· Private foundation
Jean K Lafromboise Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $385k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF GREENLAKE | $100,000 |
| SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER | $75,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $60,000 |
| CHILDHAVEN | $50,000 |
| SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| NORTHWEST HARVEST | $25,000 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $25,000 |
| YOUTH CARE | $20,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MARY'S PLACE | $20,000 |
| PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SOLID GROUND | $10,000 |
| PIKE PLACE SENIOR CENTER | $10,000 |
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, $315k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% 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.
46 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF GREEN LAKE CREW4× · 2017–2020 · $415k · revenue +464% · 70% of their budget
- CCHILDHAVEN8× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +31%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $267k · revenue +46%
Funded once
ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCILone grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -5%- ARASSOCIATED RECREATIONAL COUNSILone grant, 2018 · $50k
- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.
Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…
To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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.
Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.
Restoring hope, building futures, and strengthening our communities through programs with youth, young adults and families. we support the behavioral health of at-risk and in-crisis youth across the greater south king county area. we take…
To build a thriving, just and empowered pacific northwest using capital, relationships and voice.
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.
To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington and the most unlike its peers is Maris Place. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 68 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 FRIENDS OF GREEN LAKE CREW ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE MISSION ↗
- Who funds VENTURES ↗
- Who funds MARY'S PLACE SEATTLE ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · United Way of King County · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Apex Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington · Real Progress Foundation · Medina Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Lucky Seven 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 Jean K Lafromboise 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.
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.
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