· Private foundation
J&S Laidig Family Foundation Inc 3717
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k50 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $173k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Studio Ten Ministries | $106,000 |
| Build Promise | $67,000 |
| Headington Institute | $44,000 |
| Alpha Care | $20,000 |
| The Place of Refuge | $20,000 |
| St Luke's Mission of Mercy | $20,000 |
| Friends in Deed | $20,000 |
| Churches in Action | $10,000 |
| Orphanos | $8,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club Buffalo | $5,000 |
| Union Station Homeless Services | $5,000 |
| Knox Presbyterian Church | $5,000 |
| Emmada | $5,000 |
| Tenth Presbyterian Church ESO | $5,000 |
| Faith in Place | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $375k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
79 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- POPlace of Refuge Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $161k · revenue +40%
Compassion International Incorporated9× · 2017–2025 · $149k · revenue +16%- APALPHA PREGNANCY SERVICES INC6× · 2017–2022 · $79k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- HMHOPE MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $87k
- TWTHE WYN AND CAROL LAIDIG FOUNDATION INC AGEone grant, 2017 · $74k · revenue +5%
- CNCEF North Central Indianaone grant, 2024 · $65k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Episcopal relief & development (the organization") is an affiliate of the domestic and foreign missionary society of the protestant episcopal church of the united states of america (the "society or "dfms"). (see schedule o)
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
International needs has the vision to transform lives and change communities by helping christian nationals serve both god and neighbor within their own countries.
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Esperanza Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Wyn and Carol Laidig Foundation Inc Age. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
62 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. 62 of the 129 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HEADINGTON INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Place of Refuge Inc ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds BUILD PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds STUDIO TEN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PREGNANCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WYN AND CAROL LAIDIG FOUNDATION INC AGE ↗
- Who funds Churches in Action Inc ↗
- Who funds Orphanos Foundation ↗
- Who funds REFUGE FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds MADONNA OF THE STREETS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ONE ACCORD T/A KIDS ALLEY ↗
- Who funds DUNKIRK CONFERENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOLA MEDIA ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Wh Greene Foundation · Rich Family Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Lakeridge Foundation · Evans Devereux Memorial Fund Ua 11 Uw Virginia Devereux · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · Feedmore Western New York Inc
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 J&S Laidig Family Foundation Inc 3717 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
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.
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