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Lagu Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| MARY'S PLACE | $6,000 |
| NWIRP NW IMMIGRANT RIGHTS | $5,500 |
| NEXT | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON NATIONAL PARKS FUND | $5,000 |
| HAWAIIAN AUDUBON SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| MAKE SHIFT ART SPACE | $3,000 |
| SUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH | $3,000 |
| ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $3,000 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF AK | $3,000 |
| TYONEK GROWN CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $2,000 |
| NEPAL SEEDS | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL IMMIGRANTS JUSTICE CENTER | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| NORTH CASCADES INSTITUTE | $1,250 |
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 (FY20–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 7 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- MPMaris Place5× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +42%
- AMALOHA MEDICAL MISSION2× · 2020–2021 · $14k · revenue +43%
- MMakeshift4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- SOSAIL ORCAS - A SAILING EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +159%
- SKSkookum Kidsone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -4%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
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.
To build and enhance the competitiveness of Washington State's film and associated creative industry. We accomplish this by marketing and managing the state's production incentive program, representing the state in national and…
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
To bring people, communities, and resources together to ensure waterfront park thrives as a vibrant gathering space - uplifting locals, fostering connections and honoring seattle's natural beauty and stories.
Discover Your Northwest promotes the discovery of northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors and builds community stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.
Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.
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.
Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…
United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
Provide and promote constructive and collaborative approaches to conflict resolution through mediation, training, facilitation, supervised visits and community education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Moran State Park. 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 29 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.
36 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. 36 of the 62 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 ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds NEXT ↗
- Who funds HAWAII AUDUBON SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALOHA MEDICAL MISSION ↗
- Who funds Makeshift ↗
- Who funds LEGAL VOICE ↗
- Who funds ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LOPEZ ISLAND POOL ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET SOUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF YOUTH ↗
- Who funds SAIL ORCAS - A SAILING EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND ↗
- Who funds North Cascades Institute ↗
- Who funds KEY TO CHANGE ↗
- Who funds Skookum Kids ↗
- Who funds Women's Accessible Medical Services PS ↗
- Who funds ONE HEART WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MORAN STATE PARK ↗
- Who funds MUSICIANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEPAL SEEDS ↗
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 · Medina Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Orcas Island Community Foundation · Real Progress Foundation · Artsfund · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Lagu 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.
- Transition House Inc — 39% 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.
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