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Lawrence M Shaw 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.
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 $10k7 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $102k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHEHALIS CENTRALIA RAILROAD & MUSEUM | $40,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| CENTRALIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY | $8,000 |
| ED CHOICE | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $3,000 |
| STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $200 |
| KEY PENINSULA NEWS | $200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- CCCHEHALIS CENTRALIA RAILROAD AND MUSEUM3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +203%
- WTWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $89k · revenue +96%
- TCTHE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $73k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- PSPUGET SOUND CONSUMERS' CHECKBOOKone grant, 2017 · $100
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.
Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.
The mission of the whidbey camano land trust is to protect, restore and create access to forests, shorelines, farmlands and other habitats in island county and the salish sea, for ecological and community resilience and the benefit of all…
Promoting economic sustainability
The pacific crest trail association's mission is to advocate for the pacific crest trail as an inspirational outdoor experience, to connect people to the pct, and to conserve the trail.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
The mission of the Whatcom Land Trust is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship.
To conserve functioning salmon/steelhead eco-system at watershed levels, integrate angling activities with basic scientific research, collect raw data, monitor environmental functions, salmon/steelhead population dynamics, public…
To champion policies that center the expertise and resilience of overburdened communities for environmental progress and justice in the pacific northwest.
Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…
Forest trends works to drive innovation in environmental finance to support resilient ecosystems and communities. through its core initiatives-including forest policy, trade & finance, water, and communities-forest trends develops data,…
To research and develop centrist policy ideas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Treehouse and the most unlike its peers is Chehalis Centralia Railroad and Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 CHEHALIS CENTRALIA RAILROAD AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHEHALIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTRALIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
- Who funds KEY PENINSULA NEWS ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lawrence M Shaw 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.
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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