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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 it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% 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
02FY2022 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 32 grants below total $117,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $219,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $102,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
ShelterCare$5,000
Northwest Youth Corps$5,000
Lane Community College Foundation$5,000
Friends of Buford Park & Mt Pisgah$5,000
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed$5,000
Womenspace$4,000
Eugene Masonic Cemetery Association$3,500
Willamette Farm and Food Coalition$3,000
Family Relief Nursery$2,000
FISH$2,000
Community Food for Creswell$2,000
Community Alliance of Lane County$2,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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%
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.

03Its 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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eugene Mission Inc; 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.
03the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 39 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF EUGENE: $6,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN…LOOKING GLASS COMMUNITY SERVICES: $6,000 · Human ServicesLOOKING G…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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 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 budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOTTAGE THEATRE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 tightly interlocked group: 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

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.
04Through Plinth

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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 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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