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John P Laucus Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$36k
Granted FY2026still arriving
13
Grants FY2026still arriving
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212026.

Human Services$49kHousing & Shelter$34kEducation$19kHealth$18kInternational$18kFood & Nutrition$11kArts & Culture$4k
02FY2026 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$221k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE$4,500
GAFNEY LIBRARY$4,500
SIMON OF CYRENE SOCIETY$3,500
HAITIAN PROJECT$3,500
THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE$3,500
JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM$3,000
EAST END HOUSE$2,500
ROSIE'S PLACE$2,500
BROOKLYN BOOK FESTIVAL$2,500
TRENTON AREA SOUP KITCHEN$2,000
BELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION$1,500
NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK$1,500
WAKEFIELD FOOD PANTRY$1,000
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 (FY21–26, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $3k → 16%THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE: $4k → 9%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $2k → 7%THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE: $4k → 9%THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE: $3k → 9%THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE: $3k → 9%THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE: $3k → 9%THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE: $2k → 9%EAST END HOUSE: $3k → 8%EAST END HOUSE: $3k → 8%EAST END HOUSE: $2k → 8%EAST END HOUSE: $2k → 8%EAST END HOUSE: $1k → 8%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $3k → 16%EAST END HOUSE: $1k → 8%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $3k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $3k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $3k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $2k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $2k → 16%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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$138k · 10 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2026, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$138k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+49%

Still filing today

100%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionInternationalHousing & ShelterReligionOther

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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC
    5× · 2022–2026 · $21k · revenue +7%
  • TR
    Thames River Community Service Inc
    6× · 2021–2026 · $18k · revenue +41%
  • TH
    THE HAITIAN PROJECT INC
    6× · 2021–2026 · $18k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • JC
    JF&CS CHAI LITERACY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +49%
  • HF
    HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS
    one grant, 2021 · $3k

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
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
2
East Boston Community Soup Kitchen Inc

To feed, shelter and assist with recovery and self-care the hungry and homeless in our community, and to do so without judgement or exclusivity

Human Services
3
Sojourner House Inc

Sojourner house is a shelter of hope for families;providing a circle of support and empowering them towards independence.

Housing & Shelter
4
Bread & Roses Inc

Bread & roses, inc. provides meals and other related services for persons in need primarily from the city of lawrence, massachusetts.

Food & Nutrition
5
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

6
Hartford Catholic Worker Inc

The mission of Hartford Catholic Worker is to practice the works of mercy. We do this through our work with children and families in our neighborhood, helping to make sure the hungry are fed and helping secure housing for the homeless.

International
7
Woburn Council of Social Concern Inc

Woburn Council of Social Concern (D.B.A. Council of Social Concern) is a charitable, community-based agency, responding to the basic needs of people of all ages, providing early childhood education and care, helping individuals develop…

8
Triangle Inc

Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.

9
Housing Assistance Corporation

Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…

Housing & Shelter
10
Emmaus Inc

We affirm the value of human dignity and self-respect for every person. We are called by our collective spiritual and social responsibility to serve all people in need: The homeless, disadvantaged, disabled, unemployed and oppressed. Our…

Human Services
11
House of Hope Housing Inc

To promote improved social and economic conditions of families who are or who have recently been homeless; to promote, develop, and manage affordable housing for families and to assist in carrying out the charitable purposes of house of…

Housing & Shelter
12
The Shared Living Collaborative Inc

To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Brooklyn Book Festival Inc. 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

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 16 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $21,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INCSIMON OF CYRENE SOCIETY INC CO WESTON ASSOCIATES INC — $18,000 · OtherSIMON OF CYRENE SOCIETY INC CO WESTON ASSOC…Gafney Library Inc — $13,000 · OtherGafney Library IncJF&CS CHAI LITERACY FOUNDATION — $4,000 · OtherJF&CS CHAI LITERACY FOUNDATIONHEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS — $3,000 · OtherThames River Community Service Inc — $18,000 · Human ServicesThames River Community Service IncJulies Family Learning Program Inc — $14,000 · Human ServicesJulies Family Learning Program IncEAST END HOUSE INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesEAST END HOUSE INCBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS…+1 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE HAITIAN PROJECT INC — $18,000 · InternationalTHE HAITIAN P…ROSIE'S PLACE INC — $13,000 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S P…TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc — $8,500 · Food & NutritionBrooklyn Book Festival Inc — $3,500 · EducationBELIEVE IN BOOKS LITERACY FOUNDATION — $1,500 · EducationWakefield Food Pantry Inc — $1,000 · Religion
Other$59,000Human Services$47,500International$18,000Housing & Shelter$13,000Food & Nutrition$8,500Education$5,000Religion$1,000

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 budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThames River Community Service Inc — $18,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HAITIAN PROJECT INC — $18,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSIMON OF CYRENE SOCIETY INC CO WESTON ASSOCIATES INC — $18,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetJulies Family Learning Program Inc — $14,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGafney Library Inc — $13,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetEAST END HOUSE INC — $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc — $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $3,000 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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 John P Laucus 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
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Thames River Community Service Inc76% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc8% of income from government
  • East End House Inc3% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to John P Laucus Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John P Laucus Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 16 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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