $393k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME$55,000
TREEHOUSE$30,000
OUTDOORS FOR ALL FOUNDATION$30,000
SEATTLE JAZZED$30,000
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION$30,000
ARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST$30,000
HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLE-KING$30,000
SAINT MARY OF THE WOODS COLLEGE$29,200
LW TECH FOUNDATION$25,000
THE SPACE$20,000
VASHON ISLAND GROWERS ASSOCIATION$20,000
BLAINE COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$20,000
ARCHBISHOP THOMAS J MURPHY HIGH$20,000
IDAHO COALITION FOR SAFE HELATHCARE$20,000
THE SOPHIA WAY$15,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $461k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER: $10k → 14%SCARLET ROAD: $10k → 10%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $16k → 14%TACOMA URBAN LEAGUE: $5k → 9%HOPESPARKS: $20k → 9%SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $15k → 7%THE WISHING WELL FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%NEW HORIZONS: $15k → 9%HOPESPARKS: $10k → 9%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $5k → 9%STEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $6k → 9%RESOURCE OF EDUCATION ADVOCACY: $10k → 14%SPACE BETWEEN: $5k → 9%BLAINE COUNTY SENIORS COUNCIL INC: $5k → 7%THE SENIOR CONNECTION: $5k → 7%SOUTH GENERATIONS: $5k → 9%SPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $62k → 7%FLOURISH FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%SUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE: $5k → 7%LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH: $14k → 14%THE SOPHIA WAY: $15k → 9%SOUTHWEST YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 9%THE SOPHIA WAY: $15k → 9%ALPHA SUPPORTED LIVING SERVICES: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WEST: $33k → 9%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 9%PARENT TRUST FOR WASHINGTON CHILDRE: $5k → 9%RYTHER: $31k → 9%REFUGEE WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $3k → 9%ATWORK: $5k → 9%ATWORK: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $55k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $13k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $9k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $5k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $5k → 9%ELIZABETH GREGORY HOME: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
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MN
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IN
CA
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CO
MO
VA
AZ
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DC
HI
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 40 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
139

Total granted

$1.3M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+20%

Still filing today

88%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • HAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2025 · $152k · revenue +18%
  • EH
    Elizabeth Home
    3× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +72%
  • JI
    JOURNEYMEN INSTITUTE
    3× · 2018–2023 · $49k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • SA
    SHORT AVENUE SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • RI
    REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -30%
  • GF
    GLEANING FOR THE WORLD INC
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -72%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
School's Out Washington

School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.

Youth Development
2
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
3
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

—
4
Disability Rights Washington

Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.

Human Services
5
Cares of Washington

Support people with disabilities and low incomes to realize their purpose, potential and strength.

Employment
6
Rainier Scholars

Cultivates the academic potential and leadership skills of underrepresented students. by creating access to opportunities and holistic support, we increase college graduation rates and empower new generations of leaders.

Education
7
Seattle Jobs Initiative

Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.

Employment
8
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
9
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…

—
10
Humanities Washington

Humanities washington (hw) opens minds and bridges divides by creating spaces to explore different perspectives. we envision a state where all people seek a deeper understanding of others, themselves, and the human experience, in order to…

Arts & Culture
11
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
12
Washington Vocational Services

To provide job development, job seeking skills and job placement for persons with disabilities. we are dedicated to providing outstanding quality services that result in successful community involvement and employment for persons with…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Center and the most unlike its peers is Rj's Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr12%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr16%3%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr18%32%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr12%21%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/154
the rest of the field
15%
10,550/69,709

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 152 of the 190 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
151/152
Grantees still filing
96/152
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SHORT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $91,500 · OtherSHORT AVENUE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLARCHBISHOP THOMAS J MURPHY HIGH — $56,600 · OtherSeattle JazzED — $60,000 · OtherCLEANSLATE-LA — $76,200 · OtherHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $52,150 · Other+101 more — $1,210,121 · Other+101 moreElizabeth Home — $68,650 · Human ServicesElizabeth HomeSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $62,400 · Human ServicesSPUR COMMUNITY FO…CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $33,200 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC COMMUNIT…RYTHER — $30,800 · Human ServicesRYTHERHopeSparks — $30,000 · Human ServicesHopeSparksTHE SOPHIA WAY — $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE SOPHIA WAYYOUTHCARE — $22,500 · Human ServicesSUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE — $20,400 · Human Services+21 more — $173,100 · Human Services+21 moreEASTSIDE ACADEMY — $35,000 · EducationEASTSIDE AC…826LA — $31,200 · Education826LANORTHWEST'S CHILD — $31,000 · EducationNORTHWEST'S…SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE — $29,200 · EducationSAINT MARY-…Team Read — $18,000 · EducationTeam ReadPIONEER MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $17,700 · EducationPIONEER MON…OCEAN CHARTER SCHOOL — $17,000 · EducationOCEAN CHART…EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY — $16,100 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR TACOMA STUDENTS — $14,250 · Education+14 more — $99,775 · Education+14 moreHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION — $152,000 · HealthHAZELDEN B…FRIENDS OF YOUTH — $30,600 · HealthFRIENDS OF…CHAD'S LEGACY PROJECT — $22,500 · HealthCHAD'S LEG…IDAHO COALITION FOR SAFE HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · HealthIDAHO COAL…MEDIC ONE FOUNDATION — $12,700 · HealthHEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER — $10,000 · HealthLEWIS COUNTY AUTISM COALITION — $9,000 · Health+2 more — $13,000 · HealthJOURNEYMEN INSTITUTE — $48,750 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSE — $38,500 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of Southern Idaho Inc — $16,350 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC — $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentRj's Kids — $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOOP FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGEEKING OUT KIDS OF COLOR — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS IN CONCERT INC — $7,500 · Youth Development+2 more — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentPET PARTNERS — $51,600 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $30,000 · AnimalsPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN — $20,800 · AnimalsPATTY BAKER HUMANE SOCIETY NAPLES INC — $16,100 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY — $14,734 · Animals+1 more — $4,000 · AnimalsOutdoors for all Foundation — $45,000 · Recreation & SportsLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $40,800 · Recreation & SportsBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsBike Works Seattle — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsPEACE COMMUNITY CENTER — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsHIGHER GROUND USA INC — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsWASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND — $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,546,571Human Services$471,050Education$309,225Health$269,800Youth Development$163,100Animals$137,234Recreation & Sports$135,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION — $152,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLEANSLATE-LA — $76,200 over 2y, 36% of budgetElizabeth Home — $68,650 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSPUR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $62,400 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSeattle JazzED — $60,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $52,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPET PARTNERS — $51,600 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJOURNEYMEN INSTITUTE — $48,750 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetOutdoors for all Foundation — $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKINDERING CENTER — $44,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE BIT THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $40,800 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVASHON ISLAND GROWERS ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetTREEHOUSE — $38,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTSIDE ACADEMY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGLEANING FOR THE WORLD INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF WESTERN WASHINGTON — $33,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget826LA — $31,200 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHWEST'S CHILD — $31,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRYTHER — $30,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOUTH — $30,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARCH COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHopeSparks — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOPHIA WAY — $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS COLLEGE — $29,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMORNINGSIDE — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAX HIGBEE COMMUNITY RECREATION CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWhatcom Center for Early Learning — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 61 EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $24,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetYOUTHCARE — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHAD'S LEGACY PROJECT — $22,500 over 1y, 29% of budgetPASADO'S SAFE HAVEN — $20,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUN VALLEY INSTITUTE FOR RESILIENCE — $20,400 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArts Corps — $18,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTeam Read — $18,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetKIND INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIONEER MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $17,700 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOCEAN CHARTER SCHOOL — $17,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirls on the Run of Southern Idaho Inc — $16,350 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY — $16,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPATTY BAKER HUMANE SOCIETY NAPLES INC — $16,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $16,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHunger Intervention Program — $16,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Medina FoundationLiberty Mutual Founda…Seattle FoundationMoccasin Lake Foundat…Lucky Seven FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…M J Murdock Charitabl…Garneau Nicon Family …Credit Unions in the …United Way of King Co…
The Norcliffe FoundationWA104.8× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Medina Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Seattle Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · School's Out Washington · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · United Way of King County

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    62report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Elizabeth a Lynn Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 190 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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