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Larson 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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$981kEducation$661kHuman Services$352kRecreation & Sports$219kArts & Culture$208kInternational$186kHealth$137kPhilanthropy$58kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$65,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$341k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$65,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $222k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%40 WINKS FOUNDATION: $50k → 6%OUR DAUGHTERS INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%CANVAS HEALTH: $10k → 6%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $30k → 14%CANVAS HEALTH: $5k → 6%DWELLING PLACE: $3k → 7%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $20k → 14%DWELLING PLACE: $3k → 7%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $5k → 14%THE DWELLING PLACE: $5k → 14%THE DWELLING PLACE: $2k → 14%BRYDGES CENTRE: $10k → 14%BRYDGES CENTRE: $10k → 14%PRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%40 WINKS FOUNDATION: $31k → 14%40 WINKS FOUNDATION: $9k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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AR
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NC
DC
OK
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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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 65 repeat orgs$665k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +57% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 65 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
61

Total granted

$2.7M
$600k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+57%

Still filing today

55%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationOther
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

  • TJ
    THE JOSHUA FUND
    5× · 2017–2021 · $220k · revenue +133%
  • AB
    AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER SKI FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $200k · revenue +104%
  • FR
    FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
    3× · 2017–2020 · $55k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • FS
    FRASER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • LI
    LIFE INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $57k · revenue +71%
  • CC
    COVENANT CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
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.

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Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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2
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
3
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
4
Christian Heritage Broadcastinginc

Chb's (praisefm) vision is to see every tribe and nation experience jesus together. our mission is simple: together we help people discover and worship jesus. more than a radio station, praisefm is a place where passionate lovers of jesus…

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5
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
6
Leadership Resources International

International missions: this organization is an international mission agency focusing on leadership development through teaching of the scriptures

Religion
7
North America Bible Institute

North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

Education
8
Probe Ministries International

To present the gospel by providing life-long opportunities to integrate faith and learning through balanced, biblically based scholarship, training people to love god by renewing their minds and equipping the church to engage the world for…

Religion
9
Bible Thinker Inc

Bible Thinker, Inc is a ministry dedicated to equipping people to think and live biblically. There are three main areas of teaching that we focus on:1. Teaching accurate theology based on exegeting the text of the Bible and confronting…

Religion
10
Redeemer City to City

Redeemer City to City (RCTC) exists to multiply churches and Christian leaders committed to a shared vision for gospel movements in the great cities of the world.

Religion
11
Intentional Life Media

Dedicated to igniting personal transformation by affirming faith, inspiring hope, and equipping individuals, to live an intentional life in christ.

Religion
12
Freedom in Christ Ministries

To provide resources, training, and continuing support to leaders in the us and around the world in order that they may help others find freedom in christ.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Servanteers International. 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

63 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. 63 of the 128 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
45/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CRU: $210,000 · OtherCRUPULSE INC: $140,000 · OtherPULSE INCFRASER SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherFRASER SCHOOLTRANS WORLD RADIO: $85,000 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $80,000 · OtherST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $65,000 · Other+78 more: $1,111,700 · Other+78 moreTHE JOSHUA FUND: $220,000 · ReligionTHE JOSHUA FU…RESOLUTE: $47,500 · ReligionRESOLUTEThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $31,000 · ReligionThe Christian…GOODWORD PARTNERSHIP: $30,000 · ReligionGOODWORD PART…Ratio Christi Inc: $25,000 · ReligionRatio Christi…+10 more: $35,500 · Religion+10 moreBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · EducationBETHEL UNIV…LIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $40,000 · EducationLIBERTY CLA…MINNEHAHA ACADEMY: $22,000 · EducationMINNEHAHA A…UNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $15,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · Education40 WINKS FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $55,000 · Human ServicesOur Daughters International: $25,000 · Human ServicesVOICE OF JUDAH ISRAEL INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesBRYDGES CENTRE: $20,000 · Human ServicesCANVAS HEALTH INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesThe Dwelling Place: $11,500 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN BIRKEBEINER SKI FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Recreation & SportsENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA: $110,000 · InternationalUS ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 · InternationalHEALING HAITI: $13,600 · InternationalFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $11,000 · InternationalECHO Inc: $7,000 · International+3 more: $9,500 · InternationalCANOPY GLOBAL FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 · HealthLIFE INTERNATIONAL: $56,748 · HealthMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $35,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Health+2 more: $4,000 · Health
Other$1,866,700Religion$389,000Education$337,000Human Services$246,500Recreation & Sports$200,000International$171,100Health$167,748

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBETHEL UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOSHUA FUND: $220,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN BIRKEBEINER SKI FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA: $110,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budget40 WINKS FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetCANOPY GLOBAL FOUNDATION INC: $65,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetLIFE INTERNATIONAL: $56,748 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRESOLUTE: $47,500 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF CREATIVES: $45,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetLIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHAPEL HILL ACADEMY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMinnesota Teen Challenge Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Christian Broadcasting Network Inc: $31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWORD PARTNERSHIP: $30,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetRatio Christi Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetOur Daughters International: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetVOICE OF JUDAH ISRAEL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE BIBLE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEHAHA ACADEMY: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUS ISRAEL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRYDGES CENTRE: $20,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCANVAS HEALTH INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRIVER FALLS PREGNANCY HELPLINE: $15,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetThe Legacy Imperative Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHWESTERN - ST PAUL: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING HAITI: $13,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMANUSCRIPT RESEARCH GROUP: $12,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetThe Dwelling Place: $11,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WHITE BEAR LAKE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetFRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK LEGEROS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHEHOPELINE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBreakthrough Twin Cities: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMBASSADORS FOR BUSINESS: $8,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetECHO Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOLIVE TREE MINISTRIES: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERVANTEERS INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN HOMES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIRONWOOD SPRINGS CHRISTIAN RANCH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMF INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds BETHEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE JOSHUA FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER SKI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA ↗
  • Who funds 40 WINKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANOPY GLOBAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds RESOLUTE ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF CREATIVES ↗
  • Who funds LIBERTY CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CHAPEL HILL ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds GOODWORD PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds Ratio Christi Inc ↗
  • Who funds Our Daughters International ↗
  • Who funds VOICE OF JUDAH ISRAEL INC ↗

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.

Christian Community F…Servant FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Signatry Charitab…The Minneapolis Found…Nicholson Family Foun…Mightycause Charitabl…Natl Christian Charit…Thrivent Charitable I…The Covenant Foundati…Kahr Foundation-ImaAmerican Gift Fund
Christian Community Foundation IncCO25.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Nicholson Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · The Covenant Foundation · Kahr Foundation-Ima · American Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Larson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Larson 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 128 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home