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Larson Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$219k
Granted FY2022
32
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Philanthropy$70kEnvironment$59kEducation$39kHousing & Shelter$35kHuman Services$33kFood & Nutrition$30kArts & Culture$17kHealth$17kOther$0
02FY2022 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 32 grants below total $117,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $219,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $102,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k30 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Creswell First Foundation$30,000
Eugene Mission$12,000
Pleasant Hill Education Foundation$8,000
Friends of Buford Park & Mt Pisgah$5,000
Northwest Youth Corps$5,000
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed$5,000
Lane Community College Foundation$5,000
ShelterCare$5,000
Womenspace$4,000
Eugene Masonic Cemetery Association$3,500
Willamette Farm and Food Coalition$3,000
Family Relief Nursery$2,000
Community Food for Creswell$2,000
NW Center for Alternative to Pesticides$2,000
Community Alliance of Lane County$2,000
02Your 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$332k · 32 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
2

Total granted

$332k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+463%

Still filing today

69%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
Human ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterEnvironmentEducationEmploymentOther

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

  • EUGENE MISSION INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $22k · revenue +35%
  • ECOTRUST
    3× · 2020–2022 · $17k · revenue +20%
  • LC
    LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2022 · $15k · revenue +170%

Funded once

  • EC
    EUGENE CIVIC ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +463%
  • EL
    ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +79%

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

03Your 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
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
2
Lane Community College Education Association

Lane Community College Education Association is the union that represents 200 full-time and 375 part-time faculty members at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. LCCEA is an affiliated unit of the Oregon Education Association (OEA)…

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3
Collaborative Economic Development

To accelerate inclusive economic prosperity in lane county, oregon

Employment
4
Lane Workforce Partnership

To meet the workforce needs of employers and individuals through partnerships and innovations in lane county, oregon.

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5
LArche Portland

At l'arche portland people with and without developmental disabilities create home and build community together. we nurture long-term mutual relationships that reveal the gifts of people with developmental disabilities. in doing so we…

Human Services
6
Eugene Area Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the eugene area chamber of commerce is to promote a healthy local economy by influencing business success, public policy, and community development.

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7
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
8
Southern Oregon Land Conservancy Inc

To conserve and enhance land in southern oregon to sustain our human and natural communities forever.

Environment
9
Our Village Gardens

Our village gardens brings a spirit of hope to the people by growing and sharing food, learning and teaching skills, and empowering community leadership.(continued on schedule o)our village gardens leverages community organizing, skill…

Food & Nutrition
10
Springfield Eugene Tenant Association

Springfield eugene tenant association is dedicated to renters' rights and interests. we believe that housing rights are human rights and that affordable and accessible housing are the foundation of any strong community.

Housing & Shelter
11
Catholic Community Services of Lane County Inc

Responding to christ's message to love our neighbors as ourselves, catholic community services offers immediate help by providing food and other assistance to anyone in need and seeks to instill hope by helping lane county individuals and…

Human Services
12
Lane County Historical Society

To spark learning, reflection, and inspiration through diverse cultural programing that promotes historical understanding, equity and empathy.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rogue Farm Corps. 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 backsteadyFaith-Based Homeless Servic…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Food Pantries and AssistanceCommunity Theater CompaniesHospice and Palliative CareDomestic Violence and Sexua…Ymca Community CentersPublic Library SupportClassical Music OrchestrasEnvironmental Advocacy and …Community FoundationsYouth Sports Programs
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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr12%48%35–55yr16%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr19%4%10–20yr19%38%20–35yr12%42%35–55yr16%16%55yr+

The field is 20% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/30
the rest of the field
11%
2,771/25,401

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.

03the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 39 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
24/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Creswell First Foundation — $68,000 · OtherCreswell First FoundationCoast Fork Willamette Watershed — $20,500 · OtherCoast Fork Willamette WatershedECOTRUST — $16,500 · OtherECOTRUSTFISH — $11,000 · OtherPleasant Hill Education Foundation — $10,000 · OtherCreswell Public Library — $9,000 · OtherWILLAMETTE FARM AND FOOD COALITION — $8,000 · OtherFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY — $8,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOOD FOR CRESWELL — $9,000 · Other+19 more — $65,000 · Other+19 moreEUGENE MISSION INC — $22,000 · Housing & ShelterEUGENE MISS…SHELTERCARE — $13,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTERCAREWOMENSPACE — $12,500 · Human ServicesWOMENSPAC…LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES — $6,000 · Human ServicesLOOKING G…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EUGENE — $6,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN…LANE INDEPENDENT LIVING ALLIANCE — $5,000 · Human ServicesLANE INDE…FRIENDS OF BUFORD PARK AND MT PISGAH — $13,500 · EnvironmentROGUE FARM CORPS — $5,000 · EnvironmentLANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · EducationNORTHWEST YOUTH CORPS — $12,500 · EmploymentBridgeway House — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$225,000Housing & Shelter$35,000Human Services$29,500Environment$18,500Education$15,000Employment$12,500Youth Development$10,000

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEUGENE MISSION INC — $22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetECOTRUST — $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF BUFORD PARK AND MT PISGAH — $13,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSHELTERCARE — $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWEST YOUTH CORPS — $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENSPACE — $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBridgeway House — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD FOR CRESWELL — $9,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetWILLAMETTE FARM AND FOOD COALITION — $8,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetFOOD FOR LANE COUNTY — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEUGENE MASONIC CEMETERY ASSOCIATION — $6,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSPONSORS INC — $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE OF LANE COUNTY — $6,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EUGENE — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROGUE FARM CORPS — $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLANE INDEPENDENT LIVING ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEUGENE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROSE CHILDREN'S THEATRE — $3,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetEUGENE OPERA — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH LANE FAMILY NURSERY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON CONTEMPORARY THEATRE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOTTAGE GROVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Very Little Theater Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEARTS FOR HOSPICE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOTTAGE THEATRE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE — $1,000 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.

The Oregon Community …Chambers Family Found…The Woodard Family Fo…The Autzen FoundationUnited Way of Lane Co…The Ford Family Found…McKay Family Foundati…Faye & Lucille Stewar…Reed Family Foundatio…Lane Community Health…PeaceHealthMeyer Memorial Trust
The Oregon Community FoundationOR47.1× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Chambers Family Foundation · The Woodard Family Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · United Way of Lane County · The Ford Family Foundation · McKay Family Foundation · Faye & Lucille Stewart Foundation · Reed Family Foundation Inc · Lane Community Health Council · PeaceHealth · Meyer Memorial Trust

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Larson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Larson 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 39 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $287k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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