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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.

$58k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$40kEnvironment$33kReligion$31kPhilanthropy$30kHuman Services$28kRecreation & Sports$22kInternational$19kCrime & Legal$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$27k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$8,000
MARY'S PLACE$6,000
NWIRP NW IMMIGRANT RIGHTS$5,500
WASHINGTON NATIONAL PARKS FUND$5,000
HAWAIIAN AUDUBON SOCIETY$5,000
NEXT$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
NEPAL SEEDS$2,000
TYONEK GROWN CONSERVATION DISTRICT$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,500
NATIONAL IMMIGRANTS JUSTICE CENTER$1,500
NORTH CASCADES INSTITUTE$1,250
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ONE HEART WORLDWIDE: $3k → 11%ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 10%SKOOKUM KIDS: $3k → 12%EL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $3k → 9%ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $3k → 10%REAL CHANGE: $1k → 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

AK
ME
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
CO
MD
HI
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$200k · 29 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
25

Total granted

$200k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+18%

Still filing today

69%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsInternationalCrime & LegalOther
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

  • MP
    Maris Place
    5× · 2021–2025 · $21k · revenue +42%
  • HA
    HAWAII AUDUBON SOCIETY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +47%
  • AM
    ALOHA MEDICAL MISSION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $14k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • SO
    SAIL ORCAS - A SAILING EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +159%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • CS
    CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICESGNF
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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
Washington Filmworks

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…

Community Improvement
2
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
3
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
4
Friends of Seattle Waterfront

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.

Community Improvement
5
Discover Your Northwest

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.

Recreation & Sports
6
Cowiche Canyon Conservancy

Protecting our shrub-steppe and connecting people to this vanishing landscape.

—
7
Washington Wildlife & Recreation Coalition

Creating a greener, healthier, more equitable, and better Washington for all through community outreach, network building, and advocacy for conservation and outdoor recreation funding.

—
8
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
9
Fsc I&P

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.…

Philanthropy
10
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
11
Rogue Climate

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 &…

Education
12
Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center

Provide and promote constructive and collaborative approaches to conflict resolution through mediation, training, facilitation, supervised visits and community education.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Immigrant Rights Project; 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.
04the grantee network

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
25/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $13,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNWIRP NW IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: $10,500 · OtherNWIRP NW IMMIGRANT RIGHTSSILVER CREEK FELLOWSHIP: $10,000 · OtherSILVER CREEK FELLOWSHIPWASHINGTON NATIONAL PARKS FUND: $8,000 · OtherLEGAL VOICE: $9,800 · OtherLEGAL VOICEFREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET SOUND: $6,000 · OtherALOHA MEDICAL MISSION: $13,600 · OtherALOHA MEDICAL MISSIONSUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH: $6,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF YOUTH: $5,500 · OtherSAIL ORCAS - A SAILING EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,100 · Other+37 more: $64,650 · Other+37 moreORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $24,800 · PhilanthropyORCAS ISLAND …FRIENDS OF LOPEZ ISLAND POOL: $9,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF LO…HAWAII AUDUBON SOCIETY: $17,500 · EnvironmentNorth Cascades Institute: $3,750 · EnvironmentMaris Place: $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEXT: $19,500 · ReligionORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $9,000 · Human ServicesSkookum Kids: $3,000 · Human ServicesONE HEART WORLDWIDE: $2,500 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $2,500 · Human ServicesREAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $1,000 · Human ServicesMakeshift: $11,500 · Arts & CultureKEY TO CHANGE: $3,500 · Arts & CultureNorth Star Dance Foundation North Star Ballet: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBREMERTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $800 · Arts & Culture
Other$152,150Philanthropy$33,800Environment$21,250Youth Development$21,000Religion$19,500Human Services$18,000Arts & Culture$16,800

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 budgetORCAS ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $24,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMaris Place: $21,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetNEXT: $19,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetHAWAII AUDUBON SOCIETY: $17,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetALOHA MEDICAL MISSION: $13,600 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMakeshift: $11,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetLEGAL VOICE: $9,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF LOPEZ ISLAND POOL: $9,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $9,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFREEDOM EDUCATION PROJECT PUGET SOUND: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSUNRISE COMMUNITY HEALTH: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOUTH: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL ORCAS - A SAILING EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,100 over 1y, 19% of budgetWASHINGTON'S NATIONAL PARK FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Cascades Institute: $3,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKEY TO CHANGE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSkookum Kids: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Accessible Medical Services PS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetONE HEART WORLDWIDE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEL CENTRO DE LA RAZA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF MORAN STATE PARK: $2,300 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSICIANS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEPAL SEEDS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWashington State Parks Foundation: $1,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREAL CHANGE HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Star Dance Foundation North Star Ballet: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBREMERTON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSKAGIT HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $400 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.

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 FoundationMedina FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…Orcas Island Communit…Real Progress Foundat…ArtsfundPuget Sound Energy Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…
Seattle FoundationWA26.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • Transition House Inc: 39% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lagu Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lagu 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 62 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home