· Private foundation
Larson Foundation co Susan Larson
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ICA Food Shelf | $10,000 |
| Orchard Place | $8,500 |
| Iowa Arts in Education DBA Artforce Iowa | $8,500 |
| The People Fund | $7,500 |
| The Ozark Natural Science Center | $7,500 |
| SOAR After School Program | $7,500 |
| Partnerships for Children | $7,500 |
| TASC | $5,000 |
| Heritage High School PTO | $5,000 |
| Rise School | $5,000 |
| Davie Pregnancy Care Center | $5,000 |
| Mind & Spirit Counseling Center | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DPDAVIE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC6× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +253%
- ICINTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +20%
- FPFamily Promise of Davie County4× · 2017–2023 · $26k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- BIBEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +60%
- FBFOOD BANK OF IOWAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +42%
- TATREATMENT ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SAFER COMMUNITIESone grant, 2017 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Provide mental health services to promote resiliency, wellness and positive developmental outcomes through prevention, treatment, education and family support for children under the age of 9 who have experienced abuse, neglect and other…
We inspire hope and well-being for people of all ages by providing counseling, education and support.
Child advocacy organization that focuses on the prevention of child sexual abuse and youth suicide.
Kids crossing's vision is to provide a safe and caring home for every child. our mission is to strengthen families so they may provide the best care for those children entrusted to them.
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
To provide family and individual counseling
`to create a culture that values parenting and keeping children safe through education, respect, advocacy, and strengthening families.
Seeking to build a stronger, more caring community by forming partnerships with businesses, community experts, education & health & human service agencies to achieve targeted outcomes & sustained changes in community conditions which will…
Building confident, connected families through parent education and a nurturing community.
Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.
Crossroads combines innovative clinical counseling with a redemptive worldview to restore people to emotional health, relational unity, and a hopeful future.
Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orchard Place and the most unlike its peers is Equestrian Bridges Inc. 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 35 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DAVIE PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Davie County ↗
- Who funds PLEASE PASS THE LOVE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHARD PLACE ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds TRI-LAKES CARES ↗
- Who funds BEACON INTERFAITH HOUSING COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds PURSUIT OF INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds IOWA ARTS IN EDUCATION DBA ARTFORCE IOWA ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SOAR AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Ozark Natural Science Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLEFUND ↗
- Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES & SHELTER OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS CHILDREN'S SHELTER IN DBA EVERHOPE ARKANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds A STOREHOUSE FOR JESUS INC ↗
- Who funds Equestrian Bridges Inc ↗
- Who funds MIND AND SPIRIT COUNSELING CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · United Way of Central Iowa · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Wt and Edna M Dahl Trust · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mid-Iowa Health Foundation · EMC Insurance Foundation · Variety - the Children's Charity of Iowa · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · United Way Worldwide
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Larson Foundation co Susan Larson funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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