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The Larson Legacy

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$210k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
62
Grants FY2025
71
Organizations funded FY2024
35%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
50 to 71
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$6.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations The Larson Legacy funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentAnimalsHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving59$210k42%
FY202471$241k35%
FY202353$145k25%
FY202266$173k44%
FY202150$157k40%
FY202071$214kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$341kEmployment$105kHousing & Shelter$103kEducation$94kCommunity Improvement$81kHealth$74kArts & Culture$68kYouth Development$52kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
MI
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OR
NV
OH
CA
VA
NM
NC
SC
DC
HI

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bbh Eye Foundation$133,000525%
Dress for Success Oregon$77,00062%
World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon$75,00042%
Wholistic Peace Institute$70,0006n/a
Agape Village$50,000217%
Focus on Youth$45,750228%
Wayfinding Academy$30,00024%
City Repair Project$30,000260%
Maris Place$29,00044%
Peten Health$25,00038%
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All grantees of The Larson Legacy by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bbh Eye Foundation$133,000525%
Dress for Success Oregon$77,00062%
World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon$75,00042%
Wholistic Peace Institute$70,0006n/a
Agape Village$50,000217%
Focus on Youth$45,750228%
Wayfinding Academy$30,00024%
City Repair Project$30,000260%
Maris Place$29,00044%
Peten Health$25,00038%
Stone Soup Pdx$25,00021%
Ted Foundation Inc$24,50030%
Pro-Choice Oregon Foundation$20,00023%
Servicespace$17,50024%
Healing Art Missions$16,00022%
Brown Hope$16,00030%
Path Home$12,50040%
Union Gospel Mission$12,3005n/a
Northwest Tibetan Cultural Association$12,25022%
Street Roots Inc$12,00030%
Mercy Haven Inc$10,00010%
Common Cause Education Fund$10,00020%
New Directions Education Project$10,0001n/a
Foundation for Western Washington University and Alumni$8,50010%
Palm University Foundation$8,00014%
Portland Table Tennis Club$7,50022%
Commonweal$7,50010%
Lilies of the Field Foundation$6,000236%
Oregon Food Bank$5,80050%
Blanchet House of Hospitality$5,70050%
Pear$5,50020%
Meals on Wheels People Inc$5,50060%
The Artback$5,0001n/a
Society for the Recognition of Art$5,0001n/a
Pile of Puppies$5,000112%
Straightway Services$5,00012%
Marin Shakespeare Company$5,0001n/a
Interstitial Cystitis Association of America Inc$5,00011%
The Forest Stewards Guild$5,0001n/a
Operation Nightwatch - Portland$4,80060%
Project High Hopes$4,50011%
Portland Street Medicine$4,50050%
The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization$4,50040%
McK Pdx Inc$4,0001n/a
Clay Street Table$3,50021%
Clackamas Women's Services$3,30060%
Raphael House of Portland$3,30050%
350pdx$3,30040%
Elakha Alliance$3,0001n/a
Mtn Peaks Therapy Llamas & Alpacas$3,0001n/a
Sisters of the Road Inc$3,00040%
Admire Teachers$3,00015%
Pdx Cat Trapper$3,00013%
Outside In$3,00060%
Depave$3,00020%
Womenfirst Transition Referral Center$3,00011%
Oregon Center for Public Policy$3,00030%
Smart Reading$2,80050%
Animal Aid Inc$2,50040%
Clackamas Service Center$2,50030%
Volunteers of America of Oregon Inc$2,50010%
Central City Concern$2,30040%
Portland Animal Welfare Team$2,30050%
Hygiene4all$2,25040%
Girls Build$2,25050%
All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise$2,25050%
Community Transitional School$2,20040%
Oregon Humane Society$2,20040%
Cat Adoption Team$2,15060%
Black United Fund of Oregon$2,10040%
Right 2 Survive Inc$2,00012%
Artist Mentorship Program$2,00010%
House of Dreams$2,00011%
Street Books$1,80040%
Community Cycling Center$1,80050%
Portland Street Art Alliance$1,60030%
Pdx Diaper Bank$1,60040%
Portland Fruit Tree Project$1,5001n/a
Oregon Community Warehouse Inc$1,50020%
Northwest Mothers Milk Bank$1,40040%
Project Lemonade Inc$1,30020%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon Inc$1,30030%
Zebs Wish Equine Sanctuary$1,10030%
Ethos Inc$1,10030%
Kindness Farm$1,05030%
International Rescue Committee INC$1,00010%
Oregon Friends of Shelter Animals$1,00010%
Eo Wilson Biodiversity Foundation$1,00010%
Universal Play Disc Golf$1,0001n/a
Gleaners of Clackamas County Inc$1,00010%
Oregon Journalism Project$1,00010%
Oregon Justice Resource Center$1,00020%
Friends Involved in Dog Outreach$1,0001n/a
Everett Philharmonic Orchestra$1,0001n/a
Adopt One Block$1,00020%
College Possible Inc$1,00010%
Portland Rescue Mission$1,0001n/a
Willamette Riverkeeper$1,00010%
Store to Door$1,00010%
Allied Arts Foundation$1,0001n/a
Snowcap Community Services$1,00010%
Thimbleberry Collaborative Farm$1,00010%
Baby Blues Connection$1,00011%
Transition Projects Inc$1,00020%
Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future$1,00020%
Family Promise of Tualatin Valley$1,0001n/a
We Care Solar$1,00010%
Artichoke Community Music$1,00010%
Hand 2 Mouth$1,0001n/a
Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine$1,00010%
Friends of Trees$1,00020%
The Pongo Fund$80020%
Project Pooch$80020%
Native American Youth and Family Center$80020%
William Temple House$80020%
The Commons Law Center$55020%
Exotic Bird Rescue of Oregon$5001n/a
Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc$50010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$50010%
Cannon Beach Community Food Pantry$5001n/a
Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon$5001n/a
Grow Portland$5001n/a
Basic Rights Oregon$50010%
New Avenues for Youth Inc$50010%
Nami Multnomah$50010%
Rose Haven Cic$50010%
Paraphrase Productions$50011%
Maui Food Bank Inc$50010%
Urban League of Portland Inc$50010%
Wild Diversity$50010%
Nami Clackamas$50010%
Pacific Refugee Support Group$50010%
Maui United Way$50010%
Write Around Portland$50010%
Northwest Trail Alliance Inc$40020%
Neighbors for Clean Air$40010%
The Cupcake Girls$40010%
Rose City Rollers$40020%
Mother & Child Education Center$40010%
The Dougy Center Inc$30010%
Portland Community Football Club$30010%
Portland Urban Beekeepers$3001n/a
Oregon Bravo Youth Orchestras$30010%
Cracked Pots Inc$30010%
Casa for Children Inc$3001n/a
The Children's Book Bank$3001n/a
Pixie Project Inc$30010%
FB4K Portland Inc$30010%
Growing Gardens$25010%
Free Geek$25010%
Impact Nw$25010%
Chess for Success$25010%
Cascade AIDS Project$25010%
Ocean Blue Project Inc$2501n/a
Period Inc$25010%
Women in Science Portland$2501n/a
Portland Women in Technology Inc$25010%
Bridges Collaborative Care Clinic$2501n/a
Friends of Family Farmers$20010%
Centro Cultural of Washington County$20010%
Minds Matter of Portland Inc$20010%
The Blueprint Foundation$20010%
ChickTech$20010%
Street Soccer USA Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($120k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Larson Legacy supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 136 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBbh Eye Foundation: $133,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetDress for Success Oregon: $77,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetWorld Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon: $75,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetAgape Village: $50,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetFocus on Youth: $45,750 over 2y, 28% of budgetWayfinding Academy: $30,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCity Repair Project: $30,000 over 2y, 60% of budgetMaris Place: $29,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetPeten Health: $25,000 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetStone Soup Pdx: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTed Foundation Inc: $24,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPro-Choice Oregon Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetServicespace: $17,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetHealing Art Missions: $16,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBrown Hope: $16,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPath Home: $12,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNorthwest Tibetan Cultural Association: $12,250 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetStreet Roots Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMercy Haven Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommon Cause Education Fund: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for Western Washington University and Alumni: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPalm University Foundation: $8,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPortland Table Tennis Club: $7,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCommonweal: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLilies of the Field Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetOregon Food Bank: $5,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBlanchet House of Hospitality: $5,700 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPear: $5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMeals on Wheels People Inc: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPile of Puppies: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetStraightway Services: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetInterstitial Cystitis Association of America Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOperation Nightwatch - Portland: $4,800 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetProject High Hopes: $4,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPortland Street Medicine: $4,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetClay Street Table: $3,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetClackamas Women's Services: $3,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRaphael House of Portland: $3,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budget350pdx: $3,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSisters of the Road Inc: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAdmire Teachers: $3,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetPdx Cat Trapper: $3,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetOutside In: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDepave: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomenfirst Transition Referral Center: $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOregon Center for Public Policy: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSmart Reading: $2,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 136.

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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.

Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation TrustOR111× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Autzen Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Collins Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · The Harold & Arlene Schnitzer Care Foundation · The Reser Family Foundation · Juan Young Trust · Careoregon 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.

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About The Larson Legacy

How much does The Larson Legacy give?
The Larson Legacy reported 62 grants totaling $210,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 50 and 71 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Larson Legacy fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (30%), Employment (9%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
Who are The Larson Legacy's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Bbh Eye Foundation ($133k), Dress for Success Oregon ($77k), World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon ($75k).
Does The Larson Legacy fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Larson Legacy accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Larson Legacy?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust, The Autzen Foundation, The Oregon Community Foundation.
Where is The Larson Legacy based?
The Larson Legacy is based in OR.

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 184 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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