· Private foundation
L S Shoen Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $247k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRUM FOUNDATION | $126,500 |
| PET HELPERS | $60,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $60,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- CFCENTRUM FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $793k · revenue +32%
- FHFred Hutchinson Cancer Center3× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +97%
- BBARK4× · 2017–2021 · $75k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- MUMARYLHURST UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -84%
- TJTHE JEFFERSON COUNTY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -35%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $26k
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.
Friends of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands is dedicated to the preservation, care, and enjoyment of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands.
RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.
Columbia Gorge Humane Society is committed to promoting healthy, safe and lifelong relationships between people and their pets through sustainable programs of education, adoption and spay/neutering. We will endeavor to fight for the abused…
House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…
Habitat for humanity of washington dodge counties, wisconsin, inc. is a locally-run affiliate of habitat for humanity international, a nonprofit ecumenical christian housing ministry. habitat for humanity works in partnership with people…
Organized to build and provide affordable housing for the needy with the efforts of volunteers
Preservation of community forests, supporting education and community utilization of community lands in the Chewelah Valley.
Caring for homeless animals, and finding homes for them through pet adoptions.
The mission of the Northwest Fair Housing Alliance is to eliminate housing discrimination and to ensure equal housing opportunity for the people of Washington State through education, counseling and advocacy.
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
To create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.
The mission of the Two Valleys Community Land Trust is to create, preserve and manage affordable housing in the San Geronimo Valley and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pet Helpers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 26 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 CENTRUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Pet Helpers ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARYLHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds BARK ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PORT TOWNSEND FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SUNFIELD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEFFERSON COUNTY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE OBTAINABLE SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds BAYSIDE HOUSING & SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST WATERSHED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds COLOR OF SOUND ↗
- Who funds COER CHARITABLE ↗
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: Jefferson Community Foundation · The Robert and Susan Brown Family Foundation Inc · Whitney Family Foundation · Entelco Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 L S Shoen 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.
- Bark — 2% 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.