How much does Laurel Charitable Trust give?

Laurel Charitable Trust reported 33 grants totaling $62,327 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Laurel Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (28%), Education (24%), International (17%).

Who are Laurel Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Women's Bakery Inc ($102k), Sweet Briar Institute ($49k), North Carolina Outward Bound School ($48k).

Does Laurel Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Laurel Charitable Trust 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 Laurel Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc, Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Amg Charitable Gift Foundation.

Where is Laurel Charitable Trust based?

Laurel Charitable Trust is based in PA.

Laurel Charitable Trust

Laurel Charitable Trust at a glance

· 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.

$62k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$20k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$165kEducation$146kInternational$104kHealth$59kRecreation & Sports$23kArts & Culture$22kPhilanthropy$22kFood & Nutrition$16kOther$0

02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k31 grants · $32k
$10k–50k2 grants · $30k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$25k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
LITTLE TRAVERSE BAY HUMANE SOCIETY	$1,000
NEW CANAAN SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND	$1,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY PADE CHAPTER	$1,000
SPRING ISLAND TRUST	$1,000
HARBOR SPRINGS CHAMBER FOUNDATION	$1,000
LOWER MERION CONSERVANCY	$1,000
KATE SVITEK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$548k · 54 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$548k

$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+19%

Still filing today

70%

58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureAnimalsHealthInternationalOther

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

TW
THE WOMEN'S BAKERY INC
7× · 2018–2025 · $102k · revenue +198%
SB
SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE
5× · 2017–2024 · $49k · revenue +2%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $44k · revenue +43%

Funded once

SI
SPRING ISLAND TRUST FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2017 · $11k
CO
CITY OF HARBOR SPRINGS
one grant, 2023 · $8k
MC
MICHIGAN CIVIC EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +325%

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.

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

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…

Environment

Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

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.

Environment

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

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…

Environment

The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals

Conservation Legacy

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…

Youth Development

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy

We improve quality of life by enhancing and stewarding pittsburgh's parks in partnership with the community.

Recreation & Sports

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 92 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/64

Grantees still filing

44/64

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$165,187Other$152,850International$104,000Education$93,250Health$55,000Arts & Culture$19,001Civil Rights$7,500

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.

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.

Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation IncDE22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Laurel Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laurel Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report 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.

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More from the funding graph

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