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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.

$44k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
38
Organizations funded FY2024
24%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$9,932
Largest grant, FY2025
$31,500
Organizations funded a year
19 to 38
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Mountain Laurel Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionHealthEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$44k0%
FY202438$178k24%
FY202333$150k15%
FY202233$103k18%
FY202127$132k26%
FY202020$112k0%
FY201921$70k14%
FY201819$65k16%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$517kHealth$313kArts & Culture$90kReligion$74kEnvironment$69kAnimals$57kPhilanthropy$34kFood & Nutrition$22kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MA
IA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DE
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($469k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mountain Laurel Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSweet Briar Institute: $426,405 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFoxcroft School: $32,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRappahannock Pantry Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDelaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTemple Gwathmey Steeplechase Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetThe Richmond Ballet: $16,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBrandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFocused Ultrasound Foundation: $14,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAllegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance: $13,432 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCharlottesville Waldorf School: $12,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNantucket Conservation Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetStroud Water Research Center: $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Civil War Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Piedmont Environmental Council: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPause Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTower Hill School Association: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Catalina Island Conservancy: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Child Care and Learning Center: $9,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetKid Pan Alley: $8,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetLongwood Gardens Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGrant Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Volunteers of Charlottesville Albemarle: $7,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDelaware Nature Society Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNantucket Atheneum Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHighland School Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the National World War II Memorial Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFauquier Free Clinic Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetShenandoah National Park Trust: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTuckernuck Land Trust Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSocially Responsible Agriculture Project Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Discovery Museum Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMonacan Nation Cultural Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlmanack Arts Colony Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Women's Initiative: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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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.

Charlottesville Area Community FoundationVA21.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Mountain Laurel Foundation

How much does Mountain Laurel Foundation give?
Mountain Laurel Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $44,432 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Mountain Laurel Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Health (25%), Arts & Culture (7%).
Who are Mountain Laurel Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sweet Briar Institute ($426k), Foxcroft School ($32k), Rappahannock Pantry Inc ($20k).
Does Mountain Laurel Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mountain Laurel 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 Mountain Laurel Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charlottesville Area Community Foundation, Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation.
Where is Mountain Laurel Foundation based?
Mountain Laurel Foundation is based in DE.

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 54 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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