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Leross 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MITOCHONDRIAL RESEARCH GUILD | $6,500 |
| TREEHOUSE | $3,000 |
| WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION | $2,500 |
| RAZOM | $2,500 |
| AKIN | $2,500 |
| FARESTART | $2,500 |
| MARY'S PLACE | $2,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $2,500 |
| AMERICA RIVERS | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICINE | $2,000 |
| ROUTT COUNTY RIDRS | $2,000 |
| WASHINGTON FARMLAND TRUST SEATTLE | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL CASAGAL ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| EDMONDS FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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 +89% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 5 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- TTREEHOUSE8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +172%
- NBNEW BEGINNINGS8× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +24%
- MPMaris Place6× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $3k
- UOU OF W FOUNDATION FUNDSone grant, 2023 · $2k
- LULift Up of Routt Countyone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +5%
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.
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…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.
Create a more accessible, sustainable, prosperous and livable national capital region by being a discussion forum, expert resource, issue advocate, and catalyst for action.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
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…
We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Childrens Home Society of Washington and the most unlike its peers is Routt County Riders. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 31 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 TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON KIDS IN TRANSITION ↗
- Who funds ROUTT COUNTY RIDERS ↗
- Who funds SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDMONDS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds FIRST PLACE ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds Lift Up of Routt County ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COALITION FOR OPEN GOVERNMENT ↗
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 · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Leross 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.
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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