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Live Like Raija

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.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$23kRecreation & Sports$12kInternational$5kSocial Science$5kArts & Culture$1kHealth$858Philanthropy$230Animals$230Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$29k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$1,115
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$750
E AND F SPORTS - ELIAS HASSAN$500
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GOFUNDME GIVING FUND: $230 → 7%JADE ROBINSON: $1k → 14%ALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY: $1k → 14%IT'S ON US: $1k → 14%SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $29 → 9%CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $27 → 8%Fair Fight Action: $100 → 14%RAINIER SCHOLARS: $8k → 9%JADE ROBINSON: $1k → 14%IT'S ON US: $230 → 14%RAINIER SCHOLARS: $3k → 9%Rainier Scholars: $3k → 9%RAINIER SCHOLARS: $1k → 9%AMARAH NDIRANQU - RAINIER SCHOLARS: $750 → 9%Fit Bar: $34 → 9%E&F SPORTS: $6k → 9%E AND F SPORTS - ELIAS HASSAN: $500 → 9%JAYDA WILLIAMS: $1k → 9%ALS Association - Evergreen Chapter: $230 → 9%CITY OF SEATTLE: $2k → 9%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
NY
CT
CA
UT
NM
DC
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 15% of Live Like Raija’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in WA; by stated purpose, 47%.

Live Like Raijalessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 26% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its field
05the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

E&F SPORTS: $5,500 · OtherE&F SPORTSIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $2,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGRANTS UNDER 1000: $2,045 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherCITY OF SEATTLE: $1,753 · OtherNUANI SANTIAGO RAINIER SCHOLARS: $1,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · Other+20 more: $13,929 · Other+20 moreRAINIER SCHOLARS: $15,489 · EducationRAINIER SCHOLARSALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY: $1,000 · EducationALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY+1 more: $100 · EducationTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $34 · Crime & LegalSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $29 · Crime & Legal
Other$43,327Education$16,589Crime & Legal$63

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS: $15,489 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIR FIGHT ACTION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $34 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $29 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $27 over 1y, 0.0% 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 RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds ALBUQUERQUE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds FAIR FIGHT ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Live Like Raija funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Live Like Raija. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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