How much does Louden Family Foundation give?

Louden Family Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $99,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Louden Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (42%), Arts & Culture (17%), Youth Development (11%).

Who are Louden Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($133k), Rocky Mountain Arts Association ($65k), The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation ($56k).

Does Louden Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Louden Family 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 Louden Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Moccasin Lake Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation.

Where is Louden Family Foundation based?

Louden Family Foundation is based in WA.

Louden Family Foundation

Louden Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Louden Family Foundation

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.

$99k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$16k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$363kArts & Culture$149kYouth Development$97kAnimals$77kHuman Services$37kRecreation & Sports$28kCrime & Legal$24kHealth$19kOther$0

02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k42 grants · $63k
$10k–50k3 grants · $36k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SNOW LEOPARD TRUST	$15,500
CARBONDALE CLAY CENTER	$10,500
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL	$10,000
THE CONSERVATION FUND	$7,000
ORGANIZATION FOR TROPICAL STUDIES	$6,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY	$5,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARTS ASSOCIATION	$5,000
THE FOREST CONSERVANCY	$4,000
KID PAN ALLEY	$3,600
FAMILY LAW CASA	$3,500
THE OCEAN CONSERVANCY	$3,000
ROARING FORK OUTDOOR VOLUNTEER	$2,000
EARLHAM COLLEGE	$2,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION	$1,500
THE BLUE BENCH	$1,000

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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$834k · 75 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

75 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$834k

$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+63%

Still filing today

73%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +41%
RM
ROCKY MOUNTAIN ARTS ASSOCIATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +57%
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +40%

Funded once

SR
STANDING ROCK WATER PROJECT
one grant, 2017 · $1k
BL
BIG LIFE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $1k
CS
CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%

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.

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment

Washington Forest Law Center

Dedicated to protecting the world's natural environment on behalf of the public by serving as a public interest law firm. refer to schedule o, part iii, line 4a, for list of litigated cases or advocacy work.

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Cascadia Wildlands

Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…

Environment

Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation

We bring science, policy, and proven solutions directly to communities working to restore the integrity and natural connectivity of the landscapes in which they live. (see schedule o)

Environment

National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment

Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit

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

Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment

Wildlife Conservation Network Inc

Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.

Animals

Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Rhc Foundation. 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

71 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. 71 of the 97 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)

70/71

Grantees still filing

53/71

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$355,450Environment$284,400Animals$73,335Human Services$55,500Education$52,100Recreation & Sports$27,000Arts & Culture$26,500

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO25.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Lumen Clarke M Williams Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation 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 Louden Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louden Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get 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 · 0–50%

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.

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grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The camps

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By state

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