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Lindberg Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Food & Nutrition$41kHuman Services$22kYouth Development$14kHealth$13kEmployment$10kHousing & Shelter$5kCommunity Improvement$5kCrime & Legal$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$390k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TACOMA AREA COALITION DISABILITIES$3,000
ENGEDI REFUGE$3,000
SUMNER COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$3,000
EMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK TACOMA PIERCE CNT$3,000
YOUTHNET$2,000
CLOTHES FOR KIDS$2,000
CHILD ADVOCACY SNOHOMISH CNTY DAWSON$1,500
WE HEART SEATTLE$1,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%YWCA CLARK COUNTY: $3k → 9%THE CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTO: $3k → 9%NEW DAY MINISTRY: $3k → 10%YOUTHNET: $2k → 11%YWCA CLARK COUNTY: $2k → 9%CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL: $3k → 9%CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL: $3k → 9%BUSINESSES ENDING SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKIN: $3k → 9%BUSINESSES ENDING SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKIN: $2k → 9%EASTSIDE BABY CORNER: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$78k · 11 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$78k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

  • BB
    BACKPACK BRIGADE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +119%
  • CC
    CHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $9k · revenue +58%
  • SC
    Sumner Community Food Bank
    3× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • LD
    LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +4%
  • G
    GREENTRIKEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +63%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
West Seattle Food Bank

West Seattle Food Bank strengthens the community through the power of neighbors helping neighbors, working to ensure all in our community have access to the essential necessities of living.

Food & Nutrition
2
Brightspark Early Learning Services

To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…

Human Services
3
Tacoma Day Care & Preschool Association

In 1911, Tacoma Day Care and Preschool Association established the first preschool in Pierce County with the mission to provide quality, affordable child care. It has a state of the art Early Learning Center serving children fourteen…

Human Services
4
Northwest Harvest Emm

The organization's mission is growing food justice through collective action. the organization's vision is ending hunger in washington state.

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5
Skagit Gleaners

Food recovery for low income families over 600 families served

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6
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
7
Project Access Northwest

Project Access Northwest provides low-income families access to medical, dental and Behavioral Health care so they can live a healthier and more productive life.

Health
8
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
9
Evergreen Childrens Association Dba Kids Co

Our mission is to provide and advocate for affordable quality childcare that enriches and nurtures all children, supporting their success in school and in life.

Human Services
10
Sharenet Food Bank

Address hunger and poverty in North Kitsap while respecting the dignity of those we serve in a nourshing environment.

Food & Nutrition
11
Nooksack Valley Food Bank Association

Our mission is to provide a variety of food products to families and individuals who are in need. We are open one day a week.

Food & Nutrition
12
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mary's Place Seattle and the most unlike its peers is Clothes for Kids. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr18%20%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr13%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr13%5%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
13%
2,800/21,093

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.

04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
14/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BACKPACK BRIGADE — $17,000 · Food & NutritionBACKPACK BRIGADESumner Community Food Bank — $8,500 · Food & NutritionSumner Community Food BankEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $5,500 · Food & NutritionEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TA…Nourish Pierce County — $7,000 · OtherNourish Pierce CountyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH PUGET SOUND — $3,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTH …LINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN — $3,000 · OtherLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR …TACOMA AREA COALITION DISABILITIES — $3,000 · OtherTACOMA AREA COALITION DISABI…ENGEDI REFUGE — $3,000 · OtherENGEDI REFUGEEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND — $3,000 · OtherEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TA…Sidewalk — $2,500 · OtherSidewalkLYNN CAMP MIDDLE HIGH SCHOOL — $2,000 · OtherLYNN CAMP MIDDLE HIGH SCHOOLIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHILD ADVOCACY SNOHOMISH CNTY DAWSON — $1,500 · OtherCHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY — $9,000 · Human ServicesCHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL …YWCA CLARK COUNTY — $5,000 · Human ServicesYWCA CLARK COUNTYBusinesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking — $4,500 · Human ServicesBusinesses Ending Slavery …KIDVANTAGE — $3,000 · Human ServicesKIDVANTAGENew Day Ministry — $3,000 · Human ServicesNew Day MinistryMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $2,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S PLACE SEATTLEYOUTHNET — $2,000 · Human ServicesYOUTHNETCLOTHES FOR KIDS — $4,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING — $7,280 · EducationCAREER PATH SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING — $5,500 · EmploymentGREENTRIKE — $3,000 · Arts & CultureTACOMA ARTS LIVE — $2,000 · Arts & CultureWe Heart Seattle — $4,500 · Community Improvement
Food & Nutrition$31,000Other$30,000Human Services$28,500Youth Development$9,500Education$7,280Employment$5,500Arts & Culture$5,000Community Improvement$4,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBACKPACK BRIGADE — $17,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCHILD CARE ACTION COUNCIL OF THURSTON COUNTY — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSumner Community Food Bank — $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARK INSTITUTE OF LEARNING — $7,280 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNourish Pierce County — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAREER PATH SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY FOOD NETWORK OF TACOMA AND PIERCE COUNTY — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA CLARK COUNTY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLOTHES FOR KIDS — $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWe Heart Seattle — $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBusinesses Ending Slavery & Trafficking — $4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLINDQUIST DENTAL CLINIC FOR CHILDREN — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENTRIKE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDVANTAGE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Day Ministry — $3,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSidewalk — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTACOMA ARTS LIVE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHNET — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…Washington Federal Fo…Seattle FoundationEmployees Community F…Moccasin Lake Foundat…Dv & Ida McEachern Ch…The Bamford FoundationMedina FoundationHelen Martha Schiff F…Woodworth Family Foun…Kilworth Florence Cha…
The Norcliffe FoundationWA33.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Dv & Ida McEachern Charitable Tr · The Bamford Foundation · Medina Foundation · Helen Martha Schiff Foundation · Woodworth Family Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn

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 Lindberg 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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