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Laurens County Fair Foundation
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 FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAURENS COUNTY MEMORIAL HOME | $15,000 |
| FIRST METHODIST-FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| LET'S SADDLE UP INC | $10,000 |
| LAURENS COUNTY FIRST STEPS | $10,000 |
| CAMPING MINISTRIES OF THE CAROLINAS | $8,000 |
| LAURENS COUNTY SAFE HOME | $6,000 |
| C4 MINISTRIES OF LAURENS | $5,000 |
| RIZE PREVENTION | $5,000 |
| UPSTATE PREGNANCY CENTER | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF LAURENS COUNTY | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS (PIEDMOUNT AGENCY O | $4,000 |
| UNITED MINISTRIES OF CLINTON | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST 25 | $4,000 |
| LC 4H ADVISORY COMMITTEE | $3,000 |
| LAURENS COUNTY MUSEUM | $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 (FY24–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +54% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 11 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $69k 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
- HOHOSPICE OF LAURENS COUNTY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $38k · revenue 0%
- LCLAURENS COUNTY FIRST STEPS2× · 2024–2025 · $15k
- LSLET S SADDLE UP INC2× · 2024–2025 · $11k · revenue +54% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- LRLAKELAND REGION YMCA OF SCone grant, 2024 · $19k
- FMFIRST METHODIST CHURCH FOOD BANKone grant, 2024 · $10k
- SSSTRAIGHT STREET YOUTH CENTERone grant, 2024 · $9k
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 animal shelter is operated for the purpose of roviding shelter and food to homeless animals until suitable homes are located.
Provide community support services for indiviudals sturggling with substance abuse disorders
General assistance to help families experiencing homelessness and low-income families achieve sustaiinable independence through a community-based response.
To make laurens county a better place to live and work.
Laurel historical societys primary purpose is to preserve artifacts of archaeological nature and to educate the public on the towns history.
The primary purpose of the Lawrence County Humane Society is to relieve pain and suffering among animals to prevent cruelty to animals and to extend humane education to the community
Elderly nursing home care
To spay and neuter animals and provide shelter
Comprehensive, stay-in-school programs which result in an increase in the number of children who continue their education at least through high school graduation and are able to take their place in the workforce and community.
Our organization exists to create positive cultural change in order to reduce Substance Use Disorder among youth and adults in Lawrence County, TN. We use a multifaceted approach of prevention education, de-stigmatization, and community…
Provide residential group care for children who may be homeless, abused, neglected or troubled.
To reduce the over population of unwanted pets with a spay and neuter program, assist in the rescue of pets and to protect the well being of pets.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Laurens County Safe Homes and the most unlike its peers is Rize Prevention 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 26 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 HOSPICE OF LAURENS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LET S SADDLE UP INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGING THE GAP ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds CAMPING MINISTRIES OF THE CAROLINAS ↗
- Who funds LAURENS COUNTY SAFE HOMES ↗
- Who funds RIZE Prevention Inc ↗
- Who funds LAURENS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES OF CLINTON ↗
- Who funds LAURENS COUNTY MUSEUM 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.
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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 Laurens County Fair 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 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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