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Lovsted Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Lovsted Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$299k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$81k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$392kHuman Services$296kEducation$267kRecreation & Sports$102kHealth$81kReligion$53kArts & Culture$47kFood & Nutrition$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $134k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VINE MAPLE PLACE$81,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$53,000
ASSOCIATION RECREATION COUNCIL - GREEN LAKE ROWING$20,000
MARY'S PLACE$20,000
SEATTLE UNION GOSPEL MISSION$20,000
MISSION SCHOLARS - SANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$17,500
CHILDHAVEN$10,000
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER$10,000
TREEHOUSE$8,500
NORTHWEST HARVEST$7,500
PROJECT ID$7,000
SEATTLE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
OPERATION NIGHTWATCH$5,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON RESEARCH$5,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $462k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOSPICE OF SPOKANE: $3k → 12%THE CLOSET: $1k → 8%CHARITY WATER: $500 → 17%BIRTHDAY DREAMS: $500 → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $81k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $76k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $74k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $53k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $49k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $30k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $29k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $27k → 9%VINE MAPLE PLACE: $24k → 9%MERCER ISLAND YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%AMARA: $5k → 9%AMARA: $3k → 9%AMARA: $3k → 9%AMARA: $1k → 9%ROUTE 21: $1k → 9%AMARA: $1k → 9%ROUTE 21: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
ID
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
AZ
DC
HI
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 41 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
27

Total granted

$1.6M
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+24%

Still filing today

51%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentAnimalsPhilanthropyEducationOther
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

  • VM
    VINE MAPLE PLACE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $440k · revenue +75%
  • C
    CHILDHAVEN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $227k · revenue +31%
  • MP
    Maris Place
    9× · 2017–2025 · $62k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +32%
  • MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +138%
  • MI
    MERCER ISLAND YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +7%
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.

1
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho

To provide exceptional reproductive and complementary health care services, honest education, and advocacy for all.

Health
2
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
3
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
4
Food Forward Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
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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6
Neighborcare Health

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…

Health
7
Seattle Children's Foundation

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.

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8
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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9
Building Changes

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…

Health
10
School's Out Washington

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.

Youth Development
11
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
12
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Treehouse; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 74 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $275,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONCHILDHAVEN: $226,583 · OtherCHILDHAVENASSOCIATION RECREATION COUNCIL - GREEN LAKE ROWING: $89,500 · OtherASSOCIATION RECREATION COUNCIL - GREEN LAKE ROWINGSEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSION: $65,500 · OtherSEATTLES UNION GOSPEL MISSIONMISSION SCHOLARS - SANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $58,250 · OtherMISSION SCHOLARS - SANTA BARBARA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $48,000 · OtherEVERGREEN GOODWILL OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON: $40,000 · OtherNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $38,000 · Other+40 more: $156,950 · Other+40 moreVINE MAPLE PLACE: $440,100 · Human ServicesVINE MAPLE PLACEOPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC: $24,000 · Human Services+7 more: $21,500 · Human ServicesMaris Place: $61,500 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSE: $47,000 · Youth DevelopmentBELONG Partners: $4,850 · Youth Development+2 more: $700 · Youth DevelopmentFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $15,500 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $15,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Health+3 more: $1,600 · HealthPROJECT ID: $17,000 · Recreation & SportsSwim Across America Inc: $8,500 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAY: $2,000 · PhilanthropyPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $2,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$997,783Human Services$485,600Youth Development$114,050Health$41,600Recreation & Sports$17,000Philanthropy$10,500Housing & Shelter$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVINE MAPLE PLACE: $440,100 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDHAVEN: $226,583 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMaris Place: $61,500 over 9y, 5.4% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $48,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $47,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetEVERGREEN GOODWILL OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $38,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC: $24,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetPROJECT ID: $17,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMARA: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPeninsula Trails Coalition: $9,500 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELONG Partners: $4,850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF THE ARTS HUMANITIES AND ENVIRONMENT: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCER ISLAND YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROUTE 21: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAPLE VALLEY FOOD BANK AND EMERGENCY SERVICES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISUAL AIDS FOR THE ARTS INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGINGER'S PET RESCUE: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Education: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLOSET INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH COALITION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD DOG HAVEN: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S THERAPY CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBirthday Dreams: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Spokane County: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds VINE MAPLE PLACE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDHAVEN ↗
  • Who funds Maris Place ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds EVERGREEN GOODWILL OF NORTHWEST WASHINGTON ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ID ↗
  • Who funds Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds AMARA ↗
  • Who funds Peninsula Trails Coalition ↗
  • Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
  • Who funds PLYMOUTH HOUSING GROUP AND SUBSIDIARIES ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Puget Sound Energy Fo…Seattle FoundationThe Norcliffe Foundat…United Way of King Co…Medina FoundationLiberty Mutual Founda…Ellison FoundationWindermere FoundationGlassybaby White Ligh…The Blackbaud Giving …M J Murdock Charitabl…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Puget Sound Energy FoundationDE30.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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