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Little Family Legacy 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.

$38k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$32kHealth$27kHousing & Shelter$23kAnimals$22kYouth Development$18kInternational$18kFood & Nutrition$17kReligion$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$493k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWEST ORGANIZATION FOR ANIMAL HELP$4,500
SHADOWS FOREVER FRIENDS$4,000
THE TREVOR PROJECT INC$3,000
WHATCOM HUMANE SOCIETY$3,000
BRIGID COLLINS HOUSE$3,000
BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN$3,000
SKOOKUM KIDS$3,000
LYDIA PLACE A NONPROFIT CORPORATION$2,500
NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICE$2,500
LIGHTHOUSE MISSION MINISTRIES$2,500
SKAGIT GLEANERS$2,000
ALTERNATIVES TO HUNGER$2,000
DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC$1,500
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC$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 (FY17–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 12%SKOOKUM KIDS: $3k → 12%BRIGID COLLINS HOUSE: $3k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICE: $3k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICE: $3k → 12%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICE: $2k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICE: $2k → 12%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICE: $2k → 12%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 12%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 12%NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICE: $1k → 12%OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $1k → 12%BLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN: $1k → 12%HOMESNOW: $4k → 12%SKOOKUM KIDS: $4k → 12%SKOOKUM KIDS: $3k → 12%SKOOKUM KIDS: $2k → 12%SKOOKUM KIDS: $2k → 12%SKOOKUM KIDS: $2k → 12%SKOOKUM KIDS: $2k → 12%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
MD
AZ
LA
AL

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of Little Family Legacy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Little Family Legacy Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$159k · 19 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
17

Total granted

$159k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+18%

Still filing today

89%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 ServicesAnimalsInternationalCivil RightsCrime & LegalEducationOther

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

  • LP
    LYDIA PLACE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +143%
  • SK
    Skookum Kids
    7× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +95%
  • NY
    NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES
    6× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • PC
    PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +32%
  • H
    HOMESNOW
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +20%
  • NA
    NORTHWEST ALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE ACCESS
    one grant, 2017 · $3k

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.

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House Our Neighbors

House Our Neighbors envisions a future where all people can afford to live and thrive in vibrant, cohesive, and climate resilient communities. To achieve this, we develop, advocate, and mobilize for policy to realize social housing for the…

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2
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
3
Transitions

Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.

Human Services
4
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
5
Re Sources

RE Sources mobilizes people of Northwest Washington to build just and thriving communities and to protect the land, water, and climate on which we all depend.

Environment
6
Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund

The Washington Housing Alliance Action Fund elects candidates, educates voters and decision-makers, and amplifies the voices and priorities of people and communities most impacted by housing instability and homelessness.

Housing & Shelter
7
We Heart Seattle

We Heart Seattle is an action-based, boots-on-the-ground movement that organizes trash cleanups in our public spaces and offers resources to those in need. Through our direct civic engagement we lead the way to a more compassionate and…

Community Improvement
8
Northwest Fair Housing Alliance

The mission of the Northwest Fair Housing Alliance is to eliminate housing discrimination and to ensure equal housing opportunity for the people of Washington State through education, counseling and advocacy.

Civil Rights
9
Spark Northwest

Founded in 2001, Spark Northwest accelerates the just transition to clean energy in the Pacific Northwest. Spark Northwest uses two primary strategies: (1) on-the-ground project consulting, focusing on communities with limited financial…

Environment
10
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
11
Family Promise of Pierce County

To empower families experiencing housing insecurity through intervention, prevention,and stabilization services.

Housing & Shelter
12
Invest in Washington Now Campaign

Advocate for tax policy in Washington State

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Homesnow. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr18%34%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr15%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr18%38%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr15%17%55yr+

The field is 21% 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 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
12%
4,745/38,929

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.

05the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 41 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
26/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LYDIA PLACE — $19,500 · OtherLYDIA PLACELIGHTHOUSE MISSION MINISTRIES — $10,500 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE MISSION MINISTRIESSEAN HUMPHREY HOUSE — $8,000 · OtherSEAN HUMPHREY HOUSEWhatcom Center for Early Learning — $5,885 · OtherWhatcom Center for Early LearningMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITHOUT — $5,500 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC - DOCTORS WITH…NORTHWEST ORGANIZATION FOR ANIMAL HELP — $4,500 · OtherSKAGIT GLEANERS — $4,000 · OtherNORTHWEST ALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE ACCESS — $3,000 · OtherONE ROOF FOUNDATION — $6,000 · OtherONE ROOF FOUNDATIONTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION+10 more — $13,100 · Other+10 moreSkookum Kids — $17,000 · Human ServicesSkookum KidsNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES — $12,240 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICESBLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN — $11,000 · Human ServicesBLUE SKIES FOR CHILDRENHOMESNOW — $3,500 · Human ServicesHOMESNOWBRIGID COLLINS HOUSE — $3,000 · Human ServicesBRIGID COLLINS HOUSE+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesTREVOR PROJECT INC — $12,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PRO…CASA FOR CHILDREN INC — $6,000 · Civil RightsCASA FOR C…Whatcom Women in Business — $1,000 · Civil RightsWHATCOM HUMANE SOCIETY — $9,000 · AnimalsWHATCOM H…Shadows Forever Friends — $6,000 · AnimalsShadows F…THE ARK OF SAN JUAN COMPANION ANIMAL RESCUE — $1,000 · AnimalsTHE ARK O…PET PEACE OF MIND — $1,000 · AnimalsPET PEACE…GIVE2ASIA — $5,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $5,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 · InternationalTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT — $1,000 · InternationalThe Borgen Project — $500 · InternationalAlternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank — $11,900 · Food & NutritionSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $6,000 · Crime & LegalLavender Rights Project — $4,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$84,985Human Services$47,740Civil Rights$19,000Animals$17,000International$12,500Food & Nutrition$11,900Crime & Legal$10,500

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$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLYDIA PLACE — $19,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSkookum Kids — $17,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES — $12,240 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAlternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank — $11,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE SKIES FOR CHILDREN — $11,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWHATCOM HUMANE SOCIETY — $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSEAN HUMPHREY HOUSE — $8,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetONE ROOF FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASA FOR CHILDREN INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWhatcom Center for Early Learning — $5,885 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE2ASIA — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST ORGANIZATION FOR ANIMAL HELP — $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLavender Rights Project — $4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSKAGIT GLEANERS — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMESNOW — $3,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBRIGID COLLINS HOUSE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBellingham Bay Community Boating Center — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT BAKER THEATRE — $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARK OF SAN JUAN COMPANION ANIMAL RESCUE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY COUNCIL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSehome High School PTSA — $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWILLIAM TEMPLE HOUSE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION CREATE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWhatcom Women in Business — $1,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Borgen Project — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI — $300 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.

Whatcom Community Fou…Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Norcliffe Foundat…Jerry H Walton Founda…Chuckanut Health Foun…North Sound Accountab…The Albertsons Compan…First Fed FoundationUnited Way of Whatcom…Seattle FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…Mount Baker Foundation
Whatcom Community FoundationWA36.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Whatcom Community Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Jerry H Walton Foundation · Chuckanut Health Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · First Fed Foundation · United Way of Whatcom County · Seattle Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Mount Baker 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 Little Family Legacy 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 · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
  • William Temple House — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Little Family Legacy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Little Family Legacy 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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