How much does Lott Foundation give?

Lott Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $629,995 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Lott Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (68%), Human Services (14%), Philanthropy (9%).

Who are Lott Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Breakthrough T1d ($8.1M), Jewish Family Service ($218k), Open Window School ($107k).

Does Lott Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Lott 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 Lott Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, United Way of King County, Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle.

Where is Lott Foundation based?

Lott Foundation is based in WA.

Lott Foundation

Lott Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$630k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$8.7MHuman Services$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.2MEducation$482kArts & Culture$203kCivil Rights$89kRecreation & Sports$83kReligion$70kOther$0

02FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k24 grants · $87k
$10k–50k15 grants · $318k
$50k–250k3 grants · $225k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$11M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

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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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.3M · 64 repeat orgs$8.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.3M

$8.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%

+31%

Still filing today

59%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther

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

JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
8× · 2017–2024 · $218k · revenue +107%
OW
OPEN WINDOW SCHOOL
5× · 2019–2023 · $107k · revenue +80%
TF
THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF WASHINGTON
6× · 2018–2024 · $96k · revenue +98%

Funded once

BT
BREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $8.1M · revenue +35%
NM
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY GREATER NORTHWEST CHAPTER
one grant, 2017 · $10k
NU
NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2018 · $10k

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.

Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

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,…

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University Cooperative School

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.

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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

Society for Neuroscience

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…

Health

Seattle Children's Guild Association

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.

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Siff

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.

Youth Development

Seattle Children's Hospital

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…

Health

United States Naval Institute

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.

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Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

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.

Human Services

The Association of Chrmc and University Physicians

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…

Health

Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education

The George Washington University

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seattle Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

79 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. 79 of the 126 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

76/79

Grantees still filing

55/79

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$8,453,683Other$2,446,722Philanthropy$1,188,059Human Services$345,808Education$229,379Recreation & Sports$112,575Civil Rights$63,861

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

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.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA45.5× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lott Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lott Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Lott Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lott 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.

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More from the funding graph

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