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Larry Benaroya Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$8.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$27MHuman Services$1.2MArts & Culture$812kEducation$779kCivil Rights$613kPhilanthropy$532kInternational$155kFood & Nutrition$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+4 grants · $17M
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$8,645,422
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER$7,400,000
OVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE$500,000
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$300,000
COLLEGE SUCCESS FOUNDATION$50,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE$30,000
BELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$25,000
MUSEUM OF NW ART$15,000
BERTSCHI FUND$15,000
FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION$10,000
RAINIER SCHOLARS$10,000
ARBORETUM FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN MEDIA$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $781k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1k → 14%ANGEL BAND PROJECT: $18k → 11%WINLOCK-VADER FOODBANK: $5k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1k → 14%ANGEL BAND PROJECT: $5k → 11%WINLOCK-VADAR FOOD BANK: $5k → 12%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1k → 14%ANGEL BAND PROJECT: $5k → 11%WINLOCK-VADAR FOOD BANK: $5k → 12%ANGEL BAND PROJECT: $5k → 11%WINLOCK-VADAR FOOD BANK: $5k → 12%LIFEWIRE: $50k → 9%HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $14k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $50k → 9%HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $26k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $25k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $25k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $25k → 9%OVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE: $500k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
NY
OR
PA
CA
MO
MD
NC
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

12%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.7M · 33 repeat orgs$28M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
34

Total granted

$3.7M
$11M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+26%

Still filing today

67%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

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

  • OS
    OVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE
    4× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +180%
  • CS
    College Success Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $265k · revenue +93%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2023 · $251k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $10M · revenue 0%
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +253%
  • SB
    ST BARTH'S MEDICAL EQUIPMENT
    one grant, 2024 · $250k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Seattle Chapter

Arcs foundation advances science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding u.s. citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering and medical research.

Education
2
Uw Physicians Network

To improve the health of the public.

Education
3
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
4
Emergency Medical Services at the University of Washington
Health
5
The Seattle Academy of Arts & Sciences

Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.

Education
6
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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7
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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8
The Northwest School of the Arts Humanities and Environment

We offer an outstanding international college preparatory program for grades 6-12.

Education
9
Seattle Children's Foundation

Seattle children's foundation exists to improve the quality of health care services to infants, children, and adolescents through contributions to organizations providing health care services, research and education.

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10
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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11
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
12
Waldorf School Assoc of Seattle

The seattle waldorf school mission is: daily we strive to inspire learning, courage, and joy in the developing human being.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bellevue Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Greater Tacoma Christian Laymens Outreach. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealthcare Access & SupportJewish Community Organizati…Youth Education & Developme…Youth Arts & Creative Expre…Family Philanthropic Founda…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr11%33%35–55yr12%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%91%20–35yr11%3%35–55yr12%3%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
14%
12,231/86,509

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.

04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
34/48
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $8,645,422 · OtherPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient — $508,890 · Other+44 more — $1,741,860 · Other+44 morePROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $10,000,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION+2 more — $220,100 · PhilanthropyFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $7,400,000 · HealthFred Hutchinson Cancer Cent…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $300,000 · Health+6 more — $165,000 · HealthOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE — $1,020,000 · Human ServicesRwanda Girls Initiative — $151,070 · Human ServicesLifeWire — $50,000 · Human Services+5 more — $80,875 · Human ServicesCollege Success Foundation — $265,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $251,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $100,000 · EducationRAINIER SCHOLARS — $70,000 · EducationBELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $61,000 · EducationBERTSCHI SCHOOL — $27,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $500,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $10,000 · Civil RightsMuseum of Glass — $170,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $60,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NORTHWEST ART — $30,000 · Arts & CultureGAGE ACADEMY OF ART — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $12,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$10,896,172Philanthropy$10,220,100Health$7,865,000Human Services$1,301,945Education$784,000Civil Rights$510,000Arts & Culture$302,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION — $10,000,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center — $7,400,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOVERLAKE SERVICE LEAGUE — $1,020,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $500,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER — $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Success Foundation — $265,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $251,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE — $220,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMuseum of Glass — $170,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetRwanda Girls Initiative — $151,070 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMaris Place — $100,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBELLEVUE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $61,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetNORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $60,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLifeWire — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ANGEL BAND PROJECT — $33,125 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF NORTHWEST ART — $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGAGE ACADEMY OF ART — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBERTSCHI SCHOOL — $27,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGoodwill of the Olympics and Rainier Region — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF WASHINGTON STATE — $23,750 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetHolocaust Center For Humanity — $21,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL (DBA FRIENDS OF COSTCO GUILD) — $20,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWinlock-Vader Food Bank — $20,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetARBORETUM FOUNDATION — $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwest Parkinsons Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S THEATRE ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR NEW AMERICAN MEDIA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGREATER TACOMA CHRISTIAN LAYMENS OUTREACH — $5,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE THEATRE GROUP — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S RESOURCES OF OREGON — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHIDBEY ISLAND HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEATTLE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEND JEWISH SCHOOL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLWETHER HOUSING — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…Moccasin Lake Foundat…United Way of King Co…ArtsfundPuget Sound Energy Fo…Jewish Federation of …Lucky Seven FoundationLott FoundationSamis FoundationWyman Youth TrustGrousemont Foundation
Seattle FoundationWA36.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · United Way of King County · Artsfund · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · Lucky Seven Foundation · Lott Foundation · Samis Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Grousemont Foundation

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 Larry Benaroya Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Larry Benaroya Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Larry Benaroya 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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