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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 FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
29%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$493k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 29% of the organizations Little Family Legacy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalCivil RightsAnimalsCrime & LegalEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$38k21%
FY202317$35k29%
FY202219$36k26%
FY202115$24k13%
FY202018$26k33%
FY201916$24k81%
FY20181$200100%
FY20174$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
OH
CA
MD
AZ
LA
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lydia Place$19,50070%
Skookum Kids$17,00070%
Northwest Youth Services$12,24060%
Trevor Project Inc$12,00060%
Alternatives to Hunger Bellingham Food Bank$11,90060%
Blue Skies for Children$11,00061%
Lighthouse Mission Ministries$10,5005n/a
Whatcom Humane Society$9,00060%
Sean Humphrey House$8,00041%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$6,00050%
Show all 37 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Little Family Legacy Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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 budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpportunity Council: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhatcom Women in Business: $1,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetSehome High School PTSA: $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMission Create: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Global Hunger Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Temple House: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ark of San Juan Companion Animal Rescue: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Borgen Project: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Western Washington University and Alumni: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

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

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.

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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.

About Little Family Legacy Foundation

How much does Little Family Legacy Foundation give?
Little Family Legacy Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $38,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Little Family Legacy Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (16%), Health (13%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
Who are Little Family Legacy Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lydia Place ($20k), Skookum Kids ($17k), Northwest Youth Services ($12k).
Does Little Family Legacy Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Little Family Legacy Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Little Family Legacy Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Whatcom Community Foundation, Puget Sound Energy Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation.
Where is Little Family Legacy Foundation based?
Little Family Legacy Foundation is based in DE.

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 41 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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