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Lauring Charitable 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $154k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC NEAR EAST WELFARE | $22,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $22,000 |
| AID TO THE CHURCH IN NEED | $21,000 |
| THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS | $20,000 |
| SAINT PAUL DIOCESAN SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| VENERINI ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| NOTRE DAME ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| SAINT JOHNS HIGH SCHOOL | $8,000 |
| THE SUDAN RELIEF FUND | $8,000 |
| MCAULEY NAZARETH HOME FOR BOYS | $8,000 |
| PARTNERS IN CHARITY | $7,402 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS | $7,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 INC | $7,000 |
| VISITATION HOUSE INC | $7,000 |
| SAINT JUDE CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
90 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- AUASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $440k · revenue +9%
- VHVISITATION HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +82%
- M2Matthew 25 Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- HNHOLY NAME CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $6k
- SPSAINT PAUL DIOCESAN JRSR HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $4k
- DODIOCESE OF WORCESTER CELBREATIONone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To protect the unborn, share the gospel, and transform our communities one life at a time.
World vision, inc. is a christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. (continued on schedule…
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
The association of catholic colleges and universities, founded in 1899, serves as the collective voice of u.s catholic higher education. through programs and services, the association strengthens and promptes the catholic identity and…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is Emmanuel Communications Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 106 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 EMMANUEL COMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VISITATION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Matthew 25 Inc ↗
- Who funds MCAULEY NAZARETH INC ↗
- Who funds SUDAN RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN MISSIONARIES OF OUR LADY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
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: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · The Fletcher Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · The Spillane Charitable Foundation · David R Grenon Family Foundation · The Charles and Mary Crossed Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Sacred Family Causes Foundation · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Lauring Charitable 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.
- Mcauley Nazareth Inc — 74% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Assumption University — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor 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.