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Laybel Family 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.

$881k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$1.3MEducation$987kInternational$850kPublic Benefit$748kHealth$600kRecreation & Sports$443kFood & Nutrition$411kEnvironment$398kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $231k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $650k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MI$125,000
MICHIGAN ADVOCACY PROGRAM$100,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE$100,000
USA FOR UNHCR$75,000
ACLU FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN$50,000
CENTER FOR MICHIGAN$50,000
FARMINGTON FRIENDS OF PARKS$50,000
COUNT MI VOTE EDUCATION FUND$50,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$50,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$43,000
PROPUBLICA$40,000
GLEANERS$40,000
MICHIGAN NATURE ASSOCIATION$33,000
MICHIGAN TRAILS AND GREENWAYS ASSOC$30,000
HIAS$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FREEDOM HOUSE: $2k → 21%FREEDOM HOUSE: $2k → 21%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $2k → 17%JARC: $2k → 8%JARC: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.8M · 71 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

71 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
18

Total granted

$5.8M
$157k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+46%

Still filing today

51%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $751k · revenue +102%
  • CM
    COUNT MI VOTE EDUCATION FUND
    7× · 2019–2025 · $432k · revenue +592%
  • United States Association for UNHCR
    8× · 2017–2025 · $339k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • TM
    The Michigan Center for Civic Education
    one grant, 2024 · $56k · revenue +2%
  • IF
    INTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY SE MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
2
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
5
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
6
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
7
Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment
8
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
9
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
10
The Mitre Corporation

The primary exempt purpose of the mitre corporation is to conduct scientific research activities in the public interest that ensure the safety and security of the united states, enabling solutions and decisions related to complex…

Science & Tech
11
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
12
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 94 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
35/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACLU FOUNDATION OF MICHIGAN: $564,000 · OtherACLU FOUNDATION OF MICHIGANPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MI: $354,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MIFARMINGTON FRIENDS OF PARKS: $346,954 · OtherFARMINGTON FRIENDS OF PARKSTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $183,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $180,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODIndividual grant recipient: $125,000 · OtherPRO PUBLICA INC: $90,000 · OtherMichigan Advocacy Program: $100,000 · Other+60 more: $673,965 · Other+60 moreWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $985,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN…+1 more: $1,750 · EducationUnited States Association for UNHCR: $338,500 · InternationalUnited States A…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $258,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL…HIAS INC: $185,500 · InternationalHIAS INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $39,000 · International+9 more: $52,150 · International+9 moreAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $750,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVI…COUNT MI VOTE EDUCATION FUND: $432,000 · Public BenefitCOUNT MI VO…THE CENTER FOR MICHIGAN: $225,000 · Public BenefitTHE CENTER …GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $367,000 · Food & NutritionFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $44,000 · Food & NutritionMICHIGAN NATURE ASSOCIATION: $149,500 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $17,500 · EnvironmentThe Stewardship Network: $13,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $11,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $9,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $8,500 · Environment
Other$2,616,919Education$986,750International$873,150Civil Rights$750,500Public Benefit$657,000Food & Nutrition$411,000Environment$209,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $985,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $750,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNT MI VOTE EDUCATION FUND: $432,000 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $367,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $338,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $258,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR MICHIGAN: $225,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetHIAS INC: $185,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $183,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMICHIGAN NATURE ASSOCIATION: $149,500 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Michigan Center for Civic Education: $56,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFORGOTTEN HARVEST INC: $44,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $39,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $21,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR FLINT: $16,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Stewardship Network: $13,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $8,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $6,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $4,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT PUBLIC MEDIA: $4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $3,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE DETROIT: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJARC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOTS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFARMINGTON FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE FOR ACCURACY IN MIDDLE EAST REPORTING IN AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COUNT MI VOTE EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds GLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds HIAS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds MICHIGAN NATURE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Michigan Advocacy Program ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Michigan Center for Civic Education ↗
  • Who funds FORGOTTEN HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds INTEGRITY FIRST FOR AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FLINT ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR HUMANISTIC JUDAISM ↗
  • Who funds The Stewardship Network ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗

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.

The Kresge FoundationCharles Stewart Mott …McGregor FundThe Fred & Barbara Er…Harry a and Margaret …DTE Energy FoundationCommunity Foundation …WK Kellogg FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
The Kresge FoundationMI17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Kresge Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · McGregor Fund · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Laybel Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Laybel Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • National Yiddish Book Center Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 94 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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