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Laughlin-Beers Foundation at a glance

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Laughlin-Beers Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$313k
Granted FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$469kArts & Culture$304kEnvironment$238kHousing & Shelter$227kEducation$187kFood & Nutrition$181kInternational$165kHuman Services$142kOther$0
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k47 grants · $200k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $113k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$12,500
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WINTER PARK FLORIDA FOUNDATION$10,000
YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE$10,000
HIGHLAND COUNTRY FELLOWSHIP$10,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND$10,000
FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES$10,000
PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC$10,000
ADVENTHEALTH FOUNDATION INC$10,000
PROPUBLICA$10,000
TURNING POINT USA$10,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION$10,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY - SOUTHEAST REGION$7,500
PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$7,500
GRACE MEDICAL HOME$7,500
JUDICIAL WATCH INC$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $153k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PROJECT SELF SUFFICIENCY: $3k → 10%HOSPICE AUSTIN: $10k → 10%FREE FLOW NM INC: $1k → 12%CONVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $3k → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%CHARITY NAVIGATOR: $3k → 7%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $10k → 16%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE (LIFEWORKS): $10k → 10%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE (LIFEWORKS): $10k → 10%JUBILEE PARK & COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 14%LIFESAVERS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%LIFESAVERS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%ARC OF LARIMER COUNTY: $5k → 11%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $10k → 10%LIFESAVERS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%LIFESAVERS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%HOMEWARD ALLIANCE: $7k → 11%HOMEWARD ALLIANCE: $6k → 11%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $5k → 10%HOMEWARD ALLIANCE: $5k → 11%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE (LIFEWORKS): $5k → 10%HOMEWARD ALLIANCE: $5k → 11%YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $5k → 10%HOMEWARD ALLIANCE: $4k → 11%HOMEWARD ALLIANCE: $4k → 11%HOMEWARD ALLIANCE: $4k → 11%HOMEWARD ALLIANCE: $3k → 11%HOMELESS GEAR: $3k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA: $5k → 13%CONNECTING POINT OF PARK CITIES: $3k → 14%ONE HEART FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $3k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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MN
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Laughlin-Beers Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Laughlin-Beers Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.8% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 92 repeat orgs$436k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

92 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
60

Total granted

$2.2M
$387k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+30%

Still filing today

83%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationInternationalEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS
    6× · 2017–2022 · $95k · revenue +34%
  • FC
    FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $73k · revenue +176%
  • WV
    Wimberley Valley Watershed Association
    4× · 2017–2020 · $67k · revenue +584%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2017 · $58k
  • The Houston Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +107%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -1%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
2
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International
8
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

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9
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
10
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
11
Open Technology Fund

The open technology fund aims to advance internet freedom globally by supporting the research, development, implementation, and maintenance of technologies that provide secure and uncensored access to the internet.

Arts & Culture
12
Third Way

To research and develop centrist policy ideas.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Envision Dallas Lighthouse Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Lake Fork Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

134 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 134 of the 165 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
133/134
Grantees still filing
97/134
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY RIVER MISSION INC: $84,500 · OtherTRINITY RIVER MISSION INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $57,500 · OtherThe Houston Food Bank: $50,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $42,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $66,500 · OtherFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $72,500 · OtherFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INCThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $50,000 · Other+73 more: $851,000 · Other+73 moreGrace Medical Home Inc: $64,000 · HealthGrace Medical Home…PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $62,500 · HealthPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $56,500 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLA…PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $47,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $37,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITE…Orange Free Clinic Inc: $25,500 · HealthOrange Free Clinic…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $22,500 · HealthAdventHealth Foundation Inc: $20,000 · HealthPROJECT ALS INC: $15,500 · HealthOrlando Health Foundation Inc: $15,000 · Health+12 more: $65,000 · Health+12 moreMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $63,500 · Arts & CultureMONTPELIER …ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC: $56,000 · Arts & CultureARTS CENTER…PRO PUBLICA INC: $40,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA…ORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureORLANDO MUS…FOUNDATION MUSIC SCHOOL: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $15,000 · Arts & CultureVirginia Museum of Fine Arts Foundation: $13,500 · Arts & CultureKARL STIRNER ARTS TRAIL: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $40,500 · Arts & Culture+10 moreWimberley Valley Watershed Association: $67,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationWILKINSON CENTER: $29,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $9,000 · EducationST ANNE'S-BELFIELD INC: $8,500 · Education+6 more: $26,000 · EducationINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $95,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $18,000 · InternationalTOUCH-A-LIFE: $17,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $17,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $12,500 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $9,000 · International+3 more: $10,500 · InternationalSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $82,500 · EnvironmentGREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE: $40,000 · EnvironmentTHE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $13,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $10,000 · EnvironmentGreenspace Dallas: $7,500 · Environment+2 more: $7,500 · EnvironmentYOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $55,000 · Human ServicesHOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC: $41,000 · Human ServicesLIFESAVERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE AUSTIN: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE FLORIDA INC: $7,500 · Human Services+9 more: $29,500 · Human Services
Other$1,274,500Health$431,000Arts & Culture$283,500Education$197,000International$179,500Environment$160,500Human Services$160,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS: $95,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRINITY RIVER MISSION INC: $84,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $82,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC: $72,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWimberley Valley Watershed Association: $67,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA: $66,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGrace Medical Home Inc: $64,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMONTPELIER FOUNDATION: $63,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC: $62,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $56,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC: $56,000 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetYOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE: $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $50,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC: $47,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $42,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC: $41,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE: $40,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS FOR FORT COLLINS COLORADO INC: $34,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY: $30,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Virginia: $29,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWILKINSON CENTER: $29,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIN COUNTY: $27,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOrange Free Clinic Inc: $25,500 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for African American Health: $22,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER DALLAS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARRL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetORLANDO MUSEUM OF ART INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAdventHealth Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CLIMATE PARTNERS: $18,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetLAKE FORK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetTOUCH-A-LIFE: $17,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC: $15,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY RIVER MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Wimberley Valley Watershed Association ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds Grace Medical Home Inc ↗
  • Who funds MONTPELIER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTS CENTER IN ORANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH AND FAMILY ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
  • Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER EDWARDS AQUIFER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS FOR FORT COLLINS COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Virginia ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Orange Free Clinic Inc ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Center for African American Health ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ORLANDO UNION RESCUE MISSION INC ↗

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.

Charlottesville Area …Communities Foundatio…Austin Community Foun…The Bessemer Giving F…The Community Foundat…Community Foundation …Otter Cares Foundatio…Valley Charitable Tru…Central Florida Found…United Way of Metropo…The Moody FoundationThe Elinor and Tw Mil…
Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA23.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Valley Charitable Trust · Central Florida Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · The Moody Foundation · The Elinor and Tw Miller Jr Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Laughlin-Beers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laughlin-Beers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Covenant House Florida Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rollins College: 0% of income from government
  • Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Orlando Museum of Art Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Laughlin-Beers Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Laughlin-Beers 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 165 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home