· Private foundation
Laughlin Memorial Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CENTER FOR HOPE | $15,000 |
| LIFESTEPS OF BEAVER COUNTY INC | $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 |
| BF JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| WE CARE FOOD KITCHEN | $3,000 |
| BADEN MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Laughlin Memorial Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laughlin Memorial Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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