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L S Shoen Foundation at a glance

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L S Shoen Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$297k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$127k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$846kHousing & Shelter$332kAnimals$210kEducation$190kFood & Nutrition$165kPhilanthropy$115kEnvironment$91kHealth$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $247k
$60,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRUM FOUNDATION$126,500
PET HELPERS$60,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$60,000
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$25,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VALLEY OF THE SUN YMCA: $20k → 11%THE GIVING SPIRIT: $2k → 14%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.
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 10 repeat orgs$350k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

$1.6M
$265k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-5%

Still filing today

50%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentAnimalsHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CF
    CENTRUM FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $793k · revenue +32%
  • FH
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
    3× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +97%
  • B
    BARK
    4× · 2017–2021 · $75k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • MU
    MARYLHURST UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -84%
  • TJ
    THE JEFFERSON COUNTY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -35%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $26k
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
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
2
Re Sources

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.

Environment
3
Columbia Gorge Humane Society

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…

Animals
4
House Our Neighbors

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…

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5
Habitat for Humanity of Washington and Dodge Counties Wisconsin Inc

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…

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6
Habitat for Humanity of Mason County

Organized to build and provide affordable housing for the needy with the efforts of volunteers

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7
Chewelah Valley Land Trust Non Profit Land Trust Cvlt

Preservation of community forests, supporting education and community utilization of community lands in the Chewelah Valley.

Environment
8
Mendocino Coast Humane Society

Caring for homeless animals, and finding homes for them through pet adoptions.

Animals
9
Northwest Fair Housing Alliance

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.

Civil Rights
10
Washington Humane Society

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…

Animals
11
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland

To create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.

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12
Two Valleys Community Land Trust

The mission of the Two Valleys Community Land Trust is to create, preserve and manage affordable housing in the San Geronimo Valley and beyond.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/20
Grantees still filing
10/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTRUM FOUNDATION: $793,400 · Arts & CultureCENTRUM FOUNDATIONHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $170,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCTHE PORT TOWNSEND FOOD BANK: $135,000 · OtherTHE PORT TOWNSEND FOOD BANKMARYLHURST UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · OtherMARYLHURST UNIVERSITYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EAST: $90,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EASTHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC: $60,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INCPORT TOWNSEND FILM SOCIETY: $52,500 · OtherPORT TOWNSEND FILM SOCIETYTHE JEFFERSON COUNTY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $26,000 · Other+8 more: $94,400 · Other+8 morePet Helpers: $150,000 · AnimalsPet HelpersCENTER VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE: $60,000 · AnimalsCENTER VALL…JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $115,000 · PhilanthropyBARK: $75,000 · EnvironmentNORTHWEST WATERSHED INSTITUTE: $5,000 · EnvironmentSUNFIELD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $40,100 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationSUSTAINABLE OBTAINABLE SOLUTIONS: $10,000 · EducationFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $75,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$793,400Other$757,900Animals$210,000Philanthropy$115,000Environment$80,000Education$75,100Health$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRUM FOUNDATION: $793,400 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetJEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetMARYLHURST UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARK: $75,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC: $60,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCENTER VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE: $60,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetPORT TOWNSEND FILM SOCIETY: $52,500 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetSUNFIELD EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: $40,100 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetTHE JEFFERSON COUNTY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE OBTAINABLE SOLUTIONS: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBAYSIDE HOUSING & SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHWEST WATERSHED INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE GIVING SPIRIT: $2,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOER CHARITABLE: $1,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCOLOR OF SOUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Jefferson Community F…The Robert and Susan …Whitney Family Founda…Entelco FoundationSeattle FoundationNetwork for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jefferson Community FoundationWA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 L S Shoen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from L S Shoen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Bark: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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By state
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