Massachusetts · Private foundation
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.
- $261k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $22,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 65
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Lauring Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 46 | $261k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $234k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $254k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $251k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 58 | $228k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 63 | $218k | 2% |
| FY2019 | 64 | $201k | 3% |
| FY2018 | 65 | $326k | 3% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emmanuel Communications Inc | $492,778 | 7 | 77% |
| Assumption University | $440,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Catholic Relief Services | $200,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Aid to the Church in Need Inc | $198,000 | 9 | n/a |
| St Johns High School | $151,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Catholic Near East Welfare Assoc Inc | $111,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Notre Dame Academy | $70,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Venerini Academy Inc | $41,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Diocese of Worcester | $33,245 | 6 | n/a |
| Visitation House Inc | $26,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 57 recipients with no EIN on record ($448k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lauring Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 36 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Lauring Charitable Foundation
- How much does Lauring Charitable Foundation give?
- Lauring Charitable Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $261,102 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lauring Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (38%), Education (33%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Lauring Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Emmanuel Communications Inc ($493k), Assumption University ($440k), Catholic Relief Services ($200k).
- Does Lauring Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lauring Charitable Foundation 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 Lauring Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc, The Fletcher Foundation, The George I Alden Trust.
- Where is Lauring Charitable Foundation based?
- Lauring Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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