· Private foundation
Mountain Laurel 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 $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL | $31,500 |
| ALLEGHENY-BLUE RIDGE ALLIANCE | $9,932 |
| CHARLOTTESVILLE WALDORF SCHOOL | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SBSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2024 · $426k · revenue +2%
Foxcroft School8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +82%- TGTEMPLE GWATHMEY STEEPLECHASE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- DMDELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- TATHE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -58%
- PMPAUSE MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -33%
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.
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…
To foster an appreciation of the quality and diversity of life on cape ann, past and present; to further the knowledge and enjoyment of cape ann history and art; to collect and preserve significant information and artifacts; and to…
To support healthy communities and a healthy earth, the institute for conservation leadership strengthens leaders, organizations, coalitions and networks.
To create memorable guest experiences which promote actions to help save species, habitats, and the communities who share those same landscapes
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
Northern neck land conservancy's mission is to preserve the rural heritage of the northern neck and essex county by conserving their lands, water, economies and culture for future generations. the land conservancy assists landowners who…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delaware Nature Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Longwood Gardens Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 54 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 SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Foxcroft School ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds RAPPAHANNOCK PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE GWATHMEY STEEPLECHASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY-BLUE RIDGE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTESVILLE WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PAUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD CARE AND LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds TOWER HILL SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kid Pan Alley ↗
- Who funds LONGWOOD GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CHARLOTTESVILLE ALBEMARLE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE NATURE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Northern Piedmont Community Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · The Community Foundation Inc · The William and Mary Greve Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Stratus Foundation · Fagus Foundation · Kookaburra Foundation · Quantitative Foundation · Janet Stone Jones Foundation
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 Mountain Laurel 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.
- Delaware Nature Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
- Tower Hill School Association — 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.