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The Lion Glass Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$13k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
83%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 11
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$164k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 83% of the organizations The Lion Glass Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 91% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentEducationHealthInternationalOther
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 arriving8$13k75%
FY20246$11k83%
FY20234$4k100%
FY20217$12k86%
FY20207$12k71%
FY201911$16k73%
FY20186$11k67%
FY20178$22kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$21kArts & Culture$14kEducation$14kInternational$12kHuman Services$11kAnimals$9kHealth$6kEnvironment$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
NY
OR
IN
CO
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Port Townsend Aero Museum$12,00071%
Clean Water for Haiti$11,0002n/a
Adventures Without Limits$7,0002n/a
Everstrong Prevention$6,00010%
Westlake Academy Foundation$6,00010%
The Washington STEM Center$6,00010%
Why Community$6,0001n/a
Share$2,00020%
Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc$2,0002n/a
Freedom Service Dogs Inc$2,00020%
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All grantees of The Lion Glass Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Port Townsend Aero Museum$12,00071%
Clean Water for Haiti$11,0002n/a
Adventures Without Limits$7,0002n/a
Everstrong Prevention$6,00010%
Westlake Academy Foundation$6,00010%
The Washington STEM Center$6,00010%
Why Community$6,0001n/a
Share$2,00020%
Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc$2,0002n/a
Freedom Service Dogs Inc$2,00020%
Columbia River Mental Health Foundation$1,0001n/a
LArche Portland$1,00010%
Literary Arts Inc$1,0001n/a
Xerces Society Inc$1,00010%
Free Clinic of Southwest Washington$1,00010%
American Society for Deaf Children$1,00010%
Mentors of Boys$1,0001n/a
Nw Honey Bee Habitat Restoration$1,0001n/a
Washington Water Trails Association$1,00011%
Ehlers-Danlos Society$1,0001n/a
We Love Clean Rivers Inc$1,0001n/a
Autism Spectrum Disorder Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc$1,0001n/a
Global Sojourns Giving Circle$1,00011%
Wildland Firefighter Foundation$1,00010%
Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon$1,00010%
Open House Ministries$1,00010%
Furry Friends$1,00011%
Game to Grow$1,0001n/a
Backcountry Discovery Routes$1,00010%
Second Chance Companions$1,00011%
Washington State University Foundation$1,00010%
Cat Adoption Team$1,0001n/a
Oceana Inc$1,00010%
Divers Alert Network$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($16k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lion Glass Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPort Townsend Aero Museum: $12,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetEverstrong Prevention: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWestlake Academy Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Washington STEM Center: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShare: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom Service Dogs Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLArche Portland: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetXerces Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFree Clinic of Southwest Washington: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Society for Deaf Children: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWashington Water Trails Association: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGlobal Sojourns Giving Circle: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWildland Firefighter Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeral Cat Coalition of Oregon: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOpen House Ministries: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFurry Friends: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBackcountry Discovery Routes: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSecond Chance Companions: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWashington State University Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOceana Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDivers Alert Network: $1,000 over 1y, 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 21.

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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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR21.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Firstenburg Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Broughton & Mary Bishop Fam Fdn Agy · Remax Pnw Foundation · The Swigert Foundation · Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund · Juan Young Trust · Columbus Foundation

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 Lion Glass Foundation

How much does The Lion Glass Foundation give?
The Lion Glass Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $13,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Lion Glass Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (21%), Arts & Culture (14%), Education (14%).
Who are The Lion Glass Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Port Townsend Aero Museum ($12k), Clean Water for Haiti ($11k), Adventures Without Limits ($7k).
Does The Lion Glass Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Lion Glass Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Lion Glass Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust, M J Murdock Charitable Trust.
Where is The Lion Glass Foundation based?
The Lion Glass Foundation is based in WA.

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 46 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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