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Laird Norton Family 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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
126
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$5.3MArts & Culture$2.5MHuman Services$888kPhilanthropy$618kYouth Development$552kCrime & Legal$491kEducation$350kHealth$306kOther$0
02FY2024 · 126 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k62 grants · $124k
  • $10k–50k63 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SOLUTIONS PROJECT$50,000
MINNESOTA LAND TRUST$45,000
VALLEY STEWARDSHIP NETWORK$45,000
ARTS IMPACT$40,000
TRUCKEE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL$40,000
RSF SOCIAL FINANCE$40,000
LEGAL COUNSEL FOR YOUTH & CHILDREN$35,000
UNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION$35,000
ECOTRUST$35,000
CHOOSE180$35,000
EARTHCORPS$35,000
MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY$35,000
BONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION$35,000
QUIVIRA COALITION$35,000
CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION$30,000
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 (FY17–24, $991k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $6k → 10%SMYAL: $6k → 14%WASHINGTON GORGE ACTION PROGRAMS: $5k → 10%SAY SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%SAN DIEGO REFUGEE TUTORING: $6k → 11%RYTHER: $25k → 9%RYTHER: $25k → 9%RYTHER: $25k → 9%RYTHER: $25k → 9%RYTHER: $20k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9k → 10%RYTHER: $20k → 9%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%RYTHER: $15k → 9%NEXUS YOUTH & FAMILIES: $20k → 9%NEXUS YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $20k → 9%NEXUS YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $13k → 9%KENT YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 9%KENT YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 9%KENT YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 9%POWERFUL VOICES: $25k → 9%KENT YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 9%POWERFUL VOICES: $25k → 9%KENT YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 9%POWERFUL VOICES: $25k → 9%KENT YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 9%KENT YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 9%POWERFUL VOICES: $25k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $25k → 9%POWERFUL VOICES: $25k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $25k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $25k → 9%POWERFUL VOICES: $15k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $20k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $15k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $15k → 9%NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $6k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $35k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $35k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $35k → 9%MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $25k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $25k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $25k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $15k → 9%THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $10k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $25k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $25k → 9%NEXUS YOUTH AND FAMILIES (A PROGRAM OF YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE): $20k → 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
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
SD
IA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
VA
AZ
NM
AR
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 171 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

171 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2024, 116 since wound down; 39 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

171
210

Total granted

$10M
$940k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+28%

Still filing today

81%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $343k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TR
    Truckee River Watershed Council
    8× · 2017–2024 · $383k · revenue +212%
  • LL
    LONG LIVE THE KINGS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $349k · revenue +126%
  • RB
    Rogue Basin Partnership
    4× · 2017–2020 · $320k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • PN
    PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST
    one grant, 2020 · $181k · revenue -84%
  • TU
    The University Foundation California State University Chico
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -18%
  • KC
    KING COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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
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
2
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
3
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment
4
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
5
Great Peninsula Conservancy

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

Environment
6
Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment
7
Clean Energy Transition Institute

The Clean Energy Transition Institute (CETI) is an independent, nonpartisan research and analysis nonprofit whose mission is to accelerate an equitable clean energy transition in the Northwest.

Education
8
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment
10
Nw Energy Coalition

The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…

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11
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
12
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow; the most unlike its peers is Firehouse Community Arts Center of Chicago. 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

310 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. 310 of the 434 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)
79
Early backer (in before they grew)
299/310
Grantees still filing
208/310
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Truckee River Watershed Council: $383,000 · EnvironmentTruckee River Watershed CouncilRogue Basin Partnership: $320,000 · EnvironmentRogue Basin PartnershipSightline Institute: $295,500 · EnvironmentSightline InstituteVALLEY STEWARDSHIP NETWORK INC: $247,000 · EnvironmentVALLEY STEWARDSHIP NETWORK INCKINNICKINNIC RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $243,500 · EnvironmentKINNICKINNIC RIVER LAND TRUST INCWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $240,000 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUC…BONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION: $220,500 · EnvironmentBONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATIONMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $197,000 · EnvironmentMINNESOTA LAND TRUSTURBAN FOREST CARBON REGISTRY: $172,500 · EnvironmentSolutions Project Inc: $165,500 · EnvironmentCenter for Diversity and the Environment: $134,000 · Environment+25 more: $957,500 · Environment+25 moreUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION: $210,315 · OtherUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATIO…AS YOU SOW: $198,000 · OtherPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST: $180,815 · OtherThe Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: $158,000 · OtherSEATTLE OFFICE OF ARTS & CULTURE (CREATIVE ADVANTAGE FISCAL SPONSOR THE SEA: $146,000 · OtherLONG LIVE THE KINGS: $349,000 · OtherLONG LIVE THE KINGSCHOOSE 180: $189,200 · OtherSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $150,767 · OtherCARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE: $231,000 · OtherCARBON CYCLE INSTITUTETeamChild: $148,000 · Other+90 more: $1,969,588 · Other+90 moreARTS IMPACT: $306,000 · Arts & CultureARTS IMPACTEXPLORING THE ARTS INC: $245,000 · Arts & CultureEXPLORING THE …Arts Corps: $244,500 · Arts & CultureArts CorpsWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $158,000 · Arts & CultureWOLF TRAP FOUN…AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $147,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CONSE…JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $140,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY…Regional Arts & Culture Council: $100,000 · Arts & CultureRegional Arts …INGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO: $63,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more: $110,675 · Arts & Culture+8 moreTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $208,750 · Human ServicesTHE MOCKI…Powerful Voices: $168,500 · Human ServicesPowerful …RYTHER: $157,500 · Human ServicesRYTHERKENT YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $140,000 · Human ServicesKENT YOUT…NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $131,000 · Human ServicesNEW HORIZ…NEXUS YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $73,500 · Human ServicesNEXUS YOU…THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SEATTLE (6871): $50,500 · Human Services+11 more: $73,250 · Human Services+11 moreArts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall: $200,500 · EducationCHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION: $198,000 · EducationThe University Foundation California State University Chico: $50,000 · EducationNew Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc: $35,000 · EducationNICARAGUAN EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER: $26,400 · EducationSan Francisco Education Fund: $20,000 · Education+8 more: $52,625 · EducationLEGAL COUNSEL FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN: $281,500 · Crime & LegalAtlantic Street Center: $163,500 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $22,500 · Crime & LegalEarthcorps: $268,500 · InternationalTHE THIRST PROJECT: $40,500 · International+10 more: $88,625 · International
Environment$3,576,000Other$3,930,685Arts & Culture$1,514,175Human Services$1,003,000Education$582,525Crime & Legal$467,500International$397,625

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTruckee River Watershed Council: $383,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetLONG LIVE THE KINGS: $349,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetRogue Basin Partnership: $320,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetARTS IMPACT: $306,000 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetSightline Institute: $295,500 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetLEGAL COUNSEL FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN: $281,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetEarthcorps: $268,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetVALLEY STEWARDSHIP NETWORK INC: $247,000 over 6y, 27% of budgetEXPLORING THE ARTS INC: $245,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetArts Corps: $244,500 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetKINNICKINNIC RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $243,500 over 6y, 20% of budgetWASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $240,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE: $231,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetBONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION: $220,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION: $210,315 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY: $208,750 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetArts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall: $200,500 over 6y, 19% of budgetCHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION: $198,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetAS YOU SOW: $198,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMINNESOTA LAND TRUST: $197,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHOOSE 180: $189,200 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST: $180,815 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN FOREST CARBON REGISTRY: $172,500 over 8y, 13% of budgetPowerful Voices: $168,500 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetSolutions Project Inc: $165,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetAtlantic Street Center: $163,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetThe Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: $158,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $158,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRYTHER: $157,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSEATTLE FOUNDATION: $150,767 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTeamChild: $148,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION: $147,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $140,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKENT YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $140,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Diversity and the Environment: $134,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetNEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES: $131,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetECOTRUST: $129,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFront and Centered: $118,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetOccidental Arts and Ecology Center: $117,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetQUIVIRA COALITION INC: $110,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetWATER FOUNDATION: $102,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRegional Arts & Culture Council: $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNAVOS: $86,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEXUS YOUTH AND FAMILIES: $73,500 over 4y, 20% of budgetCENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE: $65,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetINGENUITY INCORPORATED CHICAGO: $63,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetThe Mountains to Sound Greenway Trust: $55,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBUILDING CHANGES: $53,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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.

  • Who funds Truckee River Watershed Council ↗
  • Who funds LONG LIVE THE KINGS ↗
  • Who funds Rogue Basin Partnership ↗
  • Who funds ARTS IMPACT ↗
  • Who funds Sightline Institute ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL COUNSEL FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Earthcorps ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY STEWARDSHIP NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds EXPLORING THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Arts Corps ↗
  • Who funds KINNICKINNIC RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON CONSERVATION ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds CARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds BONNEVILLE ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED INDIANS OF ALL TRIBES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MOCKINGBIRD SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Arts For The Schools dba Fox Cultural Hall ↗
  • Who funds CHICAGO ARTS PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds AS YOU SOW ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CHOOSE 180 ↗
  • Who funds PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds URBAN FOREST CARBON REGISTRY ↗
  • Who funds Powerful Voices ↗
  • Who funds Solutions Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds Atlantic Street Center ↗
  • Who funds The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds RYTHER ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TeamChild ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds KENT YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Center for Diversity and the Environment ↗
  • Who funds NEW HORIZONS MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds ECOTRUST ↗
  • Who funds Front and Centered ↗
  • Who funds Occidental Arts and Ecology Center ↗

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.

Medina FoundationSeattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Raikes FoundationThe Satterberg Founda…United Way of King Co…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Lucky Seven FoundationGrousemont FoundationThe Bullitt FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…Real Progress Foundat…
Medina FoundationWA72.2× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Medina Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Raikes Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · United Way of King County · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · The Bullitt Foundation · School's Out Washington · Real Progress 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 Laird Norton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laird Norton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Bonneville Environmental Foundation: 100% of income from government
  • Deschutes River Conservancy: 100% of income from government
  • Rogue River Watershed Council: 94% of income from government
  • Willamette Partnership: 76% of income from government
  • Plummer Youth Promise Inc: 64% of income from government
  • WaterWatch of Oregon: 61% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Deschutes Land Trust: 46% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Ecotrust: 14% of income from government
  • VertueLab: 12% of income from government
  • Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians: 10% of income from government
  • Regional Arts & Culture Council: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
55report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
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

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How do I get to Laird Norton Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Laird Norton Family 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 434 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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