· Private foundation
Laughing Gull Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k45 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k71 grants · $5.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTHERN EQUALITY | $160,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY | $150,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD FUNDERS GROUP | $150,000 |
| EQUALITY VIRGINIA | $125,000 |
| EQUALITY NC FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA | $105,000 |
| CENTER FOR HEIRS' PROP PRESERVATIO | $100,000 |
| FREEDOM CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE | $100,000 |
| APPALACHIAN VOICES | $100,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY | $100,000 |
| OPERATION RESTORATION | $100,000 |
| TAPROOT EARTH | $100,000 |
| FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES | $90,000 |
| TIME OUT YOUTH | $90,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR HIGHER ED IN PRISON | $90,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 39% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
121 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- CFCampaign For Southern Equality8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +275%
- OROPERATION RESTORATION7× · 2018–2024 · $945k · revenue +46%
- FFFUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES8× · 2017–2024 · $920k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- JAJUSTICE40 ACCELERATORone grant, 2023 · $150k
- GCGULF COAST CENTER FOR LAW & POLICYone grant, 2022 · $100k
- SBSide By Sideone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +6%
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.
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…
Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…
The Southern Center for Human Rights is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South. SCHR fights for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the…
To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.
Transgender Law Center TLC changes law, policy and attitudes so that all people can live safely, authentically, and free from discrimination regardless of their gender identity or expression.
Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…
Queer Power Alliance is rooted in the LGBTQIA+ community and in solidarity with other marginalized communities. We strive for equity by disrupting systems of oppression holding back LGBTQIA+ communities through advocating, educating,…
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…
The NCAAN improves the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS and affected communities through outreach and public education, policy advocacy and community-building to increase visibility and mutual support of people living with HIV/AIDS…
EQTX Equality Texas dba Equality Texas works to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Federation Institute and the most unlike its peers is Richmond Memorial Health Foundation. 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 25 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
134 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. 134 of the 230 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Campaign For Southern Equality ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RESTORATION ↗
- Who funds FUNDERS FOR LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES INC DBA FUNDERS FOR LGBTQ ISSUES ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds Freedom Center for Social Justice ↗
- Who funds LIFE UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY NC ↗
- Who funds EQUALITY VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds The LGBTQ Center of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE AND COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Nationz Foundation ↗
- Who funds SIDE BY SIDE VA INC ↗
- Who funds Time Out Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Funders Group ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY ↗
- Who funds LGBT CENTER OF RALEIGH INC ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds CLAFLIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEALTH BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA CONSERVATION VOTERS ED FUND ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ANTI-VIOLENCE PROJECT ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · Windward Fund · Tides Foundation · Tides Center · Proteus Fund Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Groundswell 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 Laughing Gull 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- National Black Justice Coalition Inc — 17% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Justice Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Goucher College — 0% 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.