North Carolina · 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.
- $6.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 127
- Grants FY2024
- 98
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $160,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 98
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $53M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Laughing Gull Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $799k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 98 | $6.0M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 98 | $6.0M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 93 | $5.6M | 34% |
| FY2021 | 85 | $4.7M | 45% |
| FY2020 | 70 | $4.3M | 39% |
| FY2019 | 57 | $3.5M | 33% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $3.0M | 52% |
| FY2017 | 30 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campaign For Southern Equality | $1,290,925 | 8 | 22% |
| Operation Restoration | $945,400 | 7 | 3% |
| Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues | $920,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Southerners on New Ground Inc | $909,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Freedom Center for Social Justice | $780,000 | 8 | 32% |
| Life University Inc | $635,232 | 8 | 0% |
| Equality Nc | $616,000 | 5 | 92% |
| Equality Virginia Inc | $580,000 | 4 | 25% |
| Borealis Philanthropy | $575,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Rappahannock Community College | $532,984 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 131 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 91 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Laughing Gull Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 117 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About Laughing Gull Foundation
- How much does Laughing Gull Foundation give?
- Laughing Gull Foundation reported 127 grants totaling $6,146,285 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 98 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Laughing Gull Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (24%), Education (19%), Crime & Legal (15%).
- Who are Laughing Gull Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Campaign For Southern Equality ($1.3M), Operation Restoration ($945k), Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues ($920k).
- Does Laughing Gull Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Laughing Gull Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Laughing Gull Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, New Venture Fund, NEO Philanthropy Inc.
- Where is Laughing Gull Foundation based?
- Laughing Gull Foundation is based in NC.
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