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Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$9.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
80
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$17MYouth Development$7.3MHuman Services$7.0MHousing & Shelter$5.2MFood & Nutrition$5.1MPhilanthropy$4.9MHealth$4.6MCrime & Legal$2.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $2.8M
  • $250k+9 grants · $5.6M
$47,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALVATION ARMY$1,150,000
STANWOOD CAMANO AREA FOUNDATION$1,011,409
FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND$826,926
STANWOOD CAMANO ARTS$536,000
WESTSIDE FOUNDATION$454,351
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY$420,000
YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES$412,376
COMPLETELY KIDS$400,000
Individual grant recipient$364,435
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$225,425
BIKE WORKS$150,000
TEAMMATES MENTORING PROGRAM$150,000
CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE$150,000
SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE$150,000
PROJECT HOUSEWORKS$150,000
02The need
03

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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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $6.9M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YOUTHNET: $50k → 11%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $35k → 12%LIFE CHANGING COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $35k → 14%KOREAN COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $35k → 6%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $35k → 12%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY: $35k → 6%HEARTLAND EQUINE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ACADEMY: $35k → 6%NEW VISIONS HOMELESS SERVICES: $35k → 12%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $65k → 12%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $35k → 9%WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION: $35k → 9%KIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 12%COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOUNDATION: $150k → 9%COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOUNDATION: $150k → 9%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $150k → 12%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $75k → 12%AMARA: $125k → 9%AMARA: $125k → 9%YOUTHCARE: $50k → 9%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $150k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $150k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $150k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $150k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $150k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $150k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $115k → 12%CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE: $100k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $57k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $150k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $150k → 12%TOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $150k → 12%TOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $100k → 12%PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $85k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $135k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $135k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $135k → 12%HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $64k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $412k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $150k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $100k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $100k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $100k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $85k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $75k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $75k → 12%WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $75k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $65k → 12%YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES: $65k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
OR
SD
IA
OH
CA
NE
VA
DC
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$55M · 121 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

121 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

121
113

Total granted

$55M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+41%

Still filing today

81%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $469k 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
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +70%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $2.1M · revenue +0%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • C
    CHILDHAVENgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +31%
  • MC
    METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $131k · revenue +213%
  • DR
    DOUGLAS RESCUE SQUAD OF DOUGLAS
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
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.

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One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
2
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
3
North Omaha Collective

To build the capacity of youth serving organizations, service providers, families and community to claim their voice, cultivate healing and take courageous action to improve their overall health and well being.

Human Services
4
Cornerhouse

The mission of cornerhouse is to partner with families, communities, and systems - entrusted with the safety of children, youth and vulnerable adults - to reduce trauma and end abuse.

Crime & Legal
5
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
6
North Olympic Healthcare Network

To provide patient-centered, quality-driven, whole-person healthcare services, accessible to everyone in our community.

Health
7
Building Changes

Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…

Health
8
Hope Haven Inc

As followers of christ, hope haven's mission is to empower individuals with disabilities through work and life skills so that they may enjoy a productive life in their community.

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9
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
10
Omaha Community Foundation

To serve the community by cultivating generosity and strengthening nonprofits.

Philanthropy
11
Network Services

Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…

Human Services
12
Family Promise of Greater Des Moines

To provide shelter and services to families experiencing homelessness

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Transitional Resources; the most unlike its peers is Salish Sea Expenditions. 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

188 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 188 of the 253 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
53
Early backer (in before they grew)
185/188
Grantees still filing
136/188
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OTOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT: $4,167,610 · OtherOTOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTStanwood-Camano Area Foundation: $3,037,332 · OtherStanwood-Camano Area FoundationSALVATION ARMY: $2,640,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $2,104,147 · OtherOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $2,087,874 · OtherCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE INCFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $2,001,926 · OtherFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLANDOTOE COUNTY SCHOOL AND VILLAGE OF PALMYRA: $1,230,952 · OtherNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,235,000 · Other+99 more: $11,656,322 · Other+99 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $7,989,950 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NEBR…AVENUE SCHOLARS: $585,000 · EducationAVENUE SCHOLARSCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY: $335,000 · Education+10 more: $612,950 · Education+10 moreCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $1,130,000 · Human ServicesCHILD SAVING …YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $767,376 · Human ServicesYOUTH EMERGEN…WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $675,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTE…HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $599,000 · Human ServicesHEARTLAND HOP…PROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $420,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOUSE…Community Resources Foundation: $370,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Res…OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $350,000 · Human ServicesAMARA: $295,000 · Human ServicesKIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $290,000 · Human ServicesTOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $285,000 · Human Services+26 more: $1,679,700 · Human Services+26 moreCOMPLETELY KIDS: $1,260,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPLETELY…NEBRASKA YOUTH JUSTICE INITIATIVE DBA RADIUS: $1,035,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEBRASKA Y…NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $733,000 · Youth DevelopmentNORTHSTAR …HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC: $595,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOPE CENTE…BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $418,000 · Youth DevelopmentBANISTER'S…GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $360,250 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUT…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $268,525 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $260,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE: $225,000 · Youth Development+8 more: $460,000 · Youth Development+8 moreHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $1,048,935 · Housing & ShelterSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $980,000 · Housing & ShelterMICAH HOUSE CORPORATION: $453,000 · Housing & ShelterSTEPHEN CENTER INC: $285,000 · Housing & ShelterCOCOON HOUSE: $200,250 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $107,000 · Housing & ShelterQUALITY LIVING INC: $584,000 · HealthCHICANO AWARENESS CENTER INC: $397,500 · HealthEASTER SEALS NEBRASKA: $257,327 · HealthFRIENDS OF YOUTH: $240,000 · HealthSANTA MONICA INC: $125,500 · HealthSAFE HARBOR FREE CLINIC: $123,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC: $70,000 · Health+7 more: $245,000 · HealthSAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC: $750,000 · Food & NutritionHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $660,000 · Food & NutritionSTANWOOD-CAMANO FOOD BANK SERVICES: $219,140 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $65,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$30,161,163Education$9,522,900Human Services$6,861,076Youth Development$5,614,775Housing & Shelter$3,074,185Health$2,042,327Food & Nutrition$1,694,140

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION: $7,989,950 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetStanwood-Camano Area Foundation: $3,037,332 over 3y, 44% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $2,104,147 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $2,087,874 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND: $2,001,926 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCOMPLETELY KIDS: $1,260,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,235,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC: $1,130,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC: $1,048,935 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetNEBRASKA YOUTH JUSTICE INITIATIVE DBA RADIUS: $1,035,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetSIENA FRANCIS HOUSE: $980,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetBike Works Seattle: $935,500 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC: $767,376 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetSAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC: $750,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetNORTHSTAR FOUNDATION: $733,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Snohomish County: $725,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT: $675,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetHEART MINISTRY CENTER: $660,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $605,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHEARTLAND HOPE MISSION: $599,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetHOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC: $595,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetAVENUE SCHOLARS: $585,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetQUALITY LIVING INC: $584,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY: $480,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetMICAH HOUSE CORPORATION: $453,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetPROJECT HOUSEWORKS: $420,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetBANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $418,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetCHICANO AWARENESS CENTER INC: $397,500 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetCommunity Resources Foundation: $370,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON: $360,250 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $350,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLEGE OF SAINT MARY: $335,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAMARA: $295,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetKIDS CAN COMMUNITY CENTER: $290,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetSTEPHEN CENTER INC: $285,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTOGETHER INC OF METROPOLITAN OMAHA: $285,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA: $270,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA: $268,525 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE MIDLANDS: $260,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEASTER SEALS NEBRASKA: $257,327 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetCarole's House of Hope: $255,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOUTH: $240,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF KING COUNTY: $235,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SEATTLE: $225,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSTANWOOD-CAMANO FOOD BANK SERVICES: $219,140 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetWHISPERING ROOTS INC: $210,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetCOCOON HOUSE: $200,250 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTEEN FEED: $160,000 over 2y, 21% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Stanwood-Camano Area Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OMAHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR THE HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds COMPLETELY KIDS ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CHILD SAVING INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF OMAHA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA YOUTH JUSTICE INITIATIVE DBA RADIUS ↗
  • Who funds SIENA FRANCIS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds Bike Works Seattle ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH EMERGENCY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVING GRACE PERISHABLE FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Community Foundation of Snohomish County ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER FOR ADVANCEMENT ↗
  • Who funds HEART MINISTRY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CHILDREN & FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND HOPE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds AVENUE SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds QUALITY LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA FOR DOUGLAS COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MICAH HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT HOUSEWORKS ↗
  • Who funds BANISTER'S LEADERSHIP ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CHICANO AWARENESS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Resources Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE ↗

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.

The Lozier FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Mutual of Omaha Found…The Hawks FoundationWeitz Family Foundati…Immanuel Community Vi…Suzanne & Walter Scot…United Way of the Mid…Community Foundation …Gilbert M and Martha …The Charles and Mary …
The Lozier FoundationNE126.8× affinity66 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · United Way of the Midlands · Community Foundation of Snohomish County · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family 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 Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Financial Beginnings: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
80report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable 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 253 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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