· Private foundation
Laurel Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE WOMEN'S BAKERY | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE CONSERVANCY | $3,500 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BRYN MAWR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY | $1,827 |
| KATE SVITEK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NEW CANAAN SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND | $1,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY PADE CHAPTER | $1,000 |
| SPRING ISLAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| LOWER MERION CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| HARBOR SPRINGS CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TWTHE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC7× · 2018–2025 · $102k · revenue +198%
- SBSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE5× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +2%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $44k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- SISPRING ISLAND TRUST FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $11k
- COCITY OF HARBOR SPRINGSone grant, 2023 · $8k
- MCMICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +325%
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 organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Conservation legacy engages future leaders who protect, restore, and enhance our nation's lands through community-based service.in 2024, conservation legacy engaged 2,524 participants who completed over 1.5 million service hours on public…
We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lucky Paw Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
64 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. 64 of the 92 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 THE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING ISLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BOYS LATIN OF PHILADELPHIA CHARTER SCHOO ↗
- Who funds PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Harvest International ↗
- Who funds SPRING ISLAND TRUST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Little Traverse Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds KATE SVITEK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT COUNTY OPEN LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE MITT WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HAVERFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds LUCKY PAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
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: Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Sa Ming Foundation · The Offield Family Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Frey Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Lilly Christy Busch Hermann Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott 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 Laurel Charitable Trust 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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.