· Private foundation
Lawrence and Sherian Washington 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY | $80,000 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $42,000 |
| BLACK BELT UNINCORPORATED WASTEWATER PROGRAM | $15,000 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $12,500 |
| WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY | $12,500 |
| PROVINCE OF ST JOSEPH OF THE CAPUCHIN ORDER INC | $3,000 |
| GATEWAY HEALTHCARE | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY | $2,000 |
| AVALON VILLAGE INC | $1,000 |
| CANCER CARE INC | $1,000 |
| PASADENA WALDORF SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN INC | $1,000 |
| DETROIT IMPACT INC | $1,000 |
| PROJECT PEANUT BUTTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 49% of Lawrence and Sherian Washington Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY5× · 2019–2025 · $222k · revenue +8%- BBBLACK BELT UNINCORPORATED WASTEWATER PROGRAM3× · 2023–2025 · $57k · revenue +11%
SMILE TRAIN INC8× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- LHLOYOLA HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CICY-HOPE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +131%
- C4CHILDREN 4 TOMORROWone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -25%
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.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
Friends of the children - chicago has a mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what. 92% go on to enroll in…
To promote innovative solutions to education challenges and inspire action that creates positive, sustainable futures for children and youth worldwide
yes. every kid. is a leading advocacy team with a families-first approach to transform America's education policy landscape.
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
Global fund for children partners with grassroots organizations around the world to help children and youth reach their full potential and advance their rights.
Friends of the children - austin is a texas based nonprofit with the mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years,no matter…
Youth & opportunity united, inc. is a not-for-profit, youth development agency that provides services and leadership to meet the emerging needs of young people and their families in our community. y.o.u. programs are trauma-informed,…
One child global's mission is to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive. onechild global's 355 hope centers provide holistic child development progress in nineteen countries.
To transform lives and communities by providing an array of programs, all directed toward changing the lives of children in the foster care system aimed to prevent academic failure, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, sex trafficking,…
The center for children & youth justice was founded in 2006 with one mission: reform the child welfare and juvenile justice systems to improve the lives of generations of children and youth in washington state. our focus is large-scale,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Sports Inc and the most unlike its peers is Avalon Village 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 23 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 52 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 UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
- Who funds BLACK BELT UNINCORPORATED WASTEWATER PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PROJECT PEANUT BUTTER ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Detroit Impact Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MIDNIGHT GOLF PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE EXPERIMENTAL STATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS' MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds Gateway Healthcare ↗
- Who funds THE BLACK BELT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT BEND COMMUNITY PARTNERS RAINBOW ROOM ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE ACADEMY INC DBA YELLOWSTONE SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds SUE DUNCAN CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CY-HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Avalon Village Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES GREATER HOUSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CODEORG ↗
- Who funds KABOOM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS CODE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP TAYLOR INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN 4 TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COOL KIDS CHILD CARE EDUCATION AND NUTRITION INC ↗
- Who funds Cancer Care Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES TO FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE DEFENDERS (USA) INC ↗
- Who funds Homemade Hope for Homeless Children ↗
- Who funds PASADENA WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lawrence and Sherian Washington Family Foundation 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
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.