· Private foundation
George & Audrey Rasmussen Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $30,000 |
| SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| AUDUBON WASHINGTON | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NOOKSACK SALMON ENHANCEMENT ASSOCIATION | $4,733 |
| FEATHER RIVER TROUT UNLIMITED | $4,200 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $3,000 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $2,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST BELLINGHAM WA | $2,000 |
| KUOW | $2,000 |
| PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND | $1,000 |
| SKAGIT VALLEY LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $1,000 |
| PROPUBLICA | $1,000 |
| GUATEMALA HOUSING ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- STSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE8× · 2017–2024 · $147k · revenue +267%
EARTHJUSTICE8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +82%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue ×15
Funded once
- AAUDUBONone grant, 2018 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- TETHE EUPHRATES INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +161%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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…
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.
Defenders of Wildlife is a national, nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Think of Us and the most unlike its peers is Baseball Beyond Borders. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
81 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. 81 of the 175 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds RECREATION NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GUATEMALA HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WILD WHATCOM ↗
- Who funds OHANA OASIS INC ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SKAGIT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM OF THE PRESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance ↗
- Who funds NOOKSACK SALMON ENHANCEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Raikes Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Artsfund · Marin Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation
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 George & Audrey Rasmussen Family 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.
- Fidelity House Inc — 91% of income from government
- Oregon Timber Trail Alliance — 61% of income from government
- Linfield University — 4% of income from government
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.