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Laurie Clayton Foundation at a glance

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Laurie Clayton Foundation

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.

$110k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$240kRecreation & Sports$150kEducation$110kScience & Tech$30kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$45,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Outdoors For All$45,000
JDRF$45,000
City League Sports$10,000
Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SETI Institute: $10k → 8%JDRF: $45k → 17%Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado: $10k → 8%NORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS: $20k → 9%SETI INSTITUTE: $5k → 8%JDRF: $25k → 17%NORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS: $10k → 9%JDRF: $25k → 17%NORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS: $10k → 9%JDRF: $20k → 17%Outdoors For All: $45k → 9%JDRF: $15k → 17%Outdoors For All: $25k → 9%JDRF: $15k → 17%Outdoors For All: $20k → 9%JDRF: $5k → 17%Outdoors For All: $15k → 9%OUTDOORS FOR ALL: $5k → 9%FOOD LIFELINE: $5k → 9%UW FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%UW FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%Paul Hodge Graduate Fund: $10k → 9%PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER: $15k → 9%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $15k → 9%Northwest Kidney Center: $25k → 9%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$480k · 6 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$480k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-2%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsScience & TechFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • BT
    BREAKTHROUGH T1D
    7× · 2018–2024 · $150k · revenue +31%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +46%
  • NK
    NORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS
    4× · 2017–2021 · $65k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -2%
  • PS
    PACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -24%
  • PH
    Paul Hodge Graduate Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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.

1
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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2
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
3
Life Science Washington

Life science washington is a non-profit trade and professional association dedicated to promoting innovation and responsible growth in the life sciences and biomedical industries in the state of washington. promotion and education are…

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4
Bloodworks

Saving lives through research, innovation, education and excellence in blood, medical and laboratory services in partnership with our community.

Health
5
Friends of Kexp

Kexp's mission is to enrich your life by championing music and discovery.

Youth Development
6
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
7
Epilepsy Foundation of America

To improve the lives of peoples affected by epilepsy through education, advocacy, research, and connection.

Health
8
Pkd Foundation

We give hope. we fund research, advocate for patients, and build a community for all impacted by pkd.

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9
Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Seattle Chapter

Arcs foundation advances science and technology in the united states by providing financial awards to academically outstanding u.s. citizens studying to complete degrees in science, engineering and medical research.

Education
10
Siff

Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.

Youth Development
11
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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12
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington; the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $150,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS: $65,000 · HealthNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERSMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON: $15,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTONOutdoors for all Foundation: $110,000 · Recreation & SportsOutdoors for all Founda…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WASHING…CITY LEAGUE SPORTS: $40,000 · OtherCITY LEAGUE …EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $10,000 · OtherEPILEPSY FOU…Paul Hodge Graduate Fund: $10,000 · OtherPaul Hodge G…SETI INSTITUTE: $15,000 · Science & TechPACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFOOD LIFELINE: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Health$230,000Recreation & Sports$110,000Education$100,000Other$60,000Science & Tech$15,000Arts & Culture$15,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $150,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOutdoors for all Foundation: $110,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST KIDNEY CENTERS: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ALASKA & WASHINGTON: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSETI INSTITUTE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

United Way of King Co…Seattle FoundationNetwork for GoodMorgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of King CountyWA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of King County · Seattle Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 Laurie Clayton Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Laurie Clayton 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 11 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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