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The Yuen Larson Legacy 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.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$79kReligion$12kHealth$5kScience & Tech$3kYouth Development$1kPhilanthropy$1kArts & Culture$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$373k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARLETON COLLEGE$10,000
PUNAHOU SCHOOL$2,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$2,000
KENSINGTON COMMUNITY CHURCH$1,110
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$1,000
PACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $2k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%CARLETON COLLEGE: $30k → 11%PACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT: $1k → 11%GOFUNDME: $1k → 14%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $2k → 9%AMERICAN HEART: $2k → 14%ADA ONLINE: $500 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUN: $100 → 9%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%CARLETON COLLEGE: $10k → 11%KENSINGTON COMMUNITY CHURCH: $3k → 11%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $2k → 9%AMERICAN HEART: $1k → 14%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%CARLETON COLLEGE: $10k → 11%KENSINGTON COMMUNITY CHURCH: $3k → 11%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $1k → 9%AMERICAN HEART: $1k → 14%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%CARLETON COLLEGE: $5k → 11%KENSINGTON COMMUNITY CHURCH: $2k → 11%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $1k → 9%CARLETON COLLEGE: $5k → 11%KENSINGTON COMMUNITY CHURCH: $2k → 11%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $900 → 9%CARLETON COLLEGE: $5k → 11%KENSINGTON COMMUNITY CHURCH: $1k → 11%PUNAHOU SCHOOL: $600 → 9%KENSINGTON COMMUNITY CHURCH: $1k → 11%KENSINGTON COMMUNITY CHURH: $600 → 11%GOPEDAL ORG: $500 → 11%CUREBOUND ORG: $78 → 11%PEDAL THE CUASE SAN DIEGO: $515 → 11%PEDAL THE CUASE SAN DIEGO: $50 → 11%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SAN DIEGO: $700 → 11%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SAN DIEGO: $500 → 11%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$96k · 7 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$96k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+41%

Still filing today

57%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • CC
    CARLETON COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +31%
  • PS
    PUNAHOU SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +33%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • G
    GOFUNDMEORGgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +41%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $600
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $500
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
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
2
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
11
National University

To deliver accessible world-class student experiences by providing quality programs and services that ensure student success through meaningful learning. to be an inclusive and innovative university serving life-long learners who…

Education
12
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Puget Sound; the most unlike its peers is Pacific Arts Movement. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CARLETON COLLEGE: $65,000 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGEPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $7,881 · EducationPUNAHOU SCHOOLNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $6,181 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationKENSINGTON COMMUNITY CHURCH: $11,506 · OtherKENSINGTON COMMUNITY…AMERICAN HEART: $4,000 · OtherAMERICAN HEARTBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SAN DIEGO: $1,200 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SIS…+5 more: $1,784 · Other+5 morePACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT: $1,000 · Arts & CultureGOFUNDMEORG: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCUREBOUND: $565 · Health
Education$82,162Other$18,490Arts & Culture$1,000Philanthropy$1,000Health$565

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPUNAHOU SCHOOL: $7,881 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $6,181 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUREBOUND: $565 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PUNAHOU SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC ARTS MOVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
  • Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 16 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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