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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
Itemized grants FY2022
32
Organizations funded FY2022
13%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$117k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
32 to 32
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$7.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 13% of the organizations Larson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
Arts & CultureHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202232$117k13%
FY202132$120k6%
FY202032$107kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Eugene Mission Inc$22,00030%
Ecotrust$16,50030%
Lane Community College Foundation$15,00030%
Friends of Buford Park and Mt Pisgah$13,50031%
Sheltercare$13,00030%
Northwest Youth Corps$12,50030%
Womenspace$12,50030%
Bridgeway House$10,00020%
Community Food for Creswell$9,00036%
Willamette Farm and Food Coalition$8,00036%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($132k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Larson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Eugene: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLooking Glass Community Services: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Alliance of Lane County: $6,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLane Independent Living Alliance: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRogue Farm Corps: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEugene Public Library Foundation: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEugene Opera: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRose Children's Theatre: $3,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSouth Lane Family Nursery Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOregon Contemporary Theatre: $2,000 over 2y, 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 budgetEnvironmental Law Alliance Worldwide: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCottage Theatre: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

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

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.

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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.

About Larson Family Foundation

How much does Larson Family Foundation give?
Larson Family Foundation reported 32 itemized grants totaling $117,000, out of $219,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does Larson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (4%), Environment (3%), Education (2%).
Who are Larson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Eugene Mission Inc ($22k), Ecotrust ($17k), Lane Community College Foundation ($15k).
Does Larson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Larson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Larson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Chambers Family Foundation, The Woodard Family Foundation.
Where is Larson Family Foundation based?
Larson Family Foundation is based in OR.

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 39 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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