· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAURENS COUNTY MEMORIAL HOME | $15,000 |
| LAURENS COUNTY FIRST STEPS | $10,000 |
| FIRST METHODIST-FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| LET'S SADDLE UP INC | $10,000 |
| CAMPING MINISTRIES OF THE CAROLINAS | $8,000 |
| LAURENS COUNTY SAFE HOME | $6,000 |
| RIZE PREVENTION | $5,000 |
| UPSTATE PREGNANCY CENTER | $5,000 |
| C4 MINISTRIES OF LAURENS | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF LAURENS COUNTY | $5,000 |
| UNITED MINISTRIES OF CLINTON | $4,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS (PIEDMOUNT AGENCY O | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN LEGION POST 25 | $4,000 |
| LC 4H ADVISORY COMMITTEE | $3,000 |
| LAURENS COUNTY MUSEUM | $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 (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 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 +54% since the first grant, against +35% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- BTBRIDGING THE GAP ADVOCACYone grant, 2024 · $9k · 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.
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.
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 26 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 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 LAURENS COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RIZE Prevention Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED MINISTRIES OF CLINTON ↗
- Who funds LAURENS COUNTY MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Laurens County Fair Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laurens County Fair Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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