How much did L S SHOEN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

L S SHOEN FOUNDATION reported 5 grants totaling $346,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is L S SHOEN FOUNDATION based?

L S SHOEN FOUNDATION is based in WI.

L S SHOEN FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

L S SHOEN FOUNDATION

This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.

$346k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$225k

Largest

01What you fund

0163% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$657kAnimals$150kPhilanthropy$115kEnvironment$80kEducation$75kHealth$50kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$2kCivil Rights$1kOther$670k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

port townsend

2020

—

2021

—

2022

—

2023

jefferson

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $1k
$10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$50k–250k2 grants · $295k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

CENTRUM FOUNDATION$225,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$70,000
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER$25,000
PORT TOWNSEND FILM SOCIETY$25,000
COLOR OF SOUND$1,000

02The need

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 (FY21–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.5M · 11 repeat orgs$275k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.5M

$274k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

-10%

Still filing today

55%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CulturePhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

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

CF
CENTRUM FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $657k · revenue +32%
JC
JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
4× · 2019–2023 · $115k · revenue +289%
B
BARK
4× · 2017–2021 · $75k · revenue +11%

Funded once

MU
MARYLHURST UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2017 · $100k
TJ
THE JEFFERSON COUNTY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATI
one grant, 2023 · $30k
JM
JC MASH
one grant, 2020 · $26k

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.

Habitat for Humanity of Washington

The organization's mission is to seek to put god's love into action. habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope. habitat for humanity of washington county (hfhwc) is a nonprofit, ecumenical christian…

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Washington Humane Society

To protect animals in the district of columbia and new jersey from cruelty and harm.

Animals

Friends of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands

Friends of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands is dedicated to the preservation, care, and enjoyment of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands.

Environment

Heartwood Haven

Heartwood Haven fights against the disastrous effects of animal cruelty through rescue, education, and sanctuary to promote a more compassionate world for animals and humans.

Animals

Whatcom Land Trust

Protecting the rich and vibrant lands for a healthy, thriving Whatcom County for generations to come.

Environment

Habitat for Humanity Peninsula and

Habitat for humanity peninsula & greater williamsburg, inc. was founded in october 1985 as a nonprofit, ecumenical housing ministry affiliated with habitat for humanity international, inc., to seek to eliminate poverty and homelessness…

Housing & Shelter

Puget Sound Restoration Fund

To restore habitat, water quality and native species in the puget sound

Environment

Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…

Environment

Center for Northern Woodlands

Advance a culture of forest stewardship in the northeast.

Public Safety & Disaster

Futurewise

Futurewise works throughout Washington state to encourage healthy, equitable and opportunity-rich communities, and to protect our most valuable farmlands, forests and water resources through wise land use policies and practices.

Environment

Seattle Animal Shelter Foundation

Seattle Animal Foundation (SAF), is on a mission to make sure every animal finds the love, care, and forever home they deserve. Since 2010, we have been a not-for-profit organization raising critical funds to support life-saving programs,…

Animals

Center for Responsible Forestry

The mission of Center for Responsible Forestry (CRF) is to achieve the permanent protection of the last remaining legacy forests in Western Washington by working with impacted local communities and state policymakers. CRF also works in…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Washington Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/17

Grantees still filing

9/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$682,900Arts & Culture$656,900Animals$150,000Philanthropy$115,000Environment$80,000Education$75,100Health$50,000

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.

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.

Entelco FoundationWA13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Entelco Foundation · Robert & Susan Brown Family Foundation · Jefferson Community Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 organisation 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SUSTAINABLE OBTAINABLE SOLUTIONS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 810540796 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SUSTAINABLE OBTAINABLE SOLUTIONS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to L S Shoen Foundation?

Find your warmest path to L S Shoen Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

L S SHOEN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to L S Shoen Foundation?

More from the funding graph

L S SHOEN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to L S Shoen Foundation?

More from the funding graph