· Private foundation
Lovsted Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k22 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $81k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VINE MAPLE PLACE | $75,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $35,500 |
| CHILDHAVEN | $15,000 |
| MARY'S PLACE | $10,000 |
| SEATTLE UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $10,000 |
| MISSION SCHOLARS - SANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PROJECT ID | $7,500 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON RESEARCH | $5,000 |
| SEATTLE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES | $5,000 |
| FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $5,000 |
| ASSOCIATION RECREATION COUNCIL - GREEN LAKE ROWING | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NORTHWEST HARVEST | $5,000 |
| OPERATION NIGHTWATCH | $3,000 |
| POCOCK ROWING CENTER | $2,500 |
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, $377k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- VMVINE MAPLE PLACE8× · 2017–2024 · $359k · revenue +75%
- CCHILDHAVEN8× · 2017–2024 · $217k · revenue +31%
- MPMaris Place8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- SCSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +14%
MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +138%- JFJOYCE FIRE DEPARTMENT AUXILIARYone grant, 2022 · $3k
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 provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
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…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Mary's place ensures that no child sleeps outside by centering equity and opportunity for women and families. we provide shelter and resources for families facing or experiencing homelessness.
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.
School's out washington (sowa) drives positive systemic change so that all washington's children and youth, particularly those furthest from justice, have access to a robust ecosystem of high-quality expanded learning programs.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Network services has been serving homeless families in the puget sound area since 1990, with a focus on families with children. network services aims to break the cycle of homelessness by providing assistance to families with children to…
The organization is a community-based, non-profit agency that operates 31 medical, dental, and school-based health centers throughout seattle and provides services to over 57,008 people each year. our clinics are located throughout areas…
Seattle children's foundation exists to improve the quality of health care services to infants, children, and adolescents through contributions to organizations providing health care services, research and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm and the most unlike its peers is Route 21. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 68 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 VINE MAPLE PLACE ↗
- Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN GOODWILL OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds AMARA ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ID ↗
- Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
- Who funds Peninsula Trails Coalition ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
- Who funds BELONG Partners ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF THE ARTS HUMANITIES AND ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds MERCER ISLAND YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
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: Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · United Way of King County · Medina Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Ellison Foundation · Windermere Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Lovsted Family Charitable 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.