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Laidir Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$525,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$72M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Laidir Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHealthPublic BenefitSocial ScienceFood & NutritionPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving19$3.6M63%
FY202312$2.5M75%
FY20229$2.2M22%
FY202110$2.4M30%
FY20209$2.4M0%
FY201911$2.0M45%
FY20188$1.8M88%
FY20172$1.3Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$4.9MEducation$4.4MEnvironment$4.2MPhilanthropy$2.2MPublic Benefit$990kScience & Tech$955kHealth$761kEmployment$700kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
DE
NC
DC
HI

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Laidir Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSightline Institute: $4,152,000 over 8y, 27% of budgetEffective Ventures Foundation USA Inc: $3,683,288 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetInnovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation: $2,350,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetVillage Enterprise Fund: $700,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetIssue One: $640,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetEffective Institutions Project Inc: $540,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetThe Good Food Institute Inc: $525,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Future Society Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNoora Health: $300,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPacific Forum International: $200,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $176,220 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOnly 7 Seconds: $150,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetLegal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCarnegie Endowment for International Peace: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNine Muses Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSemilla Nueva: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHalcyon Futures Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetThe Hack Foundation D/B/A Hack Club: $65,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFp21: $50,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetShamiri Institute Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCenter for Responsible Innovation Ltd: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFinemind: $16,625 over 1y, 10% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA23.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Founders Pledge Inc · Good Ventures Foundation · Mulago Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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How do I get to Laidir Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Laidir 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.

About Laidir Foundation

How much does Laidir Foundation give?
Laidir Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $4,037,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Laidir Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (25%), Education (22%), Environment (21%).
Who are Laidir Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sightline Institute ($4.2M), Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc ($3.7M), Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation ($2.4M).
Does Laidir Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Laidir Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Laidir Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Founders Pledge Inc, Good Ventures Foundation.
Where is Laidir Foundation based?
Laidir Foundation is based in WA.

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 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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