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Lott 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $318k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE | $75,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| OGDEN POINTE GIVING FUND | $41,700 |
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $30,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON | $26,800 |
| NORTHWEST PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $26,450 |
| STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| CAMP SOLOMON SCHECHTER | $20,000 |
| HERZL-NER TAMID CONSERVATIVE CONGREGATION | $20,000 |
| STROUM JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $18,000 |
| SAFE CROSSING FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BROTHERS FOR LIFE | $10,010 |
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 (FY17–24, $339k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +73% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 10 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE8× · 2017–2024 · $218k · revenue +107%
- OWOPEN WINDOW SCHOOL5× · 2019–2023 · $107k · revenue +80%
- TFTHE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON6× · 2018–2024 · $96k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8.1M · revenue +35%
- NMNATIONAL MS SOCIETY GREATER NORTHWEST CHAPTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
- NUNORTHWEST UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
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…
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
Seattle children's guild association advocates for seattle children's hospital through volunteer, philanthropic and community endeavors to ensure hope, excellent care and advanced cures for children.
Siff is a seattle-based 501(c)(3) arts nonprofit dedicated to the creation of vibrant experiences and spaces that champion film discovery and arts education.
Seattle children's hospital (seattle children's) will be an innovative leader in pediatric health and wellness through our unsurpassed quality, clinical care, relentless spirit of inquiry, and compassion for all children and their…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
Children's university medical group (cumg) is the non-profit pediatric group practice established to support the academic, research and clinical missions of its corporate members, university of washington school of medicine (uwsom) and…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Listen and Talk. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 126 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 BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER SEATTLE ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds OPEN WINDOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON STATE JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIE ↗
- Who funds SAFE CROSSINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Camp Solomon Schechter ↗
- Who funds HAMLIN ROBINSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Northwest Parkinsons Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds MERCER ISLAND SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kline Galland Center ↗
- Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
- Who funds ONE ROOF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
- Who funds RIVKIN CENTER FOR OVARIAN CANCER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CANCER FUND ↗
- Who funds 5TH AVENUE THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · United Way of King County · Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · The Norcliffe Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · Robins Nest Family Foundation · Samis Foundation · Garneau Nicon Family Foundation · Feinberg 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 Lott 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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