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Jean K Lafromboise Foundation at a glance

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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.

$645k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.2MHuman Services$895kEducation$884kRecreation & Sports$640kEnvironment$640kPublic Safety & Disaster$160kYouth Development$150kHousing & Shelter$140kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $385k
$15,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF GREENLAKE$100,000
SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER$75,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$60,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$50,000
SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND$50,000
CHILDHAVEN$50,000
NORTHWEST HARVEST$25,000
SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$25,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$25,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION$20,000
MARY'S PLACE$20,000
YOUTH CARE$20,000
PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION$15,000
YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY$10,000
HOOVER INSTITUTION$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LYMELIGHT FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%IGNITE: $10k → 14%LYMELIGHT FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%SOUND GENERATIONS: $20k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $10k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $10k → 9%SOUND GENERATIONS: $5k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 9%BREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $10k → 9%BREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $5k → 9%YOUTH CARE: $20k → 9%BREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $5k → 9%YOUTH CARE: $10k → 9%YOUTH CARE: $10k → 9%BREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $5k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $5k → 9%YOUTH CARE: $5k → 9%BREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $5k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
NY
NJ
CA
VA
DC
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 46 repeat orgs$253k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
18

Total granted

$4.9M
$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+59%

Still filing today

57%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF GREEN LAKE CREW
    4× · 2017–2020 · $415k · revenue +464% · 70% of their budget
  • C
    CHILDHAVEN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +31%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $267k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL
    one grant, 2019 · $75k · revenue -5%
  • AR
    ASSOCIATED RECREATIONAL COUNSIL
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • UG
    UNION GOSPEL MISSION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Association of Washington Cities

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…

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2
Seattle Foundation

Seattle foundation's mission is to ignite powerful and rewarding philanthropy to make greater seattle a stronger, more vibrant community for all.

Philanthropy
3
Life Science Washington

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…

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4
Senior Life Resources Northwest

To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.

Human Services
5
Western Healthconnect

Support significant improvements in health care delivery and outcomes within the context of nonprofit, charitable ownership.

Health
6
The George Washington University

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…

Education
7
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
8
Portland State University Foundation

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.

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9
Nexus Youth and Families

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…

Human Services
10
CRAFT3

To build a thriving, just and empowered pacific northwest using capital, relationships and voice.

Community Improvement
11
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
12
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho

To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington; 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.
04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 68 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
28/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF GREEN LAKE: $550,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF GREEN LAKEVIRGINIA MASON FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherVIRGINIA MASON FOUNDATIONMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP: $340,000 · OtherMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIPCHILDHAVEN: $315,000 · OtherCHILDHAVENSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER: $290,000 · OtherSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTERSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $170,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $160,000 · OtherRYTHER CHILD CENTER: $140,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $135,000 · Other+34 more: $1,073,000 · Other+34 moreFRIENDS OF GREEN LAKE CREW: $415,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF…ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SEATTLE: $45,000 · PhilanthropyASSISTANCE…+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $267,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationVENTURES: $25,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $20,000 · Education+2 more: $8,500 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $160,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHCARE: $50,000 · Human ServicesSOUND GENERATIONS: $45,000 · Human ServicesBREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $30,000 · Human ServicesLymeLight Foundation: $20,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $20,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $120,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON: $75,000 · HealthNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS: $40,000 · HealthGOOD WISHES: $10,000 · HealthPROJECT LYME: $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI: $35,000 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL: $15,000 · Arts & CulturePIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Community Improvement
Other$3,673,000Philanthropy$465,000Education$370,500Human Services$335,000Health$255,000Arts & Culture$80,000Community Improvement$75,000

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 budgetFRIENDS OF GREEN LAKE CREW: $415,000 over 4y, 70% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $315,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $267,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $115,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON: $75,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFARESTART: $60,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SEATTLE: $45,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSOUND GENERATIONS: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS: $40,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE MISSION: $30,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVENTURES: $25,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLymeLight Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaris Place: $20,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSolid Ground Washington: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD WISHES: $10,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetPROJECT LYME: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetIGNITE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBridgeways: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS-LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPacific Lutheran University: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATED RECREATION COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FARESTART ↗
  • Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHCARE ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SEATTLE ↗
  • Who funds SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL OF TRUSTEES AND ALUMNI ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BREAD OF LIFE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds VENTURES ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…United Way of King Co…The Albertsons Compan…Grousemont FoundationApex FoundationKaiser Foundation Hea…Real Progress Foundat…Medina FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…Lucky Seven Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA28.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jean K Lafromboise Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jean K Lafromboise Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Jean K Lafromboise Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Jean K Lafromboise 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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