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The Larson Legacy

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$210k
Granted FY2025still arriving
62
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

International$341kEmployment$105kHousing & Shelter$103kEducation$94kCommunity Improvement$81kHealth$74kArts & Culture$68kYouth Development$52kOther$0
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k56 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AGAPE VILLAGE$25,000
FOCUS ON YOUTH$25,000
BBH EYE FOUNDATION$20,000
DRESS FOR SUCCESS OREGON INC$15,000
STONE SOUP PDX$15,000
WHOLISTIC PEACE INSTITUTE$15,000
TED FOUNDATION INC$8,750
PALM UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$8,000
PILE OF PUPPIES$5,000
THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD$5,000
INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS ASSOCIATION$5,000
SOCIETY FOR THE RECOGNITION OF ART$5,000
ADMIRE TEACHERS$3,000
MCK PDX INC$3,000
ELAKHA ALLIANCE$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COMMONWEAL: $8k → 8%STONE SOUP PDX: $15k → 12%CUPAKE GIRLS: $400 → 13%STREET SOCCER USA INC: $100 → 17%STONE SOUP PDX: $10k → 12%STREET ROOTS INC: $10k → 12%CLACKAMAS SERVICE CENTER: $1k → 8%CLACKAMAS SERVICE CENTER: $1k → 8%CLACKAMAS SERVICE CENTER: $500 → 8%STREET ROOTS: $2k → 12%CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES: $1k → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES: $600 → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES: $500 → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES: $500 → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES: $500 → 8%CLACKAMAS WOMENS SERVICES: $200 → 8%STREET ROOTS: $500 → 12%HYGIENE4ALL: $1k → 12%ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM: $2k → 12%HYGIENE4ALL: $500 → 12%RIGHT 2 SURVIVE INC: $2k → 12%HYGIENE4ALL: $500 → 12%HYGIENE4ALL: $250 → 12%SNOW CAP COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $1k → 12%URBAN LEAGUE OF PORTLAND INC: $500 → 12%CHICK TECH: $200 → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $1k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $500 → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $500 → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $500 → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $500 → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $300 → 12%STORE TO DOOR: $1k → 12%PORTLAND REFUGEE SUPPORT GROUP: $500 → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $250 → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS OREGON INC: $15k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS OREGON INC: $15k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS OREGON INC: $15k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS OREGON INC: $12k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS OREGON INC: $10k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS OREGON INC: $10k → 12%STRAIGHTWAY SERVICES: $5k → 12%OREGON COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $1k → 12%OREGON COMMUNITY WAREHOUSE INC: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of The Larson Legacy’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in OR; read by stated purpose it is 71% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Larson Legacylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.5% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$939k · 79 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

79 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
79

Total granted

$939k
$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+17%

Still filing today

90%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • BE
    BBH EYE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $133k · revenue +134%
  • AV
    AGAPE VILLAGE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +659%
  • WA
    Wayfinding Academy
    2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • AT
    AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON U
    one grant, 2024 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Earth Day Oregon
2
Welcome Home Coalition

Welcome Home is a diverse coalition in the Portland metropolitan region that uses its collective resources to create healthy communities by ensuring everyone has an affordable and stable home. We use community education and collaboration…

Community Improvement
3
Portland Trails

Over the next five years, portland trails will work to transform greater portland into a regional hub of connectivity and sustainability. by facilitating the expansion and enhancement of our trail network, we will foster inclusive…

Environment
4
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
5
Right 2 Dream Too

Provide Safe Sleep for Portlanders.

Recreation & Sports
6
The Everly Project

Our mission is to provide trauma-informed harm reduction services to people who are unhoused in the Portland Metro area. Our focus is on mental health services, nursing care, extreme weather supplies, food and safer use supplies for people…

Health
7
Opportunity Oregon Inc

Our mission is to find employment for justice-involved individuals through prison outreach, employer education & business development services. We partner with the Oregon department of corrections and justice-oriented organizations. We…

Crime & Legal
8
Outgrowing Hunger

We nurture connections between people,nature,and food by ensuring access to garden space and farmland, and providing education and mentoring on regenerative and sustainable agricultural practices.

Food & Nutrition
9
Community Alliance of Tenants

To educate and empower tenants to demand safe, stable and affordable rental homes. we believe that housing is the basis of a strong community. so we bring tenants together to organize and collectively advocate for fair and equal…

Housing & Shelter
10
Portland Harbor Community Coalition

Portland Harbor Community Coalition (PHCC) organizes frontline groups and individuals to heal the water, land, and air in and around the Wa'lmaomt (Willamette River) federal Superfund area, polluted from over a century of heavy industrial…

Environment
11
Portland Community Media

Open signal's mission is to nurture the change-making power of community media in service of a just and equitable world.

Arts & Culture
12
Future Prairie

Founded in January 2018, Future Prairie is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit queer artist collective in Portland, Oregon. We pay LGBTQIA+ Oregon-based artists to design, curate, and produce art projects that showcase new and better dreams of the…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Youth and Family Center and the most unlike its peers is Project High Hopes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%16%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr21%30%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr13%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%33%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr21%37%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr13%13%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.6% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/165
the rest of the field
11%
3,399/30,365

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.

05the grantee network

156 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 156 of the 184 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
50
Early backer (in before they grew)
153/156
Grantees still filing
103/156
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WHOLISTIC PEACE INSTITUTE — $70,000 · OtherWHOLISTIC PEACE INSTITUTEPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDAT — $45,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATWayfinding Academy — $30,000 · OtherWayfinding AcademyAROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS — $20,000 · OtherPRO-CHOICE OREGON FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Other+120 more — $290,150 · Other+120 moreDress for Success Oregon — $77,000 · Human ServicesDress for Succ…STONE SOUP PDX — $25,000 · Human ServicesSTONE SOUP PDXSTREET ROOTS INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesSTREET ROOTS I…COMMONWEAL — $7,500 · Human Services+20 more — $29,950 · Human Services+20 moreBBH EYE FOUNDATION — $133,000 · HealthBBH EYE FOUNDA…+11 more — $17,250 · Health+11 moreWorld Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon — $75,000 · InternationalWorld Affai…PETEN HEALTH — $25,000 · InternationalPETEN HEALT…HEALING ART MISSIONS — $16,000 · InternationalHEALING ART…+2 more — $1,500 · InternationalCITY REPAIR PROJECT — $30,000 · Community ImprovementTED FOUNDATION INC — $24,500 · Community ImprovementSERVICESPACE — $17,500 · Community ImprovementBROWN HOPE — $16,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $1,000 · Community ImprovementFOCUS ON YOUTH — $45,750 · Youth DevelopmentMaris Place — $29,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD — $5,000 · Youth Development+5 more — $3,800 · Youth DevelopmentAGAPE VILLAGE — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterPATH HOME — $12,500 · Housing & ShelterMercy Haven Inc — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterPEAR — $5,500 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$475,150Human Services$151,450Health$150,250International$117,500Community Improvement$89,000Youth Development$83,550Housing & Shelter$78,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetBROWN HOPE — $16,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHEALING ART MISSIONS — $16,000 over 2y, 1.9% 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 budgetCOMMONWEAL — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPortland Table Tennis Club — $7,500 over 2y, 2.3% 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 budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Nightwatch - Portland — $4,800 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND STREET MEDICINE — $4,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT HIGH HOPES — $4,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetClay Street Table — $3,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND — $3,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLACKAMAS WOMEN'S SERVICES — $3,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budget350PDX — $3,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSISTERS OF THE ROAD INC — $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOUTSIDE IN — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPDX CAT TRAPPER — $3,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetADMIRE TEACHERS — $3,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetOREGON CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDEPAVE — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENFIRST TRANSITION REFERRAL CENTER — $3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSMART READING — $2,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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

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 The Larson Legacy 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 430%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Friends of Trees100% of income from government
  • Willamette Riverkeeper42% of income from government
  • Grow Portland36% of income from government
  • Clackamas Women's Services33% of income from government
  • Outside in33% of income from government
  • Urban League of Portland Inc33% of income from government
  • Portland Street Medicine32% of income from government
  • Transition Projects Inc29% of income from government
  • Oregon Justice Resource Center26% of income from government
  • Oregon Community Warehouse Inc24% of income from government
  • Native American Youth and Family Center23% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank21% of income from government
  • Stone Soup Pdx20% of income from government
  • New Avenues for Youth Inc20% of income from government
  • Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future17% of income from government
  • Nami Multnomah16% of income from government
  • Project Lemonade Inc15% of income from government
  • Ethos Inc13% of income from government
  • Cascade Aids Project13% of income from government
  • Central City Concern10% of income from government
  • Raphael House of Portland10% of income from government
  • The Blueprint Foundation10% of income from government
  • Elakha Alliance10% of income from government
  • Clackamas Service Center9% of income from government
  • Friends of Family Farmers9% of income from government
  • Impact Nw8% of income from government
  • Community Transitional School7% of income from government
  • Artichoke Community Music7% of income from government
  • Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine7% of income from government
  • Write Around Portland6% of income from government
  • Growing Gardens6% of income from government
  • Free Geek5% of income from government
  • The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization4% of income from government
  • Smart Reading3% of income from government
  • Pdx Diaper Bank2% of income from government
  • Community Cycling Center2% of income from government
  • Casa for Children Inc2% of income from government
  • Chess for Success2% of income from government
  • Artist Mentorship Program2% of income from government
  • The Dougy Center Inc1% of income from government
  • All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise1% of income from government
  • Portland Street Art Alliance1% of income from government
  • Pear1% of income from government
  • Black United Fund of Oregon1% of income from government
  • Cracked Pots Inc1% of income from government
  • William Temple House0% of income from government
  • World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon0% of income from government
  • Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc0% of income from government
  • Centro Cultural of Washington County0% of income from government
  • Period Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
43get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 184 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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