· Private foundation
The Larson Legacy
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k56 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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.
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.
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 +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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
- BEBBH EYE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $133k · revenue +134%
- AVAGAPE VILLAGE2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +659%
- WAWayfinding Academy2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- ATAROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICSone grant, 2024 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $15k
- FFFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON Uone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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…
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…
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…
Provide Safe Sleep for Portlanders.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
Open signal's mission is to nurture the change-making power of community media in service of a just and equitable world.
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 field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 BBH EYE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dress for Success Oregon ↗
- Who funds World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon ↗
- Who funds AGAPE VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Wayfinding Academy ↗
- Who funds CITY REPAIR PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds PETEN HEALTH ↗
- Who funds STONE SOUP PDX ↗
- Who funds TED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRO-CHOICE OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SERVICESPACE ↗
- Who funds BROWN HOPE ↗
- Who funds HEALING ART MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds PATH HOME ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST TIBETAN CULTURAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STREET ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW DIRECTIONS EDUCATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Mercy Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds PALM UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEAL ↗
- Who funds Portland Table Tennis Club ↗
- Who funds Lilies of the Field Foundation ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BLANCHET HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY ↗
- Who funds PEAR ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds PILE OF PUPPIES ↗
- Who funds THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD ↗
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: 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.
- Friends of Trees — 100% of income from government
- Willamette Riverkeeper — 42% of income from government
- Grow Portland — 36% of income from government
- Clackamas Women's Services — 33% of income from government
- Outside in — 33% of income from government
- Urban League of Portland Inc — 33% of income from government
- Portland Street Medicine — 32% of income from government
- Transition Projects Inc — 29% of income from government
- Oregon Justice Resource Center — 26% of income from government
- Oregon Community Warehouse Inc — 24% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Stone Soup Pdx — 20% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future — 17% of income from government
- Nami Multnomah — 16% of income from government
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
- Ethos Inc — 13% of income from government
- Cascade Aids Project — 13% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Raphael House of Portland — 10% of income from government
- The Blueprint Foundation — 10% of income from government
- Elakha Alliance — 10% of income from government
- Clackamas Service Center — 9% of income from government
- Friends of Family Farmers — 9% of income from government
- Impact Nw — 8% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- Artichoke Community Music — 7% of income from government
- Clackamas Volunteers in Medicine — 7% of income from government
- Write Around Portland — 6% of income from government
- Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
- Free Geek — 5% of income from government
- The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization — 4% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Pdx Diaper Bank — 2% of income from government
- Community Cycling Center — 2% of income from government
- Casa for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chess for Success — 2% of income from government
- Artist Mentorship Program — 2% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Ages Music Portland dba Friends of Noise — 1% of income from government
- Portland Street Art Alliance — 1% of income from government
- Pear — 1% of income from government
- Black United Fund of Oregon — 1% of income from government
- Cracked Pots Inc — 1% of income from government
- William Temple House — 0% of income from government
- World Affairs Council of Oregon dba WorldOregon — 0% of income from government
- Bird Alliance of Oregon Inc — 0% of income from government
- Centro Cultural of Washington County — 0% of income from government
- Period Inc — 0% of income from government
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.