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Lelooska Foundation

Lelooska Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $448,874 to it, the largest being THE FIRSTENBURG FOUNDATION ($154,195). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$242k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$449k
Net assets
$815k
9/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Lelooska Foundation does

Mission

Educate about Native Americans of the NW and North America.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Over 10,000 people attended the Living History Museum and Programs, or attended evening programs individually or as part of a school program during the year.

    $253,224 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $253,224.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($164k) Expenses 100 ($137k) Net assets 100 ($519k)2018 Revenue 128 ($210k) Expenses 106 ($146k) Net assets 112 ($583k)2019 Revenue 139 ($227k) Expenses 125 ($172k) Net assets 123 ($639k)2020 Revenue 67 ($109k) Expenses 55 ($75k) Net assets 130 ($673k)2021 Revenue 113 ($184k) Expenses 79 ($108k) Net assets 144 ($749k)2022 Revenue 156 ($255k) Expenses 94 ($129k) Net assets 169 ($875k)2023 Revenue 184 ($301k) Expenses 219 ($300k) Net assets 169 ($876k)2024 Revenue 148 ($242k) Expenses 221 ($303k) Net assets 157 ($815k)
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Revenue (148)Expenses (221)Net assets (157)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $585k to $868k (+48%).

$519k
$585k
$868k
$821k
$866k
$942k
$879k
$823k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 6% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

74% of Lelooska Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$26k
’17
$64k
’18
$56k
’19
$34k
’20
$76k
’21
$126k
’22
$1k
’23
−$61k
’24
3.9
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed88888888
Joined·+1+0+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·1000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $22k → $51k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of Lelooska Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Lelooska Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

42% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Lelooska Foundation.

34%
largest funder
74%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 84% · 2019 77% · 2020 38% · 2021 51% · 2022 58% · 2023 49% — diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

57% of Lelooska Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

91% of Lelooska Foundation's grant income comes from Washington funders.

WA
IL
NY
OR
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Lelooska Foundation's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−25% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 14%Fundraising 2%

Governance

8
board members
75%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Lelooska Foundation?
Lelooska Foundation (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $448,874 to it, the largest being THE FIRSTENBURG FOUNDATION ($154,195). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Lelooska Foundation have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $448,874 in grants to Lelooska Foundation, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Lelooska Foundation?
THE FIRSTENBURG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $154,195 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Lelooska Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing