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Lookout Foundation Inc

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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
68
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.1MEnvironment$832kHuman Services$654kEducation$450kFood & Nutrition$309kHealth$222kCommunity Improvement$213kPublic Safety & Disaster$167kOther$0
02FY2025 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $128k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $410k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $635k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$100,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY - FL CHAPTER$100,000
BALLARD FOOD BANK$75,000
HOPELINK$60,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
COOPERRIIS TRANSITIONAL LIVING PROG$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
PIKES PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF WA FOUNDATION$50,000
ROSE HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$50,000
CATO INSTITUTE$35,000
SALVATION ARMY LOWER KEYS$35,000
PLANT A MILLION CORALS FOUNDATION$30,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS FL$30,000
BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FL FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 13%WESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 13%WESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 13%SAMUEL'S HOUSE INC: $3k → 13%SAMUEL'S HOUSE INC: $3k → 13%SAMUEL'S HOUSE INC: $3k → 13%SAMUEL'S HOUSE INC: $3k → 13%SAMUEL'S HOUSE INC: $3k → 13%RYTHER: $10k → 9%RYTHER: $10k → 9%RYTHER: $10k → 9%RYTHER: $3k → 9%RYTHER: $3k → 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
IL
OR
IA
IN
CA
UT
CO
VA
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
GA
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 57 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
19

Total granted

$4.0M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+34%

Still filing today

63%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RI
    Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
    5× · 2020–2025 · $250k · revenue +63%
  • BALLARD FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2025 · $248k · revenue +101%
  • H
    HOPELINK
    5× · 2020–2025 · $223k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • PA
    PER ATTACHED SCHEDULE
    one grant, 2022 · $805k
  • WF
    WA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +138%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
2
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
3
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
4
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
5
Fsc I&P

Fsc i&p promotes environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests. this mission aligns with the forest stewardship council (fsc), its network of offices, and other organizations.…

Philanthropy
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
8
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
9
Marine Science Institute

The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.

—
10
Washington Wild

Washington wild protects and restores wild lands and waters in washington state through advocacy, education and civic engagement.

Animals
11
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
12
Women's Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Polyvagal Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 84 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
31/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PER ATTACHED SCHEDULE: $805,030 · OtherPER ATTACHED SCHEDULEIndividual grant recipient: $498,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNATURE CONSERVANCY - FL CHAPTER: $420,000 · OtherNATURE CONSERVANCY - FL CHAPTERRose-Hulman Institute of Technology: $250,000 · OtherRose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyBALLARD FOOD BANK: $248,230 · OtherBALLARD FOOD BANKCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF FL KEYS: $140,000 · Other+57 more: $1,505,506 · Other+57 morePlant a Million Corals Foundation Inc: $220,000 · EnvironmentTHE MOUNTAINEERS: $57,000 · EnvironmentReef Relief Inc: $37,000 · EnvironmentKEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY: $15,371 · Environment+1 more: $3,138 · EnvironmentHOPELINK: $223,368 · Human ServicesRYTHER: $36,000 · Human ServicesWESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSAMUEL'S HOUSE INC: $13,500 · Human Services+1 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION: $213,000 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Education+3 more: $7,650 · EducationFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED: $90,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $55,354 · InternationalSTAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC: $69,000 · HealthCOOPERRIIS INC: $55,000 · HealthNAMI South Mountains NC: $10,000 · HealthNAMI Eastside: $5,069 · Health
Other$3,866,766Environment$332,509Human Services$306,868Community Improvement$213,000Education$157,650International$145,354Health$139,069

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRose-Hulman Institute of Technology: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBALLARD FOOD BANK: $248,230 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHOPELINK: $223,368 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPlant a Million Corals Foundation Inc: $220,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION: $213,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $113,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS: $98,138 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED: $90,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSTAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC: $69,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $58,096 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNTAINEERS: $57,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $55,354 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERRIIS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS OUTREACH COALITION INC: $55,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFarms for Life: $50,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN: $46,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetReef Relief Inc: $37,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetRYTHER: $36,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSISTER SEASON FUND INC: $35,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetWESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN VETERINARY MISSION: $16,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKEY WEST BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY: $15,371 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SEATTLE AQUARIUM SOCIETY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAVE OUR WILD SALMON: $13,877 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR SEATTLEKING COUNTY: $13,876 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAMUEL'S HOUSE INC: $13,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPRATT FINE ARTS CENTER: $10,092 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI South Mountains NC: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetWILDLIFE WARRIORS USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $8,232 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD DOG HAVEN: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAMI Eastside: $5,069 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOLYVAGAL INSTITUTE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPCC FARMLAND TRUST: $3,138 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST I: $3,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSheJumps: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMIND EDUCATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF EDUCATION & RESEARCH CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAU BETA PI ASSOCIATION INC: $650 over 5y, 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 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds BALLARD FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds HOPELINK ↗
  • Who funds Plant a Million Corals Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds PIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ↗
  • Who funds FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds STAR OF THE SEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE MOUNTAINEERS ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERRIIS INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA KEYS OUTREACH COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds Farms for Life ↗
  • Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
  • Who funds TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Reef Relief Inc ↗
  • Who funds RYTHER ↗
  • Who funds SISTER SEASON FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds WESLEY HOUSE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Community Foundation …Seattle FoundationPuget Sound Energy Fo…Edward B and Joan T K…The Batchelor Foundat…Klaus Murphy FdnReal Progress Foundat…The Norcliffe Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…Dion Banks FoundationKeys Open Doors Found…United Way of Collier…
Community Foundation of the Florida KeysFL22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Florida Keys · Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Edward B and Joan T Knight Foundati Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Klaus Murphy Fdn · Real Progress Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Dion Banks Foundation · Keys Open Doors Foundation Inc · United Way of Collier and the Keys Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Star of the Sea Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Samuel's House Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 84 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home