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The Larson Legacy at a glance

· Private foundation

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2025 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
FOCUS ON YOUTH$25,000
AGAPE VILLAGE$25,000
BBH EYE FOUNDATION$20,000
WHOLISTIC PEACE INSTITUTE$15,000
STONE SOUP PDX$15,000
DRESS FOR SUCCESS OREGON INC$15,000
TED FOUNDATION INC$8,750
PALM UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$8,000
PILE OF PUPPIES$5,000
SOCIETY FOR THE RECOGNITION OF ART$5,000
INTERSTITIAL CYSTITIS ASSOCIATION$5,000
THE FOREST STEWARDS GUILD$5,000
MTN PEAKS THERAPY LLAMAS ALPACAS$3,000
MCK PDX INC$3,000
ADMIRE TEACHERS$3,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its 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%STREET ROOTS INC: $10k → 12%CLACKAMAS SERVICE CENTER: $1k → 8%STONE SOUP PDX: $10k → 12%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%RIGHT 2 SURVIVE INC: $2k → 12%HYGIENE4ALL: $500 → 12%ARTIST MENTORSHIP PROGRAM: $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
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
MN
MI
NY
OR
NV
OH
CA
VA
NM
NC
SC
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of The Larson Legacy’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 71%.

The Larson Legacylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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%
+19%

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
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

  • 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
  • MH
    Mercy Haven Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +47%
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
Earth Day Oregon
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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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Youth and Family Center; 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.
05the grantee network

156 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
50
Early backer (in before they grew)
153/156
Grantees still filing
104/156
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WHOLISTIC PEACE INSTITUTE: $70,000 · OtherWHOLISTIC PEACE INSTITUTEPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDAT: $45,000 · OtherPROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL FOUNDATWayfinding Academy: $30,000 · OtherWayfinding AcademyPRO-CHOICE OREGON FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherAROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY FABRICS: $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 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 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 budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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.

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 Charita…The Autzen FoundationThe Oregon Community …Meyer Memorial TrustThe Collins FoundationOCF Joseph E Weston P…The Jackson FoundationRose E Tucker Charita…The Harold & Arlene S…The Reser Family Foun…Juan Young TrustCareoregon Inc
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Larson Legacy funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Larson Legacy. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 430%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
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, 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 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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