Wisconsin · Private foundation
Laird Youth Leadership Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $60k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Laird Youth Leadership Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $60k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $67k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $53k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $60k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $81k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $99k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $45k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $45k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Second Harvest Heartland | $80,000 | 6 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Foundation Inc | $71,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Marshfield Clinic Health System Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Community Table Inc | $42,500 | 9 | 2% |
| The Shepherds Table Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Center for Domestic Peace Inc | $30,000 | 9 | 54% |
| Way to Grow | $20,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters | $18,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Landon School | $13,500 | 7 | 0% |
| YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Laird Youth Leadership Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
Compare Laird Youth Leadership Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Laird Youth Leadership Foundation Inc
- How much does Laird Youth Leadership Foundation Inc give?
- Laird Youth Leadership Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $60,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Laird Youth Leadership Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (28%), Education (19%), Health (14%).
- Who are Laird Youth Leadership Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Second Harvest Heartland ($80k), University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Foundation Inc ($71k), Marshfield Clinic Health System Foundation Inc ($50k).
- Does Laird Youth Leadership Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Laird Youth Leadership Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Laird Youth Leadership Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, Community Foundation of Central Wisconsin Inc, T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Laird Youth Leadership Foundation Inc based?
- Laird Youth Leadership Foundation Inc is based in WI.
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