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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 FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$525k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.7M
$100,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE$525,000
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$500,000
EFFECTIVE INSTITUTIONS PROJECT$390,000
INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION (IPA)$350,000
TECHCONGRESS$340,000
Individual grant recipient$300,000
FOUNDERS PLEDGE$250,000
EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC$205,000
VILLAGE ENTERPRISE$200,000
PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND$160,000
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE$100,000
LEGAL ADVOCATES FOR SAFE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY$100,000
SAFE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FORUM$100,000
SEMILLA NUEVA$75,000
HALCYON FUTURES INC$70,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LONGVIEW PHILANTHROPY: $300k → 10%THE FUTURE SOCIETY INC: $300k → 16%VILLAGE ENTERPRISE: $200k → 7%PACIFIC FORUM INTERNATIONAL: $200k → 9%EFFECTIVE INSTITUTIONS PROJECT: $390k → 9%FOUNDERS PLEDGE: $250k → 17%THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE: $150k → 14%CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM USA: $700k → 21%INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION (IPA): $450k → 12%VANGUARD CHARITABLE: $500k → 7%SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE: $625k → 9%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $500k → 11%PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND: $160k → 11%CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM USA: $600k → 10%EFFECTIVE INSTITUTIONS PROJECT: $150k → 9%FOUNDERS PLEDGE: $250k → 17%INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION (IPA): $350k → 12%SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE: $525k → 9%80000 HOURS: $400k → 10%EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC: $540k → 10%FOUNDERS PLEDGE: $250k → 17%INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION (IPA): $350k → 12%SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE: $525k → 9%80000 HOURS: $300k → 10%CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM USA: $500k → 10%SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE: $525k → 9%FORETHOUGHT FOUNDATION: $200k → 10%EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC: $300k → 10%INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION (IPA): $350k → 14%SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE: $525k → 9%EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC: $250k → 10%TECHCONGRESS: $340k → 14%SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE: $500k → 9%EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC: $205k → 10%REBUILD CONGRESS INITIATIVE: $250k → 14%SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE: $475k → 9%CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM USAFORETHOUGHT FOUNDATION: $200k → 10%ISSUE ONE: $250k → 14%SIGHTLINE INSTITUTE: $452k → 9%CENTRE FOR EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM USA: $200k → 10%ISSUE ONE: $200k → 14%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER: $176k → 9%THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE-DEVELOPMENT MEDIA INTL: $225k → 10%INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION (IPA): $350k → 14%THE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE-DEVELOPMENT MEDIA INTL: $200k → 10%INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION (IPA): $250k → 14%GIVEWELL (THE CLEAR FUND)-DEVELOPMENT MEDIA INTL: $175k → 10%INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION (IPA): $250k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
DE
NC
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 76% of Laidir Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 1%.

Laidir Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 13 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +86% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
15

Total granted

$15M
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+13%

Still filing today

69%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthPublic BenefitScience & TechEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SI
    Sightline Institute
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +95% · 27% of their budget
  • EV
    EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +86%
  • IF
    INNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FUTURE SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +57%
  • RC
    REBUILD CONGRESS INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • PF
    PACIFIC FORUM INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +5%
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
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
2
The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International
3
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
4
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
5
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment
6
Finreglab Inc

Finreglab is a d.c.-based research organization working at the intersection of financial innovation and public policy. our mission is to advance technology and data use to help people and small businesses manage their financial lives,…

Science & Tech
7
Responsible Innovation Labs Inc

Building infrastructure that helps high-performing startups drive competitive advantage while advancing human flourishing and avoiding downstream harms to people, communities, and planet.

Science & Tech
8
Partnership On Ai to Benefit People and Society

Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.

Science & Tech
9
Partnership for Global Security

The partnership for global security (pgs) is a recognized international leader and innovator in nuclear and transnational security policy developing actionable responses to 21st century security challenges by engaging international,…

International
10
Global Financial Integrity

Global Financial Integrity works to curtail illicit financial flows by conducting groundbreaking research, promoting pragmatic policy solutions, and advising governments.

International
11
Future Tech Insights Inc

The organization provides public education on artificial intelligence.

Public Benefit
12
Portulans Institute

To develop cross-community knowledge and dialogue on how people, technology and innovation contribute to sustainable and inclusive growth; to inform policy-makers, by producing independent, rigorous metrics and data-based research; to…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Effective Ventures Foundation Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nine Muses Foundation. 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

28 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. 28 of the 43 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
18/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC: $3,683,288 · EducationEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUND…The Trustees of Princeton University: $500,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeto…Sightline Institute: $4,152,000 · EnvironmentSightline Institute80000 HOURS: $700,000 · Other80000 HOURSTHE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE-DEVELOPMENT MEDIA INTL: $675,000 · OtherTHE LIFE YOU CAN SAVE-DEVEL…TECHCONGRESS: $340,000 · OtherTECHCONGRESSIndividual grant recipient: $300,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGIVEWELL (THE CLEAR FUND): $300,000 · OtherGIVEWELL (THE CLEAR FUND)REBUILD CONGRESS INITIATIVE: $250,000 · OtherFORETHOUGHT FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherGIVEWELL (THE CLEAR FUND)-DEVELOPMENT MEDIA INTL: $175,000 · OtherNOORA HEALTH: $300,000 · OtherNOORA HEALTHFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $176,220 · OtherTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $525,000 · OtherTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC+13 more: $768,409 · Other+13 moreINNOVATIONS FOR POVERTY ACTION A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,350,000 · Social ScienceINNOVATIONS F…FOUNDERS PLEDGE INC: $750,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $500,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $160,000 · PhilanthropyHALCYON FUTURES INC: $70,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND: $700,000 · InternationalTHE FUTURE SOCIETY INC: $300,000 · InternationalPACIFIC FORUM INTERNATIONAL: $200,000 · InternationalCARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE: $100,000 · InternationalSEMILLA NUEVA: $75,000 · InternationalFAMILY EMPOWERMENT MEDIA INC: $52,000 · InternationalFP21: $50,000 · InternationalISSUE ONE: $640,000 · Public BenefitEFFECTIVE INSTITUTIONS PROJECT INC: $540,000 · Public BenefitNINE MUSES FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Public Benefit
Education$4,183,288Environment$4,152,000Other$4,709,629Social Science$2,350,000Philanthropy$1,530,000International$1,477,000Public Benefit$1,280,000

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 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 budgetFOUNDERS PLEDGE INC: $750,000 over 3y, 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 budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $160,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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
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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Founders Pledge IncGood Ventures Foundat…Mulago FoundationWellspring Philanthro…The David and Lucile …Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Laidir Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laidir Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 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.

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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