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CB Laub Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Environment$783kInternational$496kHealth$134kAnimals$72kEducation$33kCrime & Legal$23kFood & Nutrition$21kCivil Rights$17kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $183k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $109k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $713k
$7,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$847k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Pathfinder International$200,000
Oceana$200,000
Environmental Defense Fund$160,000
Earthjustice$85,000
EngenderHealth$68,000
Population Action International$35,600
Montgomery County Humane Society$32,500
Doctors Without Borders USA$15,000
Capital Area Food Bank$15,000
Coral$10,400
Potomac Conservancy$7,500
Secular Coalition for America Education Fund$7,500
Polar Bears International$7,500
ACLU Foundation$7,500
Individual grant recipient$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RESPECTABILITY: $2k → 8%RESPECTABILITY: $2k → 8%RESPECTABILITY: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
MA
CA
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 39 repeat orgs$58k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
13

Total granted

$1.6M
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+11%

Still filing today

79%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’25
EnvironmentInternationalAnimalsEducationCivil RightsHealthOther

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

  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    4× · 2021–2025 · $234k · revenue +21%
  • EI
    ENGENDERHEALTH INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $122k · revenue +52%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • LO
    LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +39%
  • WD
    WIND DANCE FARM AND EARTH ED CTR
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
  • PB
    POLAR BEAR INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2021 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
2
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
3
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
4
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
5
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
6
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
7
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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8
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
9
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
10
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
11
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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12
National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Potomac Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Animal Rescue and ShelterFood Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Construc…Cancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Developmental Disabilities …Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%61%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,523

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.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
24/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OCEANA INC — $359,200 · EnvironmentOCEANA INCENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $233,800 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDEARTHJUSTICE — $89,500 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE+6 more — $54,000 · Environment+6 morePATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL — $370,400 · InternationalPATHFINDER INTERNATIONALENGENDERHEALTH INC — $121,600 · InternationalENGENDERHEALTH INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $19,500 · International+4 more — $45,000 · International+4 moreCoral — $26,800 · OtherCoralSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC — $12,000 · OtherSOS CHILDRE…THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $12,000 · OtherTHE STUDENT…Individual grant recipient — $12,000 · OtherIndividual …HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $10,600 · OtherHABITAT FOR…Polar Bears International — $10,500 · OtherPolar Bears…Individual grant recipient — $10,500 · OtherIndividual …Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund — $7,500 · OtherWARREN WILSON COLLEGE — $10,500 · OtherWARREN WILS…COUNTRY DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY INC — $10,500 · OtherCOUNTRY DAN…Secular Coalition for America Education Fund — $7,500 · Other+22 more — $37,004 · Other+22 morePOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL — $61,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $9,500 · HealthMONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $37,000 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $12,000 · AnimalsAlley Cat Rescue Inc — $6,500 · AnimalsAlley Cat Allies Inc — $4,000 · Animals+1 more — $100 · AnimalsCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $20,500 · Food & NutritionFAIRVOTE — $7,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · Civil RightsSecular Coalition for America Inc — $3,000 · Civil Rights
Environment$736,500International$556,500Other$167,404Health$70,500Animals$59,600Food & Nutrition$20,500Civil Rights$18,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL — $370,400 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOCEANA INC — $359,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $233,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENGENDERHEALTH INC — $121,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $89,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPOPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL — $61,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $37,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $19,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES-USA INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $10,600 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE — $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWIND DANCE FARM & EARTH EDUCATIONCENTER — $10,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP — $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNTRY DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY INC — $10,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Rescue Inc — $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDISABILITY BELONGS — $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DIENER SCHOOL INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSecular Coalition for America Inc — $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC — $554 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPOPULATION CONNECTION — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC — $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKeepers of the Wild — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Robert Wood Johns…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …
The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationNJ14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 CB Laub Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    7get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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