· Private foundation
Lawrence True & Linda Brown Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $550k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN HALL SEATTLE | $250,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CASCADE PBS | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $100,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $100,000 |
| DOWNTOWN EMERGENCY SVC CTR | $50,000 |
| SEATTLE OPERA | $50,000 |
| LAW FUNDENDOWMENT FOR EQUAL JUSTICE | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCO | $25,000 |
| TAPROOT THEATER | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNION ARTS CENTER (ACT) | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB | $5,000 |
| WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $236k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +7%
- ACA CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC3× · 2020–2022 · $110k · revenue +17%
- NINATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCO6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- CPCASCADE PUBLIC MEDIAone grant, 2025 · $100k · revenue 0%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SCHOOL OF MUSICone grant, 2025 · $100k
- TTTAPROOT THEATERone grant, 2025 · $15k
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.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
To present symphonic music of the highest quality in a distinctive way for the cultural enrichment, education, engagement and enjoyment of the people of our community.
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
Washington performing arts champions the arts as a unifying force. through collaborations with artists, educators, community leaders, and institutional partners, we bring wide-ranging artistic programs to stages, schools, and neighborhoods…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
WSAS provides expert scientific and engineering assessments to inform public policy making and works to increase the impact of research in Washington State.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To support our members and promote the growth and quality of oregon's technology industry by providing opportunities for business and professional development through networking and informational programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cascade Public Media and the most unlike its peers is National Institute of Flamenco. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 23 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 WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Town Hall Association ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE OPERA ↗
- Who funds A CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FLAMENCO ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WING LUKE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · Wyman Youth Trust · Artsfund · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · 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
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 True & Linda Brown 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.
- Yale University — 12% 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.
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