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Lorna Jordan Charitable Organization AKA Lorna Jordan 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k24 grants · $310k
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| RENTON REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS | $100,000 |
| 350 SEATTLE | $100,000 |
| SPECTRUM DANCE THEATER | $100,000 |
| TUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM | $100,000 |
| WASHINGTON STEM CENTER | $100,000 |
| DONEY MEMORIAL PET CLINIC | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $100,000 |
| REHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS INC | $100,000 |
| SEATTLE CLEMENCY PROJECT | $100,000 |
| EASTSIDE LEGAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $100,000 |
| TUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM | $100,000 |
| FOOD LIFELINE | $100,000 |
| HELPLINE HOUSE | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $210k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TETHE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $230k · revenue +21%
- CPCOMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS2× · 2023–2024 · $180k · revenue -11%
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE2× · 2023–2024 · $180k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- LTLAND TOGETHER DBA INSIGHT GARDEN PROGRAMone grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue -4%
- BBBYRD BARR PLACEone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +2%
- ATARTIST TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $60k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
Rainier Beach Action Coalition is a grassroot, Black-led organization devoted to locally driven development. It promotes quality education, living wage jobs, affordable transportation and housing, and building community capacity in…
We promote meaningful pathways for everyone to engage with conflict, to learn from each other, and to grow in community.
Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…
Through Jazz education that liberates and inspires, Seattle JazzED increase access in the music room, celebrates student expression, and builds lasting connection rooted in community.
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…
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
The Seattle Architecture Foundation connects people to the architecture, design, and history of Seattle. We believe the more you engage with design, the more you feel connected to your changing city. As a volunteer driven organization, we…
Civil Survival organizes system-impacted people, provides legal representation and reentry support, and advocates for policy reform to restore opportunity to communities harmed by the criminal legal system in Washington State.
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…
We bring together the diverse communities, governments, the private sector and nonprofits of Lake Washigtons Eastside to make the vision for the completed Eastrail a reality and improve equity through access.
Pathwaves Washington builds the collective power of leaders of color to transform early childhood systems so that every child and their community thrives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rvc Seattle and the most unlike its peers is Jefferson Community Counseling Cent Dba Discovery Behavioral Healthcare. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
34 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. 34 of the 35 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN CENTER FOR HEALTH & FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PASSAGEWAYS ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds HELPLINE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds RENTON REGIONAL COMMUNITY FNDN ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON STEM CENTER ↗
- Who funds REHABILITATION THROUGH THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds DONEY MEMORIAL PET CLINIC DBA DONEY COE PET CLINIC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL COUNSEL FOR YOUTH AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Artist Trust ↗
- Who funds CARDEA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE LEGAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CLEMENCY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds QUEER ART INC ↗
- Who funds 350 Seattle ↗
- Who funds Spectrum Dance Theater ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds URBAN ARTWORKS ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE - USA INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIES IN ARTS ↗
- Who funds LAND TOGETHER DBA INSIGHT GARDEN PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds BYRD BARR PLACE ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITY HOUSING & DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds FAMILYWORKS ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds OLYMPIC COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds RVC SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENT DBA DISCOVERY BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas ↗
- Who funds ON THE BOARDS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Gates Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Raikes Foundation · Credit Unions in the State of Washington · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Byrd Barr Place
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 Lorna Jordan Charitable Organization AKA Lorna Jordan 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.
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.
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