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Larson Family Foundation at a glance

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Larson Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$340k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$330k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Philanthropy$354kHuman Services$35kHousing & Shelter$28kInternational$19kReligion$15kEducation$10kHealth$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $250k+1 grant · $330k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHN AND CYNTHIA LARSON DAF$330,329
LEGACY HEALTH DBA CARES NORTHWEST$5,000
GREATER GOOD CHARITIES$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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%LIFEWIRE: $2k → 9%HOPELINK: $7k → 9%HOPELINK: $6k → 9%HOPELINK: $5k → 9%HOPELINK: $5k → 9%HOPELINK: $4k → 9%HOPELINK: $4k → 9%HOPELINK: $2k → 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.
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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$105k · 6 repeat orgs$356k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

$105k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+14%

Still filing today

67%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationInternationalRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • H
    HOPELINK
    7× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +74%
  • TP
    Transition Projects Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $28k · revenue +99%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $9k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • WR
    WORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +62%
  • JR
    Jubilee REACH
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +14%
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
Real Escape From the Sex Trade

We exist to provide pathways to freedom, safety, and hope for victims of sex trafficking and people involved in the sex trade.

Crime & Legal
2
Sheltercare

Sheltercare offers a variety of housing and support services for people who are homeless or those facing homelessness with a committed focus on the community's most vulnerable individuals dealing with psychiatric disabilities, acquired…

Housing & Shelter
3
Denver Rescue Mission

The denver rescue mission is changing lives in the name of christ by meeting people at their physical and spiritual points of need with the goal of returning them to society as productive, self-sufficient citizens.

Human Services
4
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
5
Home for Refugees Usa

To empower refugees to sustain new homes find new hope and fully experience life. We do this so that every refugee will have a home that supports safety freedom and dignity. What enables us to do this is the guiding belief that within…

Human Services
6
Jewish Family Service

Mission: Inspired by their history and values, Jewish Family Service supports the needs of Jewish individuals and families, refugees and immigrants, and the broader community to achieve well-being, health, and stability. From food security…

Human Services
7
Survivors Inc

Survivor's ince. provides responsive, comprehensive, confidential and client driven and client focused services to those experiencing sexual abuse, domestic violence, human trafficking and stalking. the services provided include: a fully…

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8
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
9
Church World Service Inc

Church world service, inc. is a private, voluntary faith-based organization with 37 member communions that transformscommunities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.

International
10
Lifeline Connections

Through superior customer service, high quality programs, and well-trained and dedicated staff, we inspire hope and lifesaving changes for people affected by substance use and mental health conditions.

Health
11
Hope Services Hawaii Inc

Hope services hawaii provides housing-focused interventions to end homelessness through a continuum of services, including homeless prevention and diversion, mobile outreach, medical respite, street medicine, in- shelter medical attention,…

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12
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Good Charities; the most unlike its peers is Bustin Barriers. 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

10 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. 10 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHN AND CYNTHIA LARSON DAF: $330,329 · OtherJOHN AND CYNTHIA LARSON DAFTransition Projects Inc: $28,000 · OtherTransition Projects IncPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $15,000 · Other+2 more: $12,500 · OtherHOPELINK: $33,000 · Human ServicesLifeWire: $1,500 · Human ServicesHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $14,000 · PhilanthropyGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $10,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 · InternationalJubilee REACH: $5,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationBUSTIN BARRIERS: $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$385,829Human Services$34,500Philanthropy$24,000International$19,000Education$10,000Recreation & Sports$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOPELINK: $33,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTransition Projects Inc: $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJubilee REACH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifeWire: $1,500 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 67%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Transition Projects Inc: 29% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 14 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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