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Laughlin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$567k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$28,382
Largest grant, FY2025
$170,138
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$11M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Environment$481kEducation$170kReligion$170kArts & Culture$113kHealth$113kPhilanthropy$57kAnimals$28k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Michigan Wildlife Habitat Foundatio$339,813236%
Ella Sharp Museum Association of Jackson$113,27125%
Henry Ford Health System$113,27120%
The Dahlem Conservancy$113,27128%
St Pauls Episcopal Church$63,7821n/a
Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Inc$56,63520%
Ducks Unlimited Inc$28,27910%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($134k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Laughlin Foundation

How much does Laughlin Foundation give?
Laughlin Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $567,126 in its FY2025 IRS filing.
What does Laughlin Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (42%), Education (15%), Religion (15%).
Who are Laughlin Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Michigan Wildlife Habitat Foundatio ($340k), Ella Sharp Museum Association of Jackson ($113k), Henry Ford Health System ($113k).
Does Laughlin 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 Laughlin Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Laughlin Foundation based?
Laughlin Foundation is based in OH.

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 11 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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