· Private foundation
Laurel Foundation
Its FY2018 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 FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- $50k–250k1 grant · $77k
- $250k+1 grant · $4.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JPMORGAN CHARITABLE GIVING FUND PROGRAM | $4,658,703 |
| JPMORGAN CHARITABLE GIVING FUND PROGRAM | $76,846 |
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 (FY17–17, $176k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
To eliminate sub-standard housing and homelessness from lapeer county.
Provide shelter and basic needs for homeless people. while fostering self-respect and human dignity, samaritan house will encourage the residents' efforts to find employment and housing.
Opening doors out of poverty by providing shelter, food, clothing and education, and support for the homeless and the poor, in the lawrence, massachusetts area.
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
Habitat is a christian housing ministry that works with people in need to improve the conditions in which they live by providing affordable housing.
Lazarus house is an emergency food pantry serving those people who have food insecurity in the greater wildwood, nj area. we provide food, some toiletries and personal items to many families and individuals during the year.
The organization's mission is to house, provide supportive services and an avenue to help break the cycle of homelessness. the organization is committed to providing an environment that meets a person's basic needs in an atmosphere where…
To build decent, affordable homes in partnership with families in need.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. maumee valley habitat for humanity adheres…
The bath area food bank's mission is to feed food insecure families and individuals with dignity and respect by supplying home cooked meals and a grocery store type atmosphere where client's chose the items they require. it's service area…
Service agency providing comprehensive social services and community outreach programs for the entire family. st. vincent's house serves the disadvantaged, underserved and working poor population of the greater galveston community with…
To eliminate poverty housing and homelessness by working in partnership with people in need. Using donated funds and materials, Habitat volunteers build or rehabilitate homes and sell them at cost to hardworking, low-income families with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Matthews House Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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 MUTUAL GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GRACE PLACE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds BATAVIA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc ↗
- Who funds BATAVIA FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Laurel Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- St Matthews House Inc — 0% 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.