· Private foundation
Laughlin Memorial Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k9 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAUGHLIN MEMORIAL FREE LIBRARY | $79,350 |
| MARY & ALEXANDER LAUGHLIN CHILDREN'S CENTER | $35,000 |
| LIFESTEPS OF BEAVER COUNTY INC | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR HOPE | $15,000 |
| SEWICKLEY VALLEY YMCA | $12,500 |
| MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF MIDLAND | $10,000 |
| NEW BRIGHTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $8,735 |
| CORNELL HIGH SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF OLD ECONOMY | $7,000 |
| IRON HORSE THEATRE | $5,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER OF BEAVER COUNTY | $5,000 |
| WE CARE FOOD KITCHEN | $3,000 |
| BF JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| STAY OFF THE STREETS INC | $2,000 |
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, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- LMLaughlin Memorial Library8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +17% · 49% of their budget
- MAMARY & ALEXANDER LAUGHLIN CHILDREN'S CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +66%
- CFCENTER FOR HOPE8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- CLCARNEGIE LIBRARY OF MIDLANDone grant, 2024 · $10k
- BJBF Jones Memorial Libraryone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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.
The Library is a center for informational resources and services, promoting literacy and lifelong learning. The Library has achieved the status of Family Place Library, a national initiative to encourage the beginning stages of literacy in…
A welcoming community center that provides information and equitable access to space, collections, materials, programs and services that enrich the quality of life and facilitate lifelong learning.
Monessen Public Library provides collection facilities and services to the people of the Monessen community, which assists them in fulfilling their need for information, research sources, and cultural enrichment.
The Carnegie Library of Homesteads mission is to provide programs and facilities that enhance learning, wellness, and quality of life within and outside of the Steel Valley. Today, we serve over 17,000 residents of Munhall, Homestead, West…
A nonprofit organization that provides books, videos, periodicals and other educational materials for area residents to use and borrow. The Organization also provides a wide range of programs for the community.
To provide informational, educational and recreational resources which inspire personal and community enlightenment and enhance quality of life in our community. Our vision is that the library will be a chosen destination for the community…
To ensure the preservation and transmission of society's knowledge, history and culture, and to provide the people of Millvale with free and open access to information for education, recreation and reference.
Bridgeville Public Library operates as a public library that provides books, videos, periodicals and other educational materials for area residents to use and borrow.
The Murrysville Community Library serves the communitys evolving informational needs. We connect people with ideas and information, promote lifelong learning, and help build the community.
The mission of the Baldwin Borough Public Library is to provide easily accessible materials, services, and facilities to help the members of our diverse community successfully meet their evolving personal needs.
The mission of the Parkesburg Free Library is to provide the Parkesburg Borough and surrounding communities with book materials and information necessary for personal growth and life long learning. We seek to guide community and business…
Bethel Park Public Library provides services to inform, enrich, and inspire the community through the lending of materials, programs, classes, and services such as free computer access, homebound delivery of materials, and outreach…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Ignites Pittsburgh and the most unlike its peers is Stay off the Steets Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 20 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
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 Laughlin Memorial Library ↗
- Who funds MARY & ALEXANDER LAUGHLIN CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds MERAKEY ALLEGHENY VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds New Brighton Public Library ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER OF BEAVER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Stay off the Steets Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds BF Jones Memorial Library ↗
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Laughlin Memorial Inc 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.
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.
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